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  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,874 Views
16 Pages

29 March 2021

Scientific literature provides evidence that mitigating the effects of a building’s operation does not in itself ensure an overall improvement in its environmental performance. A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) plays a key role in gauging the overall env...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,421 Views
19 Pages

27 June 2021

In line with the Paris Agreement, Norway aims for an up to 55% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 compared to 1990 levels and to be a low-emission society by 2050. Given that 85–90% of today’s buildings are expected to still be in us...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,651 Views
27 Pages

Social Aspects in the Assessment of Biobased Value Chains

  • Nirvana Angela Marting Vidaurre,
  • Ricardo Vargas-Carpintero,
  • Moritz Wagner,
  • Jan Lask and
  • Iris Lewandowski

25 November 2020

Social Life-Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) is under continuous development. The Methodological Sheets for Subcategories in S-LCA are a set of guidelines commonly used for the performance of such assessments. They cover a variety of stakeholders and subcate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,968 Views
13 Pages

Life Cycle Assessment of Honey: Considering the Pollination Service

  • Ioannis Arzoumanidis,
  • Andrea Raggi and
  • Luigia Petti

26 March 2019

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been increasingly used for the improvement of the environmental performance of products and services, including food systems. Amongst them, however, honey appears to have been rarely analysed. Furthermore, the pollinat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,735 Views
20 Pages

25 April 2019

The availability of resources is crucial for the socio-economic stability of our society. For more than two decades, there was a debate on how to structure this issue within the context of life-Cycle assessment (LCA). The classical approach with LCA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,521 Views
16 Pages

Ex-Ante Eco-Efficiency Assessment of Dendromass Production: Conception and Experiences of an Innovation Project

  • Franziska Hesser,
  • Daniela Groiß-Fürtner,
  • Leona Woitsch and
  • Claudia Mair-Bauernfeind

6 April 2023

Rising demand for bio-based products exerts growing pressure on natural resources such as wood. The agricultural technique of short rotation coppice (SRC) to produce dendromass from fast growing trees has gained relevance to ease the pressure of dema...

  • Feature Paper
  • Communication
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,769 Views
15 Pages

A Regional Socio-Economic Life Cycle Assessment of a Bioeconomy Value Chain

  • Lena Jarosch,
  • Walther Zeug,
  • Alberto Bezama,
  • Matthias Finkbeiner and
  • Daniela Thrän

10 February 2020

A bioeconomy tackles sustainable development at both the global and regional levels, as it relies on the optimized use of renewable bio-based resources for the provisioning of food, materials, and energy to meet societal demands. The effects of the b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,528 Views
15 Pages

Measuring the Value of Blockchain Traceability in Supporting LCA for Textile Products

  • Vincent Carrières,
  • Andrée-Anne Lemieux,
  • Manuele Margni,
  • Robert Pellerin and
  • Sylvain Cariou

12 February 2022

The efficiency of sustainability assessments of textile products is generally prevented because of a lack of available and reliable data across complex and globalized supply chains. The purpose of this study is to evaluate how blockchain traceability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
8,814 Views
16 Pages

11 November 2016

A tailored model for the assessment of environmental benefits achievable by “light-weighting” in the automotive field is presented. The model is based on the Fuel Reduction Value (FRV) coefficient, which expresses the Fuel Consumption (FC) saving inv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,780 Views
24 Pages

10 September 2018

Calculating the environmental benefits of energy saving systems in dwellings in a life cycle assessment (LCA) has two major issues, namely: how to deal with the customer behaviour and how to deal with rebound effects. Both issues are important for su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,623 Views
18 Pages

The production of nitrogen fertilizers results in multiple negative environmental impacts. A particularly important aspect is its energy consumption. Analyses covering the product’s life cycle indicate that the greatest environmental harm is ge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
430 Views
20 Pages

10 February 2026

The purpose of this research is to reduce the environmental burden of textiles, specifically focusing on the production of Merino woollen jumpers. The study addresses two techniques to lessen the environmental burden: (1) recycling of wool garments b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,152 Views
15 Pages

