ENVIRONMENTAL LIFE-CYCLE COSTS OF BUILDING MATERIALS

Life-Cycle Assessment of Environmental Effects on Rapeseed Production

In recent years, increasing the awareness on the environmental problems, especially global warming, has increase the concerns about the impact of emissions on the global climate. The current study was conducted to evaluate and analyze the environmental effects of rapeseed production in the form of life cycle using SimaPro software with the aim concentration on climate changes and impact of acid...

Life-cycle Analysis of Wood Products: Cradle-to-gate Lci of Residential Wood Building Materials

This study compares the cradle-to-gate total energy and major emissions for the extraction of raw materials, production, and transportation of the common wood building materials from the CORRIM 2004 reports. A life-cycle inventory produced the raw materials, including fuel resources and emission to air, water, and land for glued-laminated timbers, kiln-dried and green softwood lumber, laminated...

Multi-objective Optimization of Product Life-Cycle Costs and Environmental Impacts

Towards an ERP life-cycle costs model

Many organizations have adopted ERP systems, but most of them are not aware of the total costs associated with them, and they only consider the costs related with the software acquisition. This article is an exploratory study that sets out to identify other costs related to ERP systems during their life-cycle. Through the different phases of the life-cycle we define and categorize the various c...

Leveraging Whole Life Cycle Costs When Utilising Building Information Modelling Technologies

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is now being increasingly used as a technology tool to assist design professions in conceiving, designing, constructing, and operating the built environment in many countries. The BIM model provides design professions with the framework to perform exercises in design, programming, cost and value management, and concept energy analysis, in order to achieve th...