Ecological sustainability assessment of building glass industry in China based on the point of view of raw material emergy and chemical composition

Zhang, Junxue; Zhang, He; Asutosh, Ashish; Sun, Nameng; Fu, Xiaohui; Wang, Hairuo; Li, Xindi

doi:10.1007/s11356-022-24763-2

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“…As a methodological approach for evaluating the ecological sustainability of various systems, Emergy theory can be applied to assess multiple types of systems such as agriculture, urban systems, industry, materials, regions, and buildings [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. The indicators for emergy assessment include environmental load ratio(ELR), emergy yield ratio(EYR), and emergy sustainability indicator(ESI).…”

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confidence: 99%

Investigation on Sustainable analysis of Building System from LCA-Emergy-Carbon emission perspective

Ye,

Zhang,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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Currently, in the context of carbon neutrality, research on the ecological sustainability of building systems holds significant importance. This paper evaluates the sustainability of building systems by integrating the concepts of ecological emergy theory and carbon emissions calculation with systems engineering principles. The results indicate that the operational phase of buildings is the key contributor (accounting for approximately 79.6% of the total emergy and 97.9% of the overall carbon emissions), representing the highest amounts of emergy and carbon emissions within the entire building system. To enhance the ecological sustainability of building systems, the exploration and consideration of renewable energy subsystems have been conducted. This contributes to achieving low-carbon sustainable building practices and helps mitigate global climate issues.

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Section: Emergy Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigation on Sustainable analysis of Building System from LCA-Emergy-Carbon emission perspective

Ye,

Zhang,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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“…Sustainable emergy evaluation of building material systems is a popular research direction that includes material production processes as well as labor and transportation inputs. As building materials are one of the main components of the building system, research in this direction is valuable [22][23][24][25][26][27]. The combination of Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology and building systems has brought more accurate research results to sustainable architecture, and the fully visualized results provide designers and engineers with a more intuitive sense, improving the ecological level of the entire building system [28,29].…”

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confidence: 99%

The Sustainability Study and Exploration in the Building Commercial Complex System Based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)–Emergy–Carbon Emission Analysis

et al. 2023

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This paper focuses on the sustainable exploration of building systems, which combines ecological concepts and low-carbon designs for a comprehensive sustainability assessment investigation. The study employed the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)-Emergy and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)-Carbon emission methods to discuss a range of topics, including the main contributing factors, sustainability index verification, sensitivity analysis, and potential improvement measures. From an ecological sustainability perspective, the results indicate that the building operation stage plays a critical role, accounting for approximately 45% of the entire emergy in the building commercial complex. The sustainable index (ESI) is 0.354, which is below the standard of 1. Moreover, the building operation stage also significantly contributes to carbon emissions, particularly in the 50th anniversary of operation. Based on these findings, the study recommends two potential strategies to improve the ecological state and low-carbon design which involve the use of renewable energy and carbon sink improvement, respectively.

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“…This study applies two methods: ecological emergy analysis and carbon-emission estimation. Emergy analysis is an approach used to analyze systems from an ecologicaleconomic perspective and has been widely applied in various fields, including urban areas [7], water treatment [8], industry [9], materials [10,11], ecology [12], and economics [13]. Additionally, building systems also constitute an important research area in the field of emergy analysis.…”

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A Study on Ecological Emergy and Carbon-Emissions-Coupling Sustainability of Building Systems

Wang,

Yan,

Zhang

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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In the face of the increasingly deteriorating global environment, the sustainability of building systems has become a major research topic. This paper presents sustainability research on large-scale building cases from the perspectives of ecological emergy value and carbon emissions. Specifically, by calculating the emergy value and carbon emissions throughout the entire life cycle of the building system, a quantitative analysis of sustainability based on the LCA–emergy–carbon-emissions framework is completed. The results indicate that from the perspectives of both emergy value (over 80%) and carbon emissions (over 90%), the operational stage and the building-material-production stage are the controlling factors. Retrofit design strategies help enhance the sustainability performance of the building system, but different types of design strategies have different effects. The landscape-transformation-design strategy (strategy A) significantly improves the ecological sustainability of the building system, the equipment-improvement strategy (strategy B) helps reduce the carbon emissions of the building system, while the infrastructure-renewal strategy not only has a weaker impact on sustainability improvement but also generates the highest carbon emissions. Additionally, with the aim of controlling carbon emissions, the integration of solar clean energy sources contributes to the overall sustainability of the building system, providing references for architects and building managers.

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Ecological sustainability assessment of building glass industry in China based on the point of view of raw material emergy and chemical composition

Cited by 10 publications

References 78 publications

Investigation on Sustainable analysis of Building System from LCA-Emergy-Carbon emission perspective

Investigation on Sustainable analysis of Building System from LCA-Emergy-Carbon emission perspective

The Sustainability Study and Exploration in the Building Commercial Complex System Based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)–Emergy–Carbon Emission Analysis

A Study on Ecological Emergy and Carbon-Emissions-Coupling Sustainability of Building Systems

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