An Evaluation of the Environmental Payback Times and Economic Convenience in an Energy Requalification of a School

  • Francesco Asdrubali,
  • Daniela Venanzi,
  • Luca Evangelisti,
  • Claudia Guattari,
  • Gianluca Grazieschi,
  • Paolo Matteucci and
  • Marta Roncone

28 December 2020

The majority of Italian schools (70%) were built in the absence of any legislation related to energy efficiency, and therefore have very low energy performance due to aging or poor quality of construction. An energy retrofit of this building stock is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,876 Views
26 Pages

Olive Oil Wastewater Revalorization into a High-Added Value Product: A Biofertilizer Assessment Combining LCA and MCI

  • Roberto Petrucci,
  • Gabriele Menegaldo,
  • Lucia Rocchi,
  • Luisa Paolotti,
  • Antonio Boggia and
  • Debora Puglia

25 July 2025

The olive oil sector constitutes a fundamental pillar in the Mediterranean region from socio-economic and cultural perspectives. Nonetheless, it produces significant amounts of waste, leading to numerous environmental issues. These waste streams cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,149 Views
23 Pages

Unlocking New Value from Urban Biowaste: LCA of the VALUEWASTE Biobased Products

  • David Fernández-Gutiérrez,
  • Alejandra Argüelles,
  • Gemma Castejón Martínez,
  • José M. Soriano Disla and
  • Andrés J. Lara-Guillén

11 November 2022

The VALUEWASTE project can offer a sustainable solution to transform biowaste into added-value bioproducts, such as proteins from microorganisms and insects and biofertilizers. The present study focused on the environmental impacts linked to obtainin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
10,614 Views
17 Pages

Integrated BIM-Based LCA for the Entire Building Process Using an Existing Structure for Cost Estimation in the Swiss Context

  • Anita Naneva,
  • Marcella Bonanomi,
  • Alexander Hollberg,
  • Guillaume Habert and
  • Daniel Hall

The building sector has a significant potential to reduce the material resource demand needed for construction and therefore, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Digitalization can help to make use of this potential and improve sustainability throughout...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,162 Views
18 Pages

7 January 2025

Standard carbon accounting methods and metrics undermine the potential of fast-growing biogenic materials to decarbonize buildings because they ignore the timing of carbon uptake. The consequence is that analyses can indicate that a building material...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,906 Views
24 Pages

19 October 2021

Cultural value and heritage have been identified as necessary for a sustainable living environment, alongside environmental concern and energy efficiency. In this study, multiple methods, i.e., life cycle assessment, payback, and questionnaires and i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
10,285 Views
24 Pages

10 January 2020

The present study proposes an economic indicator to support the evaluation of aircraft End of Life (EoL) strategies in view of the increasing demand with regards to aircraft decommissioning. This indicator can be used to evaluate an economic performa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,932 Views
25 Pages

9 January 2025

Approximately 20% of CO2 emissions from Japanese households are attributed to heating usage. Consequently, as part of its climate change policy, the Ministry of the Environment has promoted the “WARM BIZ” campaign, which encourages settin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,151 Views
25 Pages

A Methodological Framework to Foster Social Value Creation in Architectural Practice

  • Vibeke Grupe Larsen,
  • Valentina Antoniucci,
  • Nicola Tollin,
  • Peter Andreas Sattrup,
  • Krister Jens,
  • Morten Birkved,
  • Tine Holmboe and
  • Giuliano Marella

18 January 2023

The building industry is essential for a national transition towards a circular economy (CE) in Denmark. The Danish state subsidises the Danish affordable housing sector, which is the largest single sector within the Danish building industry, making...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,005 Views
31 Pages

A Modular Tool to Support Data Management for LCA in Industry: Methodology, Application and Potentialities

  • Davide Rovelli,
  • Carlo Brondi,
  • Michele Andreotti,
  • Elisabetta Abbate,
  • Maurizio Zanforlin and
  • Andrea Ballarino

22 March 2022

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) computes potential environmental impacts of a product or process. However, LCAs in the industrial sector are generally delivered through static yearly analyses which cannot capture any temporal dynamics of inventory data....

