LCA of constructing an industrial building: focus on embodied carbon and energy

This work evaluates the embodied carbon and energy of an industrial building construction with 6733 m² of built area, following a LCA methodology, on a gate-to-gate approach. For the LCI it was used primary data of electricity, water and diesel fuel, directly measured at the construction site, and i...

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Published inEnergy procedia Vol. 153; pp. 420 - 425
Main Authors Rodrigues, Vinicius, Martins, António A., Nunes, Maria Isabel, Quintas, Ana, Mata, Teresa M., Caetano, Nídia S.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2018
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Embodied carbon
embodied energy
gate-to-gate analysis
industrial building construction
life cycle analysis
gate-to-gate analysis
life cycle analysis
Embodied carbon
industrial building construction
embodied energy
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Summary:This work evaluates the embodied carbon and energy of an industrial building construction with 6733 m² of built area, following a LCA methodology, on a gate-to-gate approach. For the LCI it was used primary data of electricity, water and diesel fuel, directly measured at the construction site, and information about the building materials used in the architecture and stability phases, obtained from the specialty design and construction documents, complemented with secondary data from literature. Results show an embodied carbon of 508.57 kgCO2-eq/m² and an embodied energy of 4908.68 MJ/m2 for the construction of the industrial building, being the building materials the main contributor.
ISSN:1876-6102
1876-6102
DOI:10.1016/j.egypro.2018.10.018