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Surveying the environmental life-cycle performance assessments: Practice and context at early building design stages

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The international greenhouse gas agreements call for mitigations in the building industry. Thus, the number of scientific publications about life-cycle performance assessment (LCPA) follows an exponential trend since the 2000s. However, previous surveys hi ...

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Energy, indoor air quality, occupant behavior, self-reported symptoms and satisfaction in energy-efficient dwellings in Switzerland

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We performed the first large-scale investigation of indoor air quality (IAQ), energy and occupant behavior and satisfaction, in 650 energy-efficient dwellings in western Switzerland. The investigation included comparative assessment of 217 green-certified ...

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CUMULATOR — a tool to quantify and report the carbon footprint of machine learning computations and communication in academia and healthcare

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"The cost of training machines is becoming a problem". This is the title of an article from The Economist published in June 2020 that highlights the staggeringly unappreciated the financial impact of AI [38]. However, these costs on are not limited to mone ...

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Catalyst design for C-O bond hydrogenolysis of renewable materials.

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Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions leading to climate change require to use of renewable carbon sources such as CO2 and biomass which differ from fossil resources by having a higher number of oxygen atoms. Therefore, catalytic C-O bond cleavage will pl ...

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Unpacking the Green Economy concept: A quantitative analysis of 140 definitions

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Over the past ten years, the Green Economy (GE) concept has gained momentum in both academia and policy-making arenas, leading to international programs in diverse sectors and driving national agendas all over the world. The concept is however highly contr ...

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Geotechnical and environmental performance of retaining structures in unsaturated soils

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Presently, environmental issues are considered as critical aspects concerning the market competitiveness in the building and construction sector. However, the construction sector is regarded as one of the main areas contributing to CO2 emissions and resour ...

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Data-driven method for low-carbon building design at early stages

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The Paris agreement on climate change called for carbon neutrality as of 2050. The built environment is one of the major contributors to the greenhouse effect, representing 39% of global emissions. As a result, this sector is targeted by green standards an ...

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Environmental impacts and decarbonization strategies in the cement and concrete industries

Karen Scrivener, Aurélie Rosine Favier

The use of cement and concrete, among the most widely used man-made materials, is under scrutiny. Owing to their large-scale use, production of cement and concrete results in substantial emission of greenhouse gases and places strain on the availability of ...

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Outdoor Operating Temperature of Modules in BIPV and BAPV Topologies

Christophe Ballif, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Andrew Wayne Fairbrother

Photovoltaics (PV) are promoted as an environmentally friendly alternative to carbon intensive energy sources, however, typical installations require expansive land-use. Building-integrated and building-applied photovoltaics (BIPV and BAPV) minimize this i ...

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