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Affordable construction towards sustainable buildings: review on embodied energy in building materials
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Autor/a:
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Cabeza, Luisa F.; Barreneche Güerisoli, Camila; Miró, Laia; Martínez, Mònica; Fernández Renna, Ana Inés; Urge-Vorsatz, Diana
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Affordable construction has identified low embodied energy in
materials as key issue. This review paper shows that even
though there is a lack of research on this topic, embodied
energy and carbon are studied in the context of buildings and
construction materials. Moreover, comparison between
studies is not possible due to the different assumptions used by
the researchers, due to the fact that most studies are focused in
a given location, and also due to the great variation between
data presented in the embodied energy databases available.
This paper shows different studies published in scientific
journal papers and carried out around the world on the
accounting of embodied energy in building materials. The
paper includes the boundary of each of this study, including the
location, type of material or building studied, and the
conclusions found. Moreover, the paper discusses the
definition of embodied energy and the significance of this
concept in buildings.
The work is partially funded by the Spanish Government (ENE2011-28269-C03-02) and the European Union (COST Action TU0802). The authors would like to thank the Catalan Government for the quality accreditation given to their research group GREA (2009 SGR 534) and research group DIOPMA (2009 SGR 645). |
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(c) Elsevier, 2013
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Elsevier
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