Sustainable Building Materials Guided by Ecological Wisdom to Combat Environmental Issues

Li, Mengmeng; Achal, Varenyam

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-0571-9_10

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“…For Li and Achal [38], sustainability in the construction industry must be addressed not only in projects and works, but also considering the raw materials involved, including their capture, transformation, and the utilization process. That is why it is important to think and plan the entire process for the long term.…”

Section: Environmental Sustainabilitymentioning

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Building Rehabilitation: A Sustainable Strategy for the Preservation of the Built Environment

Oliveira,

Lanzinha,

Kern

2024

Sustainability

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Building rehabilitation and sustainability must go hand in hand to ensure the preservation of the built environment and environmentally conscious practices. Construction is one of the most polluting industries with a high impact on the carbon footprint. Thus, building rehabilitation appears as an effective strategy to reduce this impact, promoting the reuse of more efficient materials and technologies. This study focuses on the rehabilitation of existing buildings as a sustainable strategy and presents the quantitative profile of academic publications in the last 10 years, showing the main themes studied. The results of the sample surveyed on the Scopus platform show an increasing number of publications in the period surveyed (2012–2023), which shows a growing academic interest in the topic. It is possible to see that the publication trend line is ascending and that the largest number of articles investigates building rehabilitation, followed by the rehabilitation of school buildings, energy issues, rehabilitation methods, materials technology, water issues, and sustainability related to rehabilitation.

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Section: Environmental Sustainabilitymentioning

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Building Rehabilitation: A Sustainable Strategy for the Preservation of the Built Environment

Oliveira,

Lanzinha,

Kern

2024

Sustainability

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“…Ecological construction is construction that creates healthy conditions for life and sustainable housing development by building more eco-friendly constructions [44,45]. The completion, operation, disposal and restoration of ecological constructions also help protect the environment.…”

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Analysis of the Energy Balance of Constructions Based on Wood during Their Use in Connection with CO2 Emissions

Švajlenka

Kozlovská

2020

Energies

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In the construction industry, it is the material production phase and the use phase of buildings’ life cycles that represent the greatest environmental burden. The presented research focused on wood constructions during their use phase. The primary objective of the research was to determine the amount of CO2 produced during the operation of specific wood constructions in connection with the energy demand for their heating. A correlation analysis of selected parameters revealed a statistically significant correlation between heating medium type and energy demand for heating (p = −0.5773) and between heating medium type and amount of CO2 produced (p = 0.4796). A more detailed analysis showed that, in terms of the average energy demand for heating, the column constructions were the most efficient among the compared construction systems, regardless of the energy standard. Similar findings were obtained for annual CO2 production in connection with the average energy demand for heating. The only difference was that the panel and log constructions exhibited almost identical parameters, which came as a surprise to some extent. The column constructions turned out to be the most efficient again, regardless of their energy standard. The analysis that focused on the heating medium type revealed statistically significant differences among the heating medium types in energy demand for heating (p < 0.0001). The constructions that used electricity for heating were the most energy-efficient. When the individual characteristics of the different heating media in relation to CO2 production were taken into account, the constructions that were heated using biomass were the least polluting. The constructions heated using electricity and gas showed a significantly greater deviation.

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Sustainable Building Materials Guided by Ecological Wisdom to Combat Environmental Issues

Cited by 2 publications

References 45 publications

Building Rehabilitation: A Sustainable Strategy for the Preservation of the Built Environment

Building Rehabilitation: A Sustainable Strategy for the Preservation of the Built Environment

Analysis of the Energy Balance of Constructions Based on Wood during Their Use in Connection with CO2 Emissions

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