life cycle assessment (LCA)
Industrial or traditional bamboo construction? Comparative Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of bamboo based buildings
... comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) was carried out to measure the environmental impact of the different construction materials in the construction of single and multi-storey ...The ...
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Combined Life Cycle Assessment and Costing Analysis Optimization Model Using Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Earth Resource Systems
... economic assessment [1]. One of the main potential applica- tions of modern life cycle assessment (LCA) is to identify options for environmental and economic improve- ments in ...
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A Methodology to Quantify Cumulative Damage Function (CDF) for Integration Into an Object-Oriented Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
... the life- cycle impacts to be integrated into the object-oriented life cycle assessment framework (Gadre ...the life cycle ...object-oriented life cycle ...
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Assessing the climate change impacts of biogenic carbon in buildings: a critical review of two main dynamic approaches
... challenge. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a well-documented, standardized, iterative framework used to assess and compare the environmental impacts of products or services over their ...
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Assessing the ecological soundness of organic and conventional agriculture by means of life cycle assessment (LCA) a case study of leek production
... There is a growing awareness that a single-issue approach to an environmental problem may not lead to an effective long-term strategy and that efficient methods to comprehend and assess agricultural impacts on the ...
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Selection of Renewable Energy Based on Life Cycle Assessment and Multi Criteria Decision Making
... integrates life cycle assessment (LCA), 3E (Energy-Economics-Environment) in- dicators and multi-criteria analysis (MCA) to evaluate environmental impacts and find the best choice or better ...
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Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Cost of Waste Management—Plastic Cable Waste
... in life cycle assessment of cables, as apart from LCA of cable recycling, the materials in the cable gener- ally carry insignificant environmental impact compared to the environmental impact ...
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Life Cycle Assessment of Creosote Treated Wooden Railroad Crossties in the US with Comparisons to Concrete and Plastic Composite Railroad Crossties
... service life and environmental performance in railway systems, alternatives to the creosote-treated wooden crosstie are being ...environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) results of ...
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Life Cycle Assessment of CCA Treated Wood Highway Guard Rail Posts in the US with Comparisons to Galvanized Steel Guard Rail Posts
... cradle-to-grave life cycle assessment is done to identify the environmental impacts of chromated copper arsenate (CCA)-treated timber used for highway guard rail posts, to understand the processes ...
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Guiding the design and application of new materials for enhancing sustainability performance: Framework and infrastructure application
... drive cycle is the closest estimate of fuel economy available for modeling stop-and-go movement typical of ...drive cycle for normal traffic flow is used to model flow during non-construction and ...
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Are the Dietary Guidelines for Meat, Fat, Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Appropriate for Environmental Sustainability? A Review of the Literature
... European life cycle assessment studies, because of the relatively high meat intake in the typical diet, meat-free scenarios were between 18% and 31% lower in greenhouse gas emissions than the average ...
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A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Alternative Fuels in Transport Operation
... A comparison is made based upon the potential environmental impact each vehicle has on society. The use of a vehicle produces emissions through the combustion of fuel and through the construction and use of the vehicle ...
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Energy & carbon audit of the Scenic Rim Regional Council
... the assessment included construction/repair works to Council infrastructure such as bridge repair/replacement and road ...fuel cycle of construction material was not considered nor was emissions generated ...
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Life cycle assessment of cement in Malaysia
... of LCA were the Resource And Environmental Profile Analyses (REPAs) of the late 1960s and early ...of LCA methodology. Another early type of LCA emerged in the late 1970s in the form of net energy ...
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Systematic review of greenhouse gas emissions for different fresh food categories
... from LCA studies should not be directly compared with other individual results, the meta-analysis of a large body of LCA work that draws on different methodologies, geographies and farming provides a strong ...
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Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) in Automotive Applications: Environmental Relevance of the Manufacturing Stage
... impact assessment of fuel cell (FC) vehicles and the comparison with their conventional fossil-fuelled counterparts, by means of the Life Cycle As- sessment (LCA) ...
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Graphical user interface for assessing sustainability by using fuzzy logic: a case study on hollow fiber membrane module
... product-related assessment tool was created by developing a GUI that evaluated the resources consumed and the potential environmental impact during the product chain in the product life ...
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Designing for Embodied Energy: An Examination of BIM integrated LCA using Residential Architecture in Rochester, NY
... integrating LCA analysis with Revit though dynamo, a VPL add in designed for ...a Life Cycle Inventory database requiring zero input from designers to complete the LCA process 96 ...an ...
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The Strathclyde space systems database : a new life cycle sustainability assessment tool for the design of next generation green space systems
... Whilst the mission produced a highly complex design which was indeed feasible, the process highlighted the need to further optimise the ecodesign process. There were numerous technical problems with the tool leading to ...
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Assessment of the life cycle based environmental impacts of New Zealand electricity : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Environmental Management at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... Model in 2013........................................................................................................................... 43 Table 12 Coal Combustion Emissions for the year 2013. ...
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