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,228 Views
18 Pages

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a widely-used international environmental evaluation and management method. However, the conventional LCA is in a static context without temporal and spatial variations considered, which fails to bring accurate evaluati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
25,379 Views
11 Pages

Integrating Protein Quality and Quantity with Environmental Impacts in Life Cycle Assessment

  • Andrew Berardy,
  • Carol S. Johnston,
  • Alexandra Plukis,
  • Maricarmen Vizcaino and
  • Christopher Wharton

14 May 2019

Life cycle assessment (LCA) evaluates environmental impacts of a product from material extraction through disposal. Applications of LCA in evaluating diets and foods indicate that plant-based foods have lower environmental impacts than animal-based f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
12,176 Views
12 Pages

Implementing Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Predict Environmental Impacts: Case of Construction Products

  • Anish Koyamparambath,
  • Naeem Adibi,
  • Carolina Szablewski,
  • Sierra A. Adibi and
  • Guido Sonnemann

21 March 2022

Nowadays, product designers, manufacturers, and consumers consider the environmental impacts of products, processes, and services in their decision-making process. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a tool that assesses the environmental impacts over a p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,942 Views
18 Pages

27 June 2020

The decarbonisation goal stated in the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) regarding the building sector will be achieved only if the whole building life-cycle is considered. To fulfil this requirement, a benchmark based on the life cycl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,038 Views
22 Pages

Social Consideration in Product Life Cycle for Product Social Sustainability

  • Somayeh Rezaei Kalvani,
  • Amir Hamzah Sharaai and
  • Ibrahim Kabir Abdullahi

13 October 2021

Social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) is an emerging and pivotal tool for sustainability evaluation of products throughout their life cycle. Understanding deeply published papers helps to modify methods and identify research gaps. The aim of this stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,313 Views
21 Pages

This study summarizes the technology level and economic feasibility of two small 500 m2 public office buildings that achieved a first-class Zero Energy Buildings (ZEB) certification for the first time in Korea. In addition, a Life Cycle Assessment (L...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,737 Views
14 Pages

3 September 2016

While color-coding methods have improved the measuring efficiency of a structured light three-dimensional (3D) measurement system, they decreased the measuring accuracy significantly due to lateral chromatic aberration (LCA). In this study, the LCA i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,734 Views
23 Pages

Argumentation Corrected Context Weighting-Life Cycle Assessment: A Practical Method of Including Stakeholder Perspectives in Multi-Criteria Decision Support for LCA

  • Joshua Sohn,
  • Pierre Bisquert,
  • Patrice Buche,
  • Abdelraouf Hecham,
  • Pradip P. Kalbar,
  • Ben Goldstein,
  • Morten Birkved and
  • Stig Irving Olsen

11 March 2020

Despite advances in the data, models, and methods underpinning environmental life cycle assessment (LCA), it remains challenging for practitioners to effectively communicate and interpret results. These shortcomings can bias decisions and hinder publ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,608 Views
14 Pages

Histone Deacetylase GiSRT2 Negatively Regulates Flavonoid Biosynthesis in Glycyrrhiza inflata

  • Jiangyi Zeng,
  • Yun Huang,
  • Lijun Zhou,
  • Xiaoju Liang,
  • Chao Yang,
  • Hongxia Wang,
  • Ling Yuan,
  • Ying Wang and
  • Yongqing Li

29 May 2023

Glycyrrhiza inflata Batalin is a medicinal licorice species that has been widely used by humans for centuries. Licochalcone A (LCA) is a characteristic flavonoid that accumulates in G. inflata roots with high economical value. However, the biosynthet...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,420 Views
29 Pages

