Assessment of CO2 emissions reduction in a distribution warehouse

Deepak Rai, Behzad Sodagar, Rosi Fieldson and Xiao Hu

Energy, 2011, vol. 36, issue 4, 2271-2277

Abstract: Building energy use accounts for almost 50% of the total CO2 emissions in the UK. Most of the research has focused on reducing the operational impact of buildings, however in recent years many studies have indicated the significance of embodied energy in different building types. This paper primarily focuses on illustrating the relative importance of operational and embodied energy in a flexible use light distribution warehouse. The building is chosen for the study as it is relatively easy to model and represents many distribution centres and industrial warehouses in Europe.

Keywords: Embodied impact; CO2 emissions; Operational impact; Carbon footprint; Distribution warehouses (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2010.05.006

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