Life cycle building impact of a Middle Eastern residential neighborhood

Catherine De Wolf, Carlos Cerezo, Zainab Murtadhawi, Ali Hajiah, Adil Al Mumin, John Ochsendorf and Christoph Reinhart

Energy, 2017, vol. 134, issue C, 336-348

Abstract: Life cycle impacts in buildings includes operational carbon for heating, cooling, hot water, ventilation, lighting, on the one hand, and embodied carbon for material supply, production, transport, construction and disassembly, on the other. Improved operational carbon has increased the percentage of embodied carbon in the total life cycle of buildings. Kuwait is looking at enhancing the sustainability of its built environment, as there is an urgent need to expand and build new cities. This research analyses the sustainability of the Middle Eastern built environment in order to provide the most appropriate strategies to respond to this demand.

Keywords: Embodied and operational impacts; Energy and carbon; Urban modeling; Buildings; Kuwaiti homes; Energy efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.06.026

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