A Critical Review of Life Cycle Assessments of Cocoa: Environmental Impacts and Methodological Challenges for Sustainable Production

  • Ramón Fernando Colmenares-Quintero,
  • Diana M. Caicedo-Concha,
  • Laura Stefanía Corredor-Muñoz,
  • Sara Piedrahita-Rodríguez,
  • Alberto Coz and
  • Juan Carlos Colmenares-Quintero

Cocoa is a key tropical crop with profound environmental, social, and economic implications throughout its value chain. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been widely employed to assess these impacts; however, most applications remain fragmented and foc...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,633 Views
24 Pages

24 June 2025

This study analyses the state-of-the-art application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in the production and recycling of rare earth elements (REEs), highlighting its strategic role in promoting sustainability across resource-intensive sectors. A system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
6,563 Views
15 Pages

A Method to Facilitate Uncertainty Analysis in LCAs of Buildings

  • Francesco Pomponi,
  • Bernardino D’Amico and
  • Alice M. Moncaster

13 April 2017

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is increasingly becoming a common technique to assess the embodied energy and carbon of buildings and their components over their life cycle. However, the vast majority of existing LCAs result in very definite, determinist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,745 Views
19 Pages

Four Unique Genetic Variants in Three Genes Account for 62.7% of Early-Onset Severe Retinal Dystrophy in Chile: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Consequences

  • Rene Moya,
  • Clémentine Angée,
  • Sylvain Hanein,
  • Fabienne Jabot-Hanin,
  • Josseline Kaplan,
  • Isabelle Perrault,
  • Jean-Michel Rozet and
  • Lucas Fares Taie

Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA)/early-onset severe retinal dystrophy (EOSRD) stand as primary causes of incurable childhood blindness. This study investigates the clinical and molecular architecture of syndromic and non-syndromic LCA/EOSRD within a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,141 Views
15 Pages

15 January 2023

Recent research relating to energy use and carbon emissions by buildings has started to move from operational energy carbon impacts to the embodied energy/carbon impacts of buildings, and the methods and approaches used in architectural design to red...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,138 Views
9 Pages

3 February 2021

Carbon life cycle assessments (C LCA) play a major role in greenhouse gas (GHG)-related forest management analytics for wood products and consist of several steps along a forest to disposal path. Yet, input values for wood product C LCAs frequently r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
10,397 Views
14 Pages

Accounting for the Ecological Footprint of Materials in Consumer Goods at the Urban Scale

  • Meidad Kissinger,
  • Cornelia Sussman,
  • Jennie Moore and
  • William E. Rees

2 May 2013

Ecological footprint analysis (EFA) can be used by cities to account for their on-going demands on global renewable resources. To date, EFA has not been fully implemented as an urban policy and planning tool in part due to limitations of local data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
7,760 Views
17 Pages

Recommendations for Developing a BIM for the Purpose of LCA in Green Building Certifications

  • Jakub Veselka,
  • Marie Nehasilová,
  • Karolína Dvořáková,
  • Pavla Ryklová,
  • Martin Volf,
  • Jan Růžička and
  • Antonín Lupíšek

30 July 2020

Building information modeling (BIM) and life cycle assessment (LCA) are two methods that can be helpful when designing buildings with lower environmental impacts. One of the most significant examples of environmental impact assessments in constructio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,995 Views
42 Pages

Cereal and Confectionary Packaging: Assessment of Sustainability and Environmental Impact with a Special Focus on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  • Victoria Krauter,
  • Anna-Sophia Bauer,
  • Maria Milousi,
  • Krisztina Rita Dörnyei,
  • Greg Ganczewski,
  • Kärt Leppik,
  • Jan Krepil and
  • Theodoros Varzakas

6 May 2022

The usefulness of food packaging is often questioned in the public debate about (ecological) sustainability. While worldwide packaging-related CO2 emissions are accountable for approximately 5% of emissions, specific packaging solutions can reach sig...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
12,582 Views
17 Pages

