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Mitigation Strategies for Reduction of Embodied Energy and Carbon, in the Construction Systems of Contemporary Quality Architecture

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy
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Sustainability 2019, 11(14), 3806; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11143806
Received: 5 June 2019 / Revised: 5 July 2019 / Accepted: 8 July 2019 / Published: 11 July 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Building Energy Assessment)
The criticality related to the consumption of operational energy and related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of existing buildings is clearly decreasing in new buildings due to the strategies tested and applied in recent years in the energy retrofit sector. Recently, studies have been focusing on strategies to reduce environmental impacts related to the entire life cycle of the building organism, with reference to the reduction of embodied energy (and related greenhouse gas emissions) in building materials. As part of EEA’s European EBC project, Annex 57, a wide range of case studies have been promoted with the aim of identifying design strategies that can reduce the embodied energy and related greenhouse gas emissions of buildings. The aim of this paper is to investigate the most common construction systems in the construction industry (concrete, steel, wood) through the analysis of three contemporary architectural works, with the aim of identifying the predisposition for environmental sustainability of each technological system, thus guiding the operators in the sector towards design choices more compatible with the environmental requirements recommended by European legislation. View Full-Text
Keywords: embodied energy; embodied carbon; sustainable architecture design; eco-architecture; life cycle assessment; environmental pressures; dry technological system embodied energy; embodied carbon; sustainable architecture design; eco-architecture; life cycle assessment; environmental pressures; dry technological system
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Sicignano, E.; Di Ruocco, G.; Melella, R. Mitigation Strategies for Reduction of Embodied Energy and Carbon, in the Construction Systems of Contemporary Quality Architecture. Sustainability 2019, 11, 3806. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11143806

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Sicignano E, Di Ruocco G, Melella R. Mitigation Strategies for Reduction of Embodied Energy and Carbon, in the Construction Systems of Contemporary Quality Architecture. Sustainability. 2019; 11(14):3806. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11143806

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Sicignano, Enrico, Giacomo Di Ruocco, and Roberta Melella. 2019. "Mitigation Strategies for Reduction of Embodied Energy and Carbon, in the Construction Systems of Contemporary Quality Architecture" Sustainability 11, no. 14: 3806. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11143806

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