Evaluating environmental impacts of alternative construction waste management approaches using supply-chain-linked life-cycle analysis

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 500-508

  Kucukvar, Murat ^a   Egilmez, Gokhan ^b   Tatari, Omer ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b North Dakota State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction waste management; environmental footprint; hybrid life cycle assessment; supply chain; sustainability; US buildings

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; CARBON; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CHAINS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LIFE CYCLE; SUPPLY CHAINS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WASTE INCINERATION; WASTE TREATMENT;

CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION; CONSTRUCTION WASTE MANAGEMENTