Abstract:
A term sustainable is widely used in every branch of human activity, including ivil engineering. Exploitation of raw materials and natural
resources, consuming of energy from non-renewable sources, air, water
and soil pollution or creation of massive amounts of waste belong to serious
issues of society. Each building process, including extraction of raw
material, transportation, production of components, build-up, operation
or demolition of buildings poses the negative environment impacts.
Besides buildings operation, which is the most energy demanding phase
of the life cycle and the phase with the majority of greenhouse and acidifying
gasses emissions, selection of material basis is very important.
Production of many materials is very non-ecological and requires huge
amounts of energy, usually derived from fossil fuels.
In this paper materials of a single-family house were analyzed from environmental
point of view on the basis of life cycle assessment. Parameters
such as amount of used material, global warming potential, acidification
potential and primary energy intensity were evaluated. On first occasion
the negative influence of build-up was analyzed and the environmental
profile of building was created. In the assessed building, amount of primary
energy intensity reached 441394.3 MJ, amount of CO2 emissions
reached 34953.6 kg CO2eq and SO2 emissions reached 129.9 kg SO2eq.
Subsequently, important actions, such as optimization of material base
and constructional design should follow to improve the environmental
profile of building in terms of used building materials.
Keywords:
Building materials,
environmental
assessment, energy
consumption, global
warming, acidification
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