Embodied carbon emissions of office building: A case study of China's 78 office buildings

Luo, Zhixing; Yang, Liu; Liu, Jiaping

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2015.09.018

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“…However, there has been rarely research on railway station buildings focusing on embodied emissions, which can be understood by analyzing other building categories. For instance, Luo et al [8] analyzed and calculated the CO 2 emissions of 78 office buildings in the construction materialization stage, obtaining results of 327kgCO 2 /m 2 on average (building lifetime is considered to be 50 years). A prediction formula using steel reinforcement, concrete, and wall materials as independent variables was found to predict CO 2 emissions.…”

Section: Ghg Emission Reduction Strategies For Buildingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…HSRS, known as the gateway to the city, will gradually become the most common type of railway stations, and an increasing amount of constructions will likely promote an upward trend in energy and resource demand in the immediate future. Due to increasingly stringent energy requirements and improved energy efficiency, the embodied GHG emissions from building materials are gaining significance [8][9][10][11]. As a major consumer of societal energy and national resources, it is necessary to conduct evaluative research on HSRS buildings in the scope of embodied GHG emissions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As a major consumer of societal energy and national resources, it is necessary to conduct evaluative research on HSRS buildings in the scope of embodied GHG emissions. Several studies have focused on the energy consumption and carbon emissions from multiple building typologies internationally, including residential, office, school, and hotel buildings in China [8,9], Norway [10,11], Spain [12] and the United Kingdom [13]. More attention should be paid to the environmental performance of HSRS buildings, which also needs to be drastically improved.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Reduction Strategies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from High-Speed Railway Station Buildings in a Cold Climate Zone of China

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Implementing China's emission reduction regulations requires a design approach that integrates specific architectural and functional properties of railway stations with low greenhouse gas (GHG) emission. This article analyzes life cycle GHG emissions related to materials production, replacement and operational energy use to identify design drivers and reduction strategies implemented in high-speed railway station (HSRS) buildings. A typical middle-sized HSRS building in a cold climate zone in China is studied. A detailed methodology was proposed for the development and assessment of emission reduction strategies through life cycle assessment (LCA), combined with a building information model (BIM). The results reveal that operational emissions contribute the most to total GHG emissions, constituting approximately 81% while embodied material emissions constitute 19%, with 94 kgCO 2eq /m 2 ·a and 22 kgCO 2eq /m 2 ·a respectively. Optimizing space can reduce operational GHG emissions and service life extension of insulation materials contributes to a 15% reduction in embodied GHG emissions. In all three scenarios, the reduction potentials of space, envelope, and material type optimization were 28.2%, 13.1%, and 3.5% and that measures for reduced life cycle emissions should focus on space in the early stage of building design. This study addresses the research gap by investigating the life cycle GHG emissions from HSRS buildings and reduction strategies to help influence the design decisions of similar projects and large space public buildings which are critical for emission reduction on a larger scale.

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“…This factor depends on both emission time and absolute emission volume (Luo et al, 2016). There is the traditional way to calculate the EBE for all building types.…”

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Optimizing the life cycle of an office building at semiarid region

Pakmehr¹,

Karagüler²

2017

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Energy consumption by occupants during utilization phase concerns the increase of global warming potential and a shortage of energy resources. Energy consumption in an effective way decreases the risk of global warming. Use of materials with high embodied energy and embodied carbon in building components may improve the energy performance of the building, but it can ameliorate global warming. The issue of Life Cycle is quite new in the Middle East, so is it effective or does it work in developing countries. One of the goals of this study is to use three different wall types in a two-story office with close embodied energy and U-value (overall heat transfer coefficient) and compare the performance of each wall in the building from the Life Cycle point of view. Subsequently, analyzing the importance of other factors such as embodied carbon and transportation in choosing appropriate material in the construction sector. According to this study, even in countries like Iran (''which holds the world's fourth-largest proved crude oil reserves and the world's second-largest natural gas reserves'') with very low amount of database about the embodied energy, the right material should be chosen to reduce the fuel consumption and CO 2 emission.

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“…However, research reveals that previous tools have two limitations. First, most current CO2 emissions assessment tools focus on assessing operational CO2 emissions based on energy consumption during the operation stage [30][31][32][33][34]. Second, most of the LCCO2 emissions assessment tools directly use the bill of quantities (BOQ) calculated after the construction of a building begins [35,36].…”

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Building Simplified Life Cycle CO2 Emissions Assessment Tool (B‐SCAT) to Support Low‐Carbon Building Design in South Korea

Roh

Tae

2016

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Abstract:Various tools that assess life cycle CO 2 (LCCO 2 ) emissions are currently being developed throughout the international community. However, most building LCCO 2 emissions assessment tools use a bill of quantities (BOQ), which is calculated after starting a building's construction. Thus, it is difficult to assess building LCCO 2 emissions during the early design phase, even though this capability would be highly effective in reducing LCCO 2 emissions. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to develop a Building Simplified LCCO 2 emissions Assessment Tool (B-SCAT) for application in the early design phase of low-carbon buildings in South Korea, in order to facilitate efficient decision-making. To that end, in the construction stage, the BOQ and building drawings were analyzed, and a database of quantities and equations describing the finished area were conducted for each building element. In the operation stage, the "Korea Energy Census Report" and the "Korea Building Energy Efficiency Rating Certification System" were analyzed, and three kinds of models to evaluate CO 2 emissions were proposed. These analyses enabled the development of the B-SCAT. A case study compared the assessment results performed using the B-SCAT against a conventional assessment model based on the actual BOQ of the evaluated building. These values closely approximated the conventional assessment results with error rates of less than 3%.

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Embodied carbon emissions of office building: A case study of China's 78 office buildings

Cited by 137 publications

References 30 publications

Reduction Strategies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from High-Speed Railway Station Buildings in a Cold Climate Zone of China

Reduction Strategies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from High-Speed Railway Station Buildings in a Cold Climate Zone of China

Optimizing the life cycle of an office building at semiarid region

Building Simplified Life Cycle CO2 Emissions Assessment Tool (B‐SCAT) to Support Low‐Carbon Building Design in South Korea

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