Building materials, due to their mass and energy-consuming production processes, drastically increase the embodied energy of construction. This study assesses circularity processes for construction industry with a life cycle assessment (LCA) case located in large cosmopolitan city. The research concludes that significant decrease environmental impacts results from shift recycled materials phase...

Assessing the performance or energy efficiency of a single construction element by itself is often a futile exercise. That is not the case, however, when an element is designed, among others, to improve building energy performance by harnessing renewable energy in a process that requires a source of external energy. Harnessing renewable energy is acquiring growing interest in Mediterranean clim...

Lignocellulosic materials are commonly used in bio-H2 production for the sustainable energy resource development as they are abundant, cheap, renewable and highly biodegradable. In the process of the bio-H2 production, the pretreated lignocellulosic materials are firstly converted to monosaccharides by enzymolysis and then to H2 by fermentation. Since the structures of lignocellulosic materials...

A complete biobased process towards polymers and coatings using starting materials derived from renewable resources implementing sustainable synthetic steps.

Natural resources are being continuously extracted for the production of concrete which leads to degradation ecosystem. This is also a challenge sustainability save Nature. study seeks identify suitable replacement material river sand and stone aggregate sustainable utilization renewable sources. Manufactured (M-sand) from industrial by-products coconut shell (CS), an agricultural waste, select...