Quantitative assessment of the embodied environmental profile of building materials

Qinghua Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Tsinghua University

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1209-1213

  Gong, Zhiqi ^a,b   Zhang, Zhihui ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QINGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Building materials; Embodied environmental profile; Life cycle assessment (LCA)

Indexed keywords

CEMENT INDUSTRY; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; LIFE CYCLE;

EMBODIED ENVIRONMENTAL PROFILE; FLAT GLASS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; RESOURCE CONSUMPTION INDICATOR;

BUILDING MATERIALS;

EID: 10444256589     PISSN: 10000054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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