Environmental Impacts of Construction in Building Industry—A Review of Knowledge Advances, Gaps and Future Directions

The building-and-construction industry has been researched extensively over its life cycle regarding green and sustainable processes techniques due to major contributions towards energy consumption environmental impacts. Over the past decade, construction stage of a building is often criticized for overlooking or approximating impacts as compared other life-cycle stages building. This evident through strong research findings in building-emission-assessment studies. With drive digitization, receiving significant attention order minimize at stage. Despite these initiatives, only handful recent review studies have systematically furnished current advances, gaps future directions environmentally building-construction techniques. study represents systematic literature with objective identifying findings, scopes. A bibliometric assessment revealed key author contributions, areas collaboration aspects works related projects. Four barriers knowledge conducting comprehensive were identified, including lack definition generic system boundary, difficulties data collection, complex modeling issues complications classification analysis emissions. would provide passionate construction-industry stakeholders who are keen benchmark practices industry.