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Toward Environmentally Sustainable Construction Processes: The U.S. and Canada’s Perspective on Energy Consumption and GHG/CAP Emissions

C. Ahn,Sanghyun Lee,F. Peña-Mora,S. Abourizk

Published 2010 in Sustainability

ABSTRACT

In the building and construction sector, most efforts related to sustainable development have concentrated on the environmental performance of the operation of buildings and infrastructure. However, several studies have called for the need to mitigate the considerable environmental impacts, especially air pollutant emissions and energy consumption, generated by construction processes. To provide a point of reference for initiating the development of environmentally sustainable construction processes, this article identifies energy consumption and air emissions resulting from construction activities and examines previous approaches utilized to assess such environmental impact. This research also identifies the opportunities and challenges to mitigate such environmental impact from construction processes, based on the investigation of current technology policies, regulations, incentives, and guidelines.

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  • Publication year

    2010

  • Venue

    Sustainability

  • Publication date

    2010-01-21

  • Fields of study

    Business, Engineering, Environmental Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.3390/SU2010354
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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