Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Impacts of Building Materials: Evaluating Transport-Related Factors

The 4th International Conference on Advances in Environmental Engineering Pub Date : 2023-11-28 DOI:10.3390/engproc2023057005

A. Eštoková, Martina Fabiánová, Marek Radačovský

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: The construction industry plays a signiﬁcant role in resource consumption and environmental degradation, making it crucial to analyze the sustainability aspects of construction materials and their transportation processes. This paper focuses on conducting a life cycle assessment (LCA) analysis of building materials, speciﬁcally considering the environmental impacts associated with their transportation to construction sites. By incorporating the transport phase into the assessment, a more holistic understanding of the environmental implications of construction materials can be achieved. The study aims to quantify the environmental burdens of both material production and transportation, providing valuable insights for sustainable decision making in the construction industry. The analysis revealed that transport of building materials for the studied house by diesel lorry, covering a distance of 150 km, contributed 16% to climate change and a signiﬁcant 53.5% to abiotic resource depletion. Additionally, it had a 15–18% impact on acidiﬁcation and photo-oxidant formation.

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建筑材料的生命周期评估和环境影响：评估与运输有关的因素

:建筑业在资源消耗和环境退化方面扮演着重要角色，因此分析建筑材料及其运输过程的可持续性至关重要。本文的重点是对建筑材料进行生命周期评估（LCA）分析，特别是考虑将建筑材料运输到建筑工地对环境造成的影响。通过将运输阶段纳入评估，可以更全面地了解建筑材料对环境的影响。这项研究旨在量化材料生产和运输对环境造成的负担，为建筑行业的可持续决策提供有价值的见解。分析表明，使用柴油货车运输所研究房屋的建筑材料，全程 150 公里，对气候变化的影响为 16%，对非生物资源损耗的影响高达 53.5%。此外，它还对酸化和光氧化物的形成产生了 15-18% 的影响。

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