Reducing Energy Consumption and GHG Emissions for Building Construction

Laura Dumitrescu
Affiliation: „Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Building Services
Email: laura.dumitrescu@tuiasi.ro
Irina Baran
Affiliation: „Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Building Services
Email:
Radu-Aurel Pescaru
Affiliation: „Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Building Services
Email:
Cătălin Dumitrescu
Affiliation: „Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Energetics and Applied Informatics
Email:
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Tomme: 65 (69) | Fascicle: 1 | 2019
Pages: 123-134
Abstract text:
Climate change is a very serious problem with negative consequences on all life aspects. Each economy sector, including building construction, must seek some means for the decrease of GHG emissions, creating the premises of sustainable development. During last decades, several high energy performance building concepts have been proposed, from low-energy building through passive building and zero-energy building to positive energy building, active building and even autonomous building. Similar to energy, GHG lifecycle emissions resulting from buildings consist of two components: operational and embodied emissions. Embodied impacts (embodied energy and embodied GHG emissions) should be considered starting with preliminary design stages, by the examination of alternatives at the building materials and components level. In the case study, the embodied energy and embodied GHG emissions are evaluated for different solutions of partition walls and floors widely used in Romania. The paper presents some options to reduce embodied impacts.
Key Words:
energy efficiency; embodied energy; GHG emissions; sustainable buildings; life-cycle assessment

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Author(s) Information

Laura Dumitrescu
Affiliation: „Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Building Services
Email: laura.dumitrescu@tuiasi.ro
Irina Baran
Affiliation: „Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Building Services
Email:
Radu-Aurel Pescaru
Affiliation: „Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Building Services
Email:
Cătălin Dumitrescu
Affiliation: „Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Energetics and Applied Informatics
Email:

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