Environmental Impacts During The Operational Phase Of Residential Buildings
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Environmental Impacts During The Operational Phase Of Residential Buildings
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Author : Inge Blom
language : en
Publisher: IOS Press
Release Date : 2010
Environmental Impacts During The Operational Phase Of Residential Buildings written by Inge Blom and has been published by IOS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Architecture categories.
To date, the focus in the field of sustainable building has been on new building design. However, existing residential buildings inflict great environmental burden through three causes: continuous energy consumption, regular building maintenance and replacements. This publication analyses and compares these three causes of environmental burden and shows that material resources needed for replacements generally have a limited potential to reduce environmental impact. Reducing energy consumption for climate control and electrical appliances is much more effective. According to the author, sustainable measures should be tested for shifts in the kind of environmental impact caused due to the use of alternative types of energy resources and altered material quantities. The sustainability of the electricity supply is essential to decrease the total environmental impact of the residential building stock.
Environmental Impacts During The Operational Phase Of Residential Buildings
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Author : Ronald Howland
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-01-30
Environmental Impacts During The Operational Phase Of Residential Buildings written by Ronald Howland and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-30 with categories.
This book analyses and compares these three causes of environmental burden and shows that material resources needed for replacements generally have a limited potential to reduce environmental impact. Reducing energy consumption for climate control and electrical appliances is much more effective. According to the author, sustainable measures should be tested for shifts in the kind of environmental impact caused due to the use of alternative types of energy resources and altered material quantities. The sustainability of the electricity supply is essential to decrease the total environmental impact of the residential building stock.
Environmental Impacts During The Operational Phase Of Residential Buildings
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Author : Edwin Collins
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2015-05-20
Environmental Impacts During The Operational Phase Of Residential Buildings written by Edwin Collins and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-20 with categories.
However, current personal structures cause great ecological pressure through three causes: ongoing power intake, regular developing maintenance and alternatives. This book studies and analyzes these three causes of ecological pressure and shows that content sources needed for alternatives generally have a limited potential to reduce ecological effect. Reducing power intake for heating and cooling and electrical equipment is much more effective. According to the author, maintainable measures should be examined for changes in the kind of ecological effect caused due to the use of different sorts of your sources and changed content amounts. The durability of the power supply is essential to decrease the total ecological effect of the personal developing stock.
Environmental Impact Assessment Of Buildings
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Author : Wahidul Biswas
language : en
Publisher: MDPI
Release Date : 2020-02-05
Environmental Impact Assessment Of Buildings written by Wahidul Biswas and has been published by MDPI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-05 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This Special Issue covers a wide range of areas—including building orientation, service life, use of photocatalytically active structures and PV facades, implications of transportation system, building types (i.e., high rise, multilevel, commercial, residential), life cycle assessment, and structural engineering—that need to be considered in the environmental impact assessment of buildings, and the chapters include case studies across the globe. Consideration of these strategies would help reduce energy and material consumption, environmental emissions, and waste generation associated with all phases of a building’s life cycle. Chapter 1 demonstrates that green star concrete exhibits the same structural properties as conventional concrete in Australia. Chapter 2 showed that the use of TiO2 as a photocatalyst on the surface of construction materials with a suitable stable binding agent, such as aggregates, would enable building walls to absorb NOx from air. This study found that TiO2 has the potential to reduce ambient concentrations of NOx from areas where this pollutant becomes concentrated under solar irradiation. Chapter 3 presents the life cycle assessment of architecturally integrated glass–glass photovoltaics in building facades to find the appropriate material composition for a multicolored PV façade offering improved environmental performance. Chapter 4 shows that urban office buildings lacking appropriate orientation experienced indoor overheating. Chapter 5 details four modeling approaches that were implemented to estimate buildings’ response towards load shedding. Chapter 6 covers the life cycle GHG emissions of high-rise residential housing block to discover opportunities for environmental improvement. Chapter 7 discusses an LCA framework that took into account variation in the service life of buildings associated with the use of different types of materials. Chapter 8 presents a useful data mining algorithm to conduct life cycle asset management in residential developments built on transport systems.
Life Cycle Environmetal Impact Assessment Of A Multi Storey Residential Building In Zmir
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Author : Arali Duygu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Life Cycle Environmetal Impact Assessment Of A Multi Storey Residential Building In Zmir written by Arali Duygu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
For a sustainable development, it is essential to improve the building stock and sector which are majorly affiliated with the negative impacts on environment. The analysis of current situation and establish the basic problems in order to decrease the environmental impacts of buildings. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a holistic and scientific method in the area of environmental impact assessment. While the LCA may be applied to individual building components or specified life cycle phases, it is also possible to assess the environmental impacts of a building from cradle to grave with an integrated approach toward whole life cycle. The purposes of this study are to evaluate the current position of the LCA method, which is a vital component of the sustainability assessment in building sector, and to make a quantitative assessment on the environmental impacts of multi-storey-mass housing which has the primary share of recent residential building stock in Turkey. One residential unit of a mass housing development in Izmir constructed at the last decade, at the edge of the expanding city boundary, was selected as the case object of this study. The life cycle of building is fundamentally examined in three phases, which are: pre-use phase, use phase and end-of-life phase. The Simapro software 7.3.3 and Ecoinvent 2.2, up-to-date database, were selected for the LCA simulation. In addition, as a local input to database, energy data for Turkey was created. As a result of this study, the environmental impacts during the life cycle of a multi-storey building residential unit have been ascertained and the life phases, building components and operational processes which have the heaviest impact on the environment have been determined.
