Sentence examples for low carbon construction from inspiring English sources

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills' 2010 report on Low Carbon Construction concluded that construction was responsible for around 300m tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, which is almost 47% of the UK's total.

A number of studies have evaluated life-cycle CO2 emissions and related emission-reduction technologies that can contribute towards a low carbon construction industry; specific attention has also been paid to apartment buildings.

Secondly, investigate the relationships amongst embodied energy, greenhouse gases, construction waste, cost and time variables, that can facilitate the quantification process and hence potentially facilitate the engagement into low carbon building design by construction professionals.

This is an example of a collaborative endeavour to implement a novel low-carbon construction technology in the field.

We analyse in detail several policies and instruments, and formulate relevant policy proposals fostering low-carbon construction technology in China.

White will use ash collected from incineration facilities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania to examine how this byproduct can be more efficiently converted into a low-carbon construction material.

Low-carbon construction was found to be dependent upon multiple factors including the practitioners' ability to convince the clients with a comprehensive cost-benefits analysis and a greater understanding for the relationship between embodies carbon and energy efficiency.

Additionally, the ecological evaluation demonstrates that γ-C2S would hopefully reduce 40% of the CO2 emissions compared to ordinary cement, which opens up a new area of a novel low-carbon construction material.

This study provides useful implication toward achieving scientific landscape plans for low carbon city construction.

In keeping with this, reported work was carried out to assess the environmental impact of BS EN 197-1 binand and ternary cement concretes and thus their suitability for use in low carbon concrete construction.

Kuittinen (2015a) presented a method for setting benchmark levels for low carbon humanitarian construction: the emissions of humanitarian shelters are compared to the per capita GHG emissions of their countries.