scholarly journals THE FUTURE OF GREEN BUILDING MATERIALS IN EGYPT: A FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Azouz
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Green Building Materials ◽  
Whole Life Cycle

Sustainable development has become a significant worldwide concern. The past few years have seen a lot of changes. Some of these affect how we do approach - and how we should approach - environmental issues. Because of their adverse impacts to sustainability, knowledge about building materials became a crucial dimension of green change in building and design. The problem is that in Egypt there is still no database for green building ma-terials. In spite that there are currently over 120 international green labelling programs for building materials worldwide, they cannot be locally used. This is because building materials and the way they are extracted, manufactured, used, transported, recycled or disposed differ from country to country. All these factors result in insufficiency of data & information on green building materials and those who are involved in the design, construction & man-agement of building materials are acutely lacking the basic information on materials that would allow them to make constructive changes. That's why the introduction of a system for specification, assessment & se-lection of green building materials is considered to be one of the corner-stones of promoting sustainable green building development in Egypt as an attempt to fulfil Goal 11 of the Sustainable Development Goals developed by the United Nations to make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable by 2030. The aim of the research is to develop a framework for a system for evaluat-ing sustainability of building materials in Egypt to achieve greener steps to-wards sustainability with a new way of scoring sustainability of building materials that evaluates both positive & negative ecological, social & health and economic impacts through the whole life cycle. This system could be applied in the development of the New Cites that considers the unique chal-lenges of the region and the local market and could be applied all over the country taking into consideration the nature of each region with its available building materials and specific climatic conditions and the different regional priorities and requirements. The research was based on an inductive approach through studying & analy-sis of the life cycle of the building materials, the different aspects and crite-ria for the evaluation of green building materials, currently available re-sources of information about building materials in Egypt and the interna-tional & national reference values & benchmarks that could be used as a base for the new system. Findings will lead to a proposed framework of a system for specification and assessment of green building materials in Egypt. This framework de-scribes all the kind of information required and the procedures that should be taken for the development of the system from collecting data till the es-tablishment of online guide for green building materials and a digital library for accessible and reliable information on green building materials that ena-bles building designers, constructors and developers to make reasoned choices based upon the health & environmental impacts of their decisions and eases the use & selection of Green Building materials in Egypt over the coming years.

Discuss on Green Building Materials and Related Issues

2011 ◽  
Vol 280 ◽  
pp. 165-170
Author(s):  
Shi Jin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Future Trend ◽  
Life Cycle Model ◽  
Cycle Model ◽  
Green Building Materials ◽  
The Evaluation System

Green building materials as an important factor plays important role in the promote sustainable development. However, at present a unified understanding on the green building materials in China have not been formed,the evaluation system of green building materials is not perfect.In this paper,the concept and features of green building materials are discussed deeply,and life cycle model is used to evaluate the green building materials.The status and future trend of green building materials are discussed too.

The Development of Green Building Materials Trend in China

2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 1070-1073
Author(s):  
Bao Zhu Sheng
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Building Material ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Engineering Construction ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Green Building Materials ◽  
History Of ◽  
Development Tendency

Building material is the base of civil engineering construction, in the history of thousands of years of development, building materials also gradually change and change, and is closely related to the progress of human civilization and the development of science and technology.Green building materials has the vital significance to the construction of a conservation-oriented society and sustainable development, in accordance with China's social development.This paper introduces the importance of the development of green building materials,analyzes some factors influencing the development of green building materials in China,and discusses the development tendency of green building materials in China.

Green.Energy-Saving.Comfortable - The Research of the Rural Residential Design in New Period

2013 ◽  
Vol 361-363 ◽  
pp. 253-256
Author(s):  
Pan Wang ◽  
Guo Qing Li
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Conservation ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Residential Energy ◽  
The Sustainable Development

At present, China is in a period of rapid development of urbanization. However, the current focus of architectural design is mainly in the city, which makes rural residential development has lagged far behind in the town. In fact, in the country's vast rural areas still exists many problems, and the problems of energy-saving are still in the initial stage. Meanwhile, the future development of the rural areas will affect China's overall level of development directly, therefore, promoting and developing green building in rural areas, will be conducive to the sustainable development of our country. The thesis combines the practical problems of the rural areas, discussed the content of the rural residential energy conservation design in detail from the perspective of sustainable development, from the planning and layout, building materials, energy utilization and other aspects, in order to provide a reference for the development of rural residential energy conservation.