Life Cycle Assessment of Geotechnical Works in Building Construction: A Review and Recommendations

  • Xingqiang Song,
  • Christel Carlsson,
  • Ramona Kiilsgaard,
  • David Bendz and
  • Helene Kennedy

13 October 2020

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is becoming an increasingly important environmental systems analysis tool in the construction sector for the identification of measures and strategies to reduce the environmental impact of buildings throughout the whole va...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,586 Views
16 Pages

Estimation of Carbon Footprint of Residential Building in Warm Humid Climate of India through BIM

  • Rosaliya Kurian,
  • Kishor Sitaram Kulkarni,
  • Prasanna Venkatesan Ramani,
  • Chandan Swaroop Meena,
  • Ashok Kumar and
  • Raffaello Cozzolino

14 July 2021

In recent years Asian Nations showed concern over the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of their civil infrastructure. This study presents a contextual investigation of a residential apartment complex in the territory of the southern part of India. The LCA...

  • Review
  • Open Access
60 Citations
11,145 Views
33 Pages

Key Parameters Featuring BIM-LCA Integration in Buildings: A Practical Review of the Current Trends

  • Tiziano Dalla Mora,
  • Erika Bolzonello,
  • Carmine Cavalliere and
  • Fabio Peron

2 September 2020

The construction sector is responsible for 40% of carbon emissions, 14% of water consumption and 60% of waste production in the world, generating a state of unsustainability. In order to keep these values under control and make the most sustainable c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,067 Views
14 Pages

9 November 2018

For the life cycle assessment (LCA) of wastewater management, eutrophication is considered the most relevant factor. However, eutrophication is not the only pathway through which wastewater influences the environment, and merely characterizing eutrop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,466 Views
19 Pages

Human Toxicological Impacts in Life Cycle Assessment of Circular Economy of the Built Environment: A Case Study of Denmark

  • Caroline Wielandt Egemose,
  • Diane Bastien,
  • Xavier Fretté,
  • Morten Birkved and
  • Joshua L. Sohn

27 January 2022

The circular economy has become an important topic in the building industry, and life cycle assessment (LCA) is often used to quantify its benefits. Through chemical analysis, this article demonstrates that the current LCA is not yet well-adapted to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,863 Views
19 Pages

24 March 2021

The present paper discusses the applications of life-cycle assessment (LCA) to construction works in Japan. LCA has been frequently used to assess the environmental impacts of new construction. Nonetheless, the applications of LCA to restoration have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,929 Views
16 Pages

Analyzing the Consequences of Sharing Principles on Different Economies: A Case Study of Short Rotation Coppice Poplar Wood Panel Production Value Chain

  • Enrique Alejandro Perdomo Echenique,
  • Morten Ryberg,
  • Eldbjørg Blikra Vea,
  • Peter Schwarzbauer and
  • Franziska Hesser

16 March 2022

Quantifying the environmental impacts of value chains on the earth’s ecological limits is crucial to designing science-based strategies for environmental sustainability. Combining the Planetary Boundaries (PB) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,597 Views
12 Pages

8 April 2024

Due to the growing global population and consequent increased demand for food, the global production of cereal crops has increased. Wheat is one of the most important food crops in the world, as its products, e.g., bread and crackers, have served as...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,042 Views
24 Pages

Under the umbrella of Blue Economy, research interest is focused on harnessing the potential of macroalgae biomass, known as third-generation feedstock, from which multiple products can be extracted. As many of these exploitation pathways are not yet...

  • Review
  • Open Access
51 Citations
7,720 Views
26 Pages

A Systematic Review of the Discrepancies in Life Cycle Assessments of Green Concrete

  • Hisham Hafez,
  • Rawaz Kurda,
  • Wai Ming Cheung and
  • Brabha Nagaratnam

10 November 2019

It is challenging to measure the environmental impact of concrete with the absence of a consensus on a standardized methodology for life cycle assessment (LCA). Consequently, the values communicated in the literature for “green” concrete...

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