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Bamboo as a sustainable construction material for residential buildings in the cold and severe cold regions of China
bamboo is a construction material with excellent mechanical and thermal properties. It also has excellent carbon storage capacity and is already widely recognized as a sustainable construction material. This study quantifies the bamboo’s potential for energy efficiency and carbon emission reduction throughout the building life cycle in the cold and severe cold regions of China. A six-storey residential building is applied as a case study for a comparison between reinforced concrete (RC) and laminated bamboo lumber (LBL) construction in five representative cities. The comparison considers the inventory analysis of the materialization, operation, and end-of-life (EoL) stage, energy consumption as simulated by the commercial software IES-VE, and carbon emissions assessed by a process-based method. The results for the five cities show that the use of bamboo instead of the conventional reinforced concrete structure would reduce energy consumption by 3%∼5% and reduce CO2 emissions by 7%∼20%. The analyse of results demonstrates that bamboo residential buildings are more carbon-efficient in cold climates. Furthermore, this study clarifies the applicability and sustainability of bamboo construction materials and contributes to suggesting alternatives for the life cycle carbon reduction for residential buildings.
Bamboo as a sustainable construction material for residential buildings in the cold and severe cold regions of China
bamboo is a construction material with excellent mechanical and thermal properties. It also has excellent carbon storage capacity and is already widely recognized as a sustainable construction material. This study quantifies the bamboo’s potential for energy efficiency and carbon emission reduction throughout the building life cycle in the cold and severe cold regions of China. A six-storey residential building is applied as a case study for a comparison between reinforced concrete (RC) and laminated bamboo lumber (LBL) construction in five representative cities. The comparison considers the inventory analysis of the materialization, operation, and end-of-life (EoL) stage, energy consumption as simulated by the commercial software IES-VE, and carbon emissions assessed by a process-based method. The results for the five cities show that the use of bamboo instead of the conventional reinforced concrete structure would reduce energy consumption by 3%∼5% and reduce CO2 emissions by 7%∼20%. The analyse of results demonstrates that bamboo residential buildings are more carbon-efficient in cold climates. Furthermore, this study clarifies the applicability and sustainability of bamboo construction materials and contributes to suggesting alternatives for the life cycle carbon reduction for residential buildings.
Bamboo as a sustainable construction material for residential buildings in the cold and severe cold regions of China
Zhao, Bolun (author) / Yu, Yang (author) / Xu, Yitong (author) / Guo, Haibo (author)
Architectural Engineering and Design Management ; 20 ; 1511-1528
2024-11-01
18 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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