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Sustainable Water Consumption in Building Industry: A Review Focusing on Building Water Footprint
Sustainable water consumption has become a primary concern of the building industry. The water footprinting assesses the freshwater use and associated effects on local and global freshwater resources plus ecosystems therein. This review elaborates two extensively adopted water footprinting approaches, Water Footprint Network (WFN) and ISO 14046 Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), discussing their methodologies and perspectives of analyses with special regard to the building industry. An appraisal of water footprints of common building materials is presented in this study with glimpses of the hotspots of freshwater consumption along their supply chains. Further, it advances its water footprints appraisal into the use phase/case study level referring to the real-world applications of the building industry. The importance of comprehensive water footprint analysis covering the complete life cycle of buildings, the inclusion of allied environmental impacts into analyses, influence of building type/structural design/site-specific variables were highlighted under this discussion in support of the dependable judgment of freshwater appropriation performances. Ultimately, the review dedicated a segment to set a futuristic view into the matter featuring sustainable freshwater consumption, economic and developmental interests, challenges faced by the industry, prioritization and compromise of freshwater uses of the building industry.
Sustainable Water Consumption in Building Industry: A Review Focusing on Building Water Footprint
Sustainable water consumption has become a primary concern of the building industry. The water footprinting assesses the freshwater use and associated effects on local and global freshwater resources plus ecosystems therein. This review elaborates two extensively adopted water footprinting approaches, Water Footprint Network (WFN) and ISO 14046 Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), discussing their methodologies and perspectives of analyses with special regard to the building industry. An appraisal of water footprints of common building materials is presented in this study with glimpses of the hotspots of freshwater consumption along their supply chains. Further, it advances its water footprints appraisal into the use phase/case study level referring to the real-world applications of the building industry. The importance of comprehensive water footprint analysis covering the complete life cycle of buildings, the inclusion of allied environmental impacts into analyses, influence of building type/structural design/site-specific variables were highlighted under this discussion in support of the dependable judgment of freshwater appropriation performances. Ultimately, the review dedicated a segment to set a futuristic view into the matter featuring sustainable freshwater consumption, economic and developmental interests, challenges faced by the industry, prioritization and compromise of freshwater uses of the building industry.
Sustainable Water Consumption in Building Industry: A Review Focusing on Building Water Footprint
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Dissanayake, Ranjith (editor) / Mendis, Priyan (editor) / Weerasekera, Kolita (editor) / De Silva, Sudhira (editor) / Fernando, Shiromal (editor) / Konthesingha, Chaminda (editor) / Nallaperuma, Bhagya (author) / Lin, Zih-Ee (author) / Wijesinghe, Jithya (author) / Abeynayaka, Amila (author)
12th International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management ; Chapter: 56 ; 799-810
2022-09-29
12 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Water footprint , Building industry , Water footprint network , Life cycle assessment , Building materials , Sustainable water consumption Engineering , Construction Management , Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings , Sustainable Development , Building Materials , Building Construction and Design
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