What is it about?
Brazilian construction industry lacks consistent information to support sustainability-oriented decision-making processes. We ran LCA calculations for key building materials and produced EPD-like descriptions of different case studies that configure initial benchmarks of typical construction typologies in the country.
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Why is it important?
The disclosure of embodied energy and carbon, as well as of other environmental performance data at whole-building level allows comparability and helps to establish performance goals and benchmarks and to guide policy decisions.
Perspectives
Given the lack of a coordinated methodological outline in Brazil, our main contribution was to provide a guideline to gradually constitute a LCI database that enables the use of the proposed metrics and of LCA as decision-making tools in the building sector. Studies on other typologies are being carried out to enlarge the benchmark base and provide a better basis for comparison and environmental goal setting.
Professor vanessa gomes da silva
UNICAMP
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This page is a summary of: Material eco-efficiency indicators for Brazilian buildings, Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, May 2014, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/sasbe-04-2013-0024.
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