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- Title
Life-Cycle Assessment of Construction in a Developing Country.
- Authors
Asadollahfardi, G.; Asadi, M.; Karimi, S.
- Abstract
The construction industry plays a great role in a country's or an area's economy. Construction activities also have significant and increasing effects on the environment. Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is one of the environmental management techniques that can be used to evaluate the environmental burdens of construction. The authors of this study applied the LCA approach and SimaPro 7.1 software within the framework of the International Organization of Standardization's (ISO) 14040 series of standards and analyzed the global warming potential (GWP) and acidification potential (AP) of the materials acquisition and construction phases of the Parand residential apartment complex located in the southwest part of Tehran province, Iran.
- Subjects
TEHRAN (Iran); IRAN; CONSTRUCTION industry &; economics; CONSTRUCTION industry &; the environment; ENVIRONMENTAL management; ECOLOGICAL engineering; INTERNATIONAL Organization for Standardization
- Publication
Environmental Quality Management, 2015, Vol 24, Issue 4, p11
- ISSN
1088-1913
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/tqem.21398