Material Flow Analysis and environmental impacts assessment of the construction sector in Brazil

Identifier:  TDX:2593

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX2593

Authors:  de Macedo Soares Pires Condeixa, Karina

Abstract:
The extensive use of materials in buildins stocks contributes to the scarcity of natural resources and waste disposal on the environment. Material Flow Analysis (MFA) has been used as a tool to achieve dematerialization and sustainability of buildings stocks. This thesis is organized in three main chapters. The first chapter presents a literature review and a bibliometric analysis for supprting the systematic use of MFA. The second chapter proposes a method based on MFA to model the residential building stock in the city of Rio de Janeiro and their material and waste flows, in order to characterize the stock. The third chapter introduces the combinated use if MFA and Life Cycle Assessment methodologies to model waste flows from a building stock and to assess its life cycle impacts. In summary, this Thesis explores the variants of the MFA and promotes a broadly analysis of a building stocks and life cycle impacts from waste flows.