• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
  • Beteiligte: Horvath, Arpad
  • Erschienen: Annual Reviews, 2004
  • Erschienen in: Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1146/annurev.energy.29.062403.102215
  • ISSN: 1545-2050; 1543-5938
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p> ▪ Abstract  No other industry in the United States uses more materials by weight than the construction industry. Because of its economic strength and societal importance, it is also a significant polluter and a target of growing stakeholder scrutiny. This review offers an extended, supply chain inclusive framework for the study of the construction industry that serves all the life-cycle stages of society's infrastructure systems, and it summarizes selected literature on the life-cycle environmental assessment of construction materials, designs, and processes. On the basis of identified knowledge gaps, a research agenda is discussed for lesser-studied questions in order to first understand and then eventually reduce the environmental impacts of construction materials, processes, and activities. </jats:p>
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