Construction industry is considered as one of the main contributor of natural resources depletion, responsible for high level pollution and it is one of the attributes that pose climate changes and other environmental threats. A lot of efforts had and have been done to reduce and control these impacts. Project Environmental Management (PEM) includes the processes required to ensure that the imp...

This study proposes a model linking firm motivations for seeking ISO 14001 certification to the effectiveness of three major components of an environmental management system (EMS)--environmental policy, the assessment of environmental aspect and impacts, and management review. The relationship of these EMS components with a self-reported measure of environmental performance is also examined. Fr...

This analysis aims to show the impact of COVID-19 on environment, particularly in countries, which are deadly affected by COVID-19, such countries include China, USA, Italy, and Spain. Our experiment suggested that there significant contingency measures improvements air quality, clean beaches, rivers, environmental noise reduction. However, other side, some negative effects COVID -19 as reducti...

According to the IEA Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction 2019, one of main industry sectors causing environmental impacts is construction sector. Hence, materials from renewable resources are expected have a large potential decrease these impacts. In this study, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) was conducted four different insulation feedstock: made pasture grass, seaweed, reed, recy...

Government, business, and the general public increasingly agree that the polluter should pay. Carbon dioxide and environmental damage are considered viable chargeable commodities. The net effect of this for data center and cloud computing operators is that they should look to “chargeback” the environmental impacts of their services to the consuming end-users. An environmental chargeback model c...