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Decision Support Tool for Environmental Analysis of Commercial Building Structures
The life-cycle of a commercial building includes: raw materials acquisition and manufacturing, construction, use, maintenance, and end-of-life. To date, environmental research has focused on the energy use, environmental emissions, and waste generation associated with creating building materials and operation during the building use phase. Environmental effects of construction, maintenance, and end-of-life phases were either ignored or assumed to be insignificant. To truly understand the environmental impact of a commercial building, the environmental effects from all life-cycle phases should be known. Impacts of concern include energy use, greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O), related emissions (CO, NO2, SO2, VOC, HC), water consumption, waste generation, particulate matter emissions, and heavy metal discharges. To respond to the need for a tool to evaluate the environmental effects of the construction phase of commercial buildings, the Construction Environmental Decision Support Tool (CEDST) was created. CEDST allows designers and contractors to estimate the energy use, environmental emissions, and waste generation associated with the construction of commercial buildings. The categories evaluated include: manufacturing of temporary materials, transportation of equipment and materials, equipment use, and waste generation. To show how contractors can use CEDST to help reduce their energy use and environmental emissions, an analysis is performed to compare the energy use and environmental emissions resulting from the use of alternate construction materials and methods for cast-in-place concrete formwork.
Decision Support Tool for Environmental Analysis of Commercial Building Structures
The life-cycle of a commercial building includes: raw materials acquisition and manufacturing, construction, use, maintenance, and end-of-life. To date, environmental research has focused on the energy use, environmental emissions, and waste generation associated with creating building materials and operation during the building use phase. Environmental effects of construction, maintenance, and end-of-life phases were either ignored or assumed to be insignificant. To truly understand the environmental impact of a commercial building, the environmental effects from all life-cycle phases should be known. Impacts of concern include energy use, greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O), related emissions (CO, NO2, SO2, VOC, HC), water consumption, waste generation, particulate matter emissions, and heavy metal discharges. To respond to the need for a tool to evaluate the environmental effects of the construction phase of commercial buildings, the Construction Environmental Decision Support Tool (CEDST) was created. CEDST allows designers and contractors to estimate the energy use, environmental emissions, and waste generation associated with the construction of commercial buildings. The categories evaluated include: manufacturing of temporary materials, transportation of equipment and materials, equipment use, and waste generation. To show how contractors can use CEDST to help reduce their energy use and environmental emissions, an analysis is performed to compare the energy use and environmental emissions resulting from the use of alternate construction materials and methods for cast-in-place concrete formwork.
Decision Support Tool for Environmental Analysis of Commercial Building Structures
Guggemos, Angela Acree (author) / Horvath, Arpad (author)
Construction Research Congress 2005 ; 2005 ; San Diego, California, United States
2005-08-01
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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