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Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) of construction products in Spain: current status and future challenges
(IOP Publishing, 2022)
The current decarbonisation scenario demands a decrease in embodied and operational environmental impacts of buildings, wherein the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method and the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) play ...
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A workflow to integrate operational and embodied aspects when implementing Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in Building Information Modelling
(EDP Sciences, 2022)
The existing environmental crisis demands increased efforts to design more sustainable buildings, which means the simultaneous balance between environmental preservation, economic growth, and social wellbeing. This ...
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Recycling of low-density polyethylene waste to produce eco-friendly gypsum composites
(WIT Press, 2022)
Over 367 million metric tons of plastic were produced worldwide in 2020. Within the most consumed standard plastics, low-density polyethylene (LDPE) is the second resin most demanded in Europe. Far from reducing its ...
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Influence of polypropylene residues on the physico-mechanical and water-resistance properties of gypsum plasters
(Elsevier, 2022-10-15)
The main objective of the present research is to determine the feasibility of using polypropylene (PP) waste to produce eco-friendly gypsum-based composites. Four different replacement levels of plastic waste were selected ...
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Thermal and mechanical performance of gypsum composites with waste cellulose acetate fibres
(Elsevier, 2022-11-21)
The influence of waste cellulose acetate (CA) fibres in the physico-mechanical (i.e. density, surface hardness - Shore C, flexural and compressive strength) and thermal properties (i.e. thermal conductivity coefficient) ...
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Covid Risk airborne, a tool to test the risk of aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 under different scenarios: a pre-school classroom case study
(2022-09-05)
The COVID-19 emergency has shown that airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is especially relevant in poorly bad ventilated spaces with high occupancy density, like non-university classrooms, a widespread space typology ...
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Implications of the building system boundary definition to conduct an LCA. A case study comparison of two frameworks for assessing building sustainability: DGNB and Level(s)
(EDP Sciences, 2022)
The embodied impacts calculation is increasing attention in research, and the use of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is the most widely recognised method for that purpose. To support architects and engineers in the use of LCA ...
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How transport modelling affects the building Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) results: a case study analysis
(IOP Publishing, 2022)
The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of a building involves the use of various types of information about the building, including the products, processes, and services related to the building throughout its life cycle. The ...