Environmental And Human Impact Of Buildings
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Author : Ligia Moga
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-03-28
Environmental And Human Impact Of Buildings written by Ligia Moga and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-28 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Featuring research on topics such as low energy buildings' concepts, construction materials and technology, hybrid energy systems, energy balance, and wellbeing, this book meets the expectations of academicians, specialists and researchers in the field, along with the scholars seeking coverage on buildings, environmental and human impact. It presents an integrated approach to the buildings' energetic aspects, from the perspective of environmental impact, together with the indoor wellbeing. In this respect, the chapters include state of the art, case studies, as well as research results that validate the raised hypotheses. The book integrates topics related to buildings' performance, approached by researchers with different backgrounds within the civil engineering domain, i.e. achieved energetics performances, obstacles, restrictions and limitations issues within design and optimization processes, including the new perspectives in the buildings & energy sector.
Sustainable Living With Environmental Risks
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Author : Nobuhiro Kaneko
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-03-11
Sustainable Living With Environmental Risks written by Nobuhiro Kaneko and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-11 with Science categories.
We are not free from environmental risks that accompany the development of human societies. Modern economic development has accelerated environmental pollution, caused loss of natural habitats, and modified landscapes. These environmental changes have impacted natural systems: water and heat circulation, nutrient cycling, and biodiversity. These changes in natural systems degrade ecosystem services and subsequently increase environmental risks for humans. Environmental risks, therefore, are not only human health risks by pollution, climatic anomalies and natural disasters, but also degradation of ecosystem services on which most people are relying for their lives. We cannot entirely eliminate the risks, because it is not possible to attain zero impact on the environment, but we need to find a mechanism that minimizes environmental risks for human sustainably. This is the idea of the interdisciplinary framework of “environmental risk management” theory, which advocates harmony between economic development and environmental conservation. Based on this theory, the Sustainable Living with Environmental Risk (SLER) programme, adopted by the Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT) as one of its strategic programmes, has been training graduate students at the Yokohama National University, Japan, from 2009 to 2013 to become future environmental leaders who will take the initiative in reducing the level of environmental risks and in protecting natural resources in the developing nations of Asia and Africa. This book provides students and teachers of this new academic field with a comprehensive coverage of case studies of environmental risks and their practical management technologies not only in Japan but also in developing nations in Asia and Africa.
Comparative Analysis Of Sustainable Building Certification Tools
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Author : Stefanie Maria Madriz Mejía
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Comparative Analysis Of Sustainable Building Certification Tools written by Stefanie Maria Madriz Mejía and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
A big percentage of the environmental impacts caused by industry come from the construction sector. In Spain almost 30% of the total CO2 emissions come from the use of residential and non-residential buildings. Apart from the energy and water consumption of the operational stage of the building, the resource extraction and material manufacture stages must also be considered, as they represent between 25-30% of the total energy consumption of the building's life cycle1. Therefore a building as a single body represents a great impact in the environment, the amount of resources consumed and waste produced are excessive and, without any doubt, unsustainable. Under these considerations, this investigation intends to define the rehabilitation of buildings as an answer to address environmental impact. By optimizing management, organization and improving the physical performance of the stock of existing buildings, the rehabilitation with environmental goals embraces the possibilities of transforming the construction sector, by giving way to the concept of re-use and recycle and encouraging these answers in order to recover resources from existing structures instead of extracting them, and improving the buildings operation and management to increase its life cycle performance. But rehabilitating a building is not a simple process. Many factors must be taken into account especially when the building is operating. Certifying tools for sustainable buildings give the guidance, through a list of criteria, to accomplish a level of sustainable efficiency in the building, for either new construction or existing buildings. The certifying tools for existing buildings have been developed to assess their current performance in operation and maintenance, and the potential they have to improve. The certifying tool for new constructions guides the building from the design stage to the construction stage to accomplish a physical and inherit sustainable performance. By analyzing and comparing both types of assessment tools and from different organizations (LEED and BREEAM), it is intended with this work to develop a tool that will not only certify a rehabilitated building, but will also shows the steps, the criteria and procedures for a Sustainable Rehabilitation.
Examining The Environmental Impacts Of Materials And Buildings
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Author : Brownell, Blaine Erickson
language : en
Publisher: IGI Global
Release Date : 2020-02-28
Examining The Environmental Impacts Of Materials And Buildings written by Brownell, Blaine Erickson and has been published by IGI Global this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-28 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Fundamental environmental challenges such as climate change, resource depletion, and pollution are still widely relevant in today’s world. Many of these problems have been associated with the architecture, engineering, and construction industries due to the level of resources used in these professions. In recent years, many manufacturers in these fields have expressed the motivation to make necessary changes that would be beneficial to the environment. Despite this progress, there remains a lack of research and assessment on the methods to achieve environmental stability within these architectural fields. Examining the Environmental Impacts of Materials and Buildings provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of ecological performance within modern building design and materials-based construction. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as life cycle assessment, material flows analysis, and sustainability, this book is ideally designed for architects, civil engineers, construction professionals, environmentalists, ecologists, business practitioners, scientists, policymakers, designers, researchers, and academicians seeking research on current trends in environmental performance within building design.
Environmental Assessment Of Office Buildings
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Author : Pedro Miguel dos Santos Vieira
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Environmental Assessment Of Office Buildings written by Pedro Miguel dos Santos Vieira and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.