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Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emission Analyses for Green Star's Concrete Credits in Australia.
- Source :
- IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management; Aug2019, Vol. 66 Issue 3, p286-298, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- To fulfil the needs of the future, the Australian building sector seems to contemplate toward sustainable design. A Green Star Environmental Rating System is one of many green-building rating systems that has been employed throughout the world. For this rating system, the “Material” category occupies 14% of credit points, which could be achieved from eight major categories. To help engineers and designers have simple tools to process sustainable projects, this paper develops a computer-aided model to calculate life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for conventional and high-strength concrete to maximize Credit 19B.1: Life-cycle impacts—Concrete in the Green Star Design and As Built in Australia. The model has been built under Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic platforms; thus, it is flexible and appears to be one of the effective ways to provide concrete mixture design using its life-cycle GHG emissions. Options to maximize Credit 19B.1 have also been discussed for normal and high-strength concrete. The model demonstrates the relationship between the utilization of supplementary cementitious material, coarse and fine aggregates used in concrete, a water-to-cement ratio with concrete strength, as well as sustainable points to be achieved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00189391
- Volume :
- 66
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 137645773
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2018.2832094