Selection of Green Building Materials for Energy-Saving Exterior Windows

2015 ◽  
Vol 814 ◽  
pp. 504-518
Author(s):  
Chun Zhi Zhao ◽  
Quan Jiang ◽  
Li Ping Ma ◽  
Ping Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Full Life Cycle ◽  
Green Building Materials ◽  
Full Life ◽  
Selection Of

Urban population has been increased rapidly and caused such urban problems as shortage of housing and traffic jam, and the continuously expanding buildings have resulted in strong impact on global resource consumption and environmental pollution. Green building materials are the basic guarantee to the quality and service life of buildings, the material carrier to realize various functions of buildings and also the foundation and support to develop green buildings. Based on the coherence and relevance of assessment on full life cycle of buildings and building materials, the influence of exterior window selection on carbon emission of buildings was analyzed in aspects of the initial stage (production, consumption and transport of building materials) of carbon emission of buildings, i.e. the intrinsic energy per unit product, operation, demolition and treatment. The comprehensive assessment was also established, and the selection of green building materials was investigated for exterior windows based on the reduction of energy consumption during full life cycle of buildings by combining such indicators as the usability, durability, fireproofness, environmental protection and functionality of exterior windows. It solved the puzzles of architects on selection of building materials and the puzzles of building material manufacturers on demand of green buildings. The selection of green building materials on green buildings was promoted and the realization of the goal of "green buildings" also assisted.

scholarly journals Embedded Life Cycle Costing Elements in Green Building Rating Tool

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 750-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jam Shahzaib Khan ◽  
Rozana Zakaria ◽  
Eeydzah Aminudin ◽  
Nur Izie Adiana Abidin ◽  
Mohd Affifuddin Mahyuddin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Life Cycle Cost ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Life Cycle Costing ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Resource Degradation ◽  
Development Goals

Green Building rating tools are the essential need of this era, to cope up with the sustainable development goals, climate change, and natural resource degradation through buildings. Realization of green building incentives decently increased within past few decades with abrupt declination in real estate markets and economic depletion has decelerated the interest of investors towards the green building projects. This research calculates influence of costing elements in MyCREST (IS-design) using questionnaire survey distributed amongst qualified professionals (QP’S) of green buildings and expert practitioners. Firstly, factor score and then weightage factor was performed to produce the final result with weightage output for evaluating weighatge and ranking of the relevant criteria of MyCREST and life cycle cost elements respectively. It is found that the criteria of storm water management has weighatge of 0.236 as highest and criteria environmental management plan (EMP) as 0.061 as lowest. Research also identified another perspective by finding association of cost element at design stage of MyCREST and found that management cost is highly associated at design stage with the value of 87.7%. The outcome of this research will add value to green building development and map road towards sustainable development using green building tools to uplift quality of life. Furthermore, this paves a way to integrate various stages of MyCREST with life cycle costing tool to potentially contribute in evaluating cost association through green building rating tool.

scholarly journals Application of green building materials in the field of construction and sustainable development

2021 ◽  
Vol 308 ◽  
pp. 01001
Author(s):  
Yuxuan Hu ◽  
Jue Wang ◽  
Xueru Wang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Foam Glass ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Research Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
Green Building Materials ◽  
Green Walls ◽  
Reduce Energy Consumption

Green building materials are a new category. Compared with the past building materials, ideal building materials have a series of characteristics such as reducing energy consumption, reducing emissions, saving resources, and being recyclable, which makes them become an important reference for sustainable development. This article focuses on foam glass, green walls, and ecological cement. During the research process, it was found that foam glass has better characteristics than ordinary glass, and less waste is generated during the production process, which reduces pollution; The green wall can not only reduce energy consumption, but also absorb harmful substances, and the plant exterior wall can also make people comfortable; Ecological cement can be made from waste materials, which greatly saves resources and realizes recycling. In short, green building materials are an important method to achieve sustainable development and will certainly play an important role in the future construction field.

