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Life Cycle Impact Assessment of masonry system as inner walls: A case study in Brazil

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    Identifier: PC:940
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    Condeixa, K., Haddad, A., Boer, D.
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    Author, as appears in the article.: Condeixa, K., Haddad, A., Boer, D.
    Department: Enginyeria Mecànica
    Abstract: The Life Cycle Assessment enables us to determine environmental loads associated to products, processes or activities. This paper uses this methodology to evaluate the impact of inner walls, considering as case study a traditional house in Brazil, made by: ceramic bricks masonry and sand and cement mortar. The impacts are assessed with the CML2001 method for a lifespan of the building of 50 years. Results show which phase has the greatest influence over life cycle impacts, the most impactful material-component, the waste behavior and other peculiarities of life cycle impacts derived from masonry walls. In addition, we created a method for estimating the demand for materials, waste generation and distance traveled in the transportation of materials and waste. This method can assist not only, in environmental assessment, but also in construction and waste management, and policy development
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Keyword in other language: Building materials CML2001 Life Cycle Impact Assessment Masonry
    ISSN: 0950-0618
    Last page: 147
    Journal volume: 70
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
    Link to the original source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950061814008770
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2014.07.113
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
    Journal publication year: 2014
    First page: 141