Establishment of an Environmental Impact Factor Database for Building Materials to Support Building Life Cycle Assessments in China
- Title
- Establishment of an Environmental Impact Factor Database for Building Materials to Support Building Life Cycle Assessments in China
- Author
- 장형제
- Keywords
- life cycle assessment; building material; environmental impact category; database
- Issue Date
- 2024-01-15
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Citation
- BUILDINGS
- Abstract
- The construction industry increasingly poses significant threats on the environment, highlighting the importance of developing life cycle assessments (LCAs). Research on building LCA databases has been carried out in many countries. However, in China, the absence of public data for environmental impact assessments poses significant challenges for building life cycle assessments (LCA). Therefore, this study aims to facilitate the life cycle assessment of buildings in China by comparing and analyzing databases from South Korea and the European Union. The goal is to establish a unit-based environmental impact database for Chinese building materials. Three environmental impact factors of ten major building materials in these three databases were compared and a basis for the inter-application of the databases was established. Based on the combination of the analysis results, the supplementation of the environmental impact factor database of building materials in China was proposed. In addition, a case study using a quantity take-off (QTO) for an actual building in China was performed to review the plan's applicability.
- URI
- https://information.hanyang.ac.kr/#/eds/detail?an=001149247000001&dbId=edswschttps://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/189565
- ISSN
- 2075-5309
- DOI
- 10.3390/buildings14010228
- Appears in Collections:
- COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES[E](공학대학) > ETC
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