scholarly journals Study on the superiority of a high polymer (HDPE) self-adhered waterproofing membrane in construction

2020 ◽  
Vol 194 ◽  
pp. 05014
Author(s):  
Yudian Li ◽  
Na Li ◽  
Yanjun Shi ◽  
Zhijun Jia
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
High Polymer ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Waterproofing Membrane

With the rapid development of urbanization in China, people’s requirements for the quality of life and environment are constantly improving. However, the shortage of resources and the deterioration of environment are becoming more and more serious. Environmental protection has become the only way for the sustainable development of society. Therefore, the application of more and more new green building materials has become the key to the sustainable development of the construction industry. In the face of the rapid development of modern construction industry, engineering quality and functional requirements have become the basic requirements, the green environmental protection has become a higher requirement. The application of green environmental protection building materials in engineering construction is the main development direction of the transformation of modern construction industry. At the same time, it conforms to the policy of environmentally sustainable development of all sectors of society, and promotes the construction industry to meet the higher requirements of green environmental protection living environment. This paper studied the performance and waterproof mechanism of a kind of high polymer (HDPE) self-adhered waterproofing membrane and its application in construction. Compared with the traditional waterproofing membrane, the high polymer self-adhered waterproofing membrane can give full play to the advantages of environmental protection on the premise of meeting the building quality.

Based on RFID Prefabricated Building Component Design and Monitoring System Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 983 ◽  
pp. 359-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Wang
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Operation Condition ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Component Design ◽  
Traditional Mode ◽  
Intelligent Technology ◽  
Environmental Protection Policies ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Whole Life Cycle

Long-term since, our country concrete building mainly adopts the construction of the traditional mode of production, design and build extensive, poor operation condition, high labor intensity, large building materials loss and building garbage, construction quality is not stable, the whole life cycle of building energy consumption is high, the low degree of industrialization, and the energy conservation, emission reduction and environmental protection policies carried out by the state. Prefabricated buildings are the main characteristics of the sustainable development of construction industry, the integration of the supply chain of the project life cycle, emphasizes the decisive automation and intelligent technology. The emergence of the RFID theory for the research of prefabricated construction provides a new perspective.

How to Lead Green Construction’s Sustainable Development by Low Carbon Ideology

2011 ◽  
Vol 243-249 ◽  
pp. 6427-6432
Author(s):  
Xiao Li Fan
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Conservation ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Sustainable Buildings ◽  
Evaluation Systems ◽  
Overall Design ◽  
Green Building Materials

From energy conservation to green building to low carbon building, the construction industry’s sustainable development research has been undergoing and exploring continuously. The future sustainable buildings will focus more on reducing carbon emission, energy conservation, green and environmental protection. This article will analyze several paths to realize low carbon architectures from different aspects like green building materials, energy conservation, overall design, and green construction and evaluation systems.

Carbon Emissions Analysis of Rock Wool Board Products

2020 ◽  
Vol 993 ◽  
pp. 1545-1551
Author(s):  
Meng Chi Huang ◽  
Yan Jiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Green Building Materials ◽  
Sheet Products ◽  
Rock Wool

Green building materials have drawn more and more attention of the Chinese Government. Carbon footprint research on typical building materials products in China is of great significance to promote the sustainable development of building materials industry and realize the objectives of series actions on carbon dioxide emissions control in China. This paper explores the calculation method for carbon emissions of building materials products by taking rock wool sheet products as an example based on the life cycle idea and the characteristics of China's building materials industry. It also puts forward effective emission reduction suggestions through a comparative analysis of carbon emissions in different stages of rock wool production. The results show that the carbon emissions during the production of rock wool sheet is 1471.77 kgCO2eq/t, in which, the proportion of carbon emissions in the raw materials production stage is the highest, accounting for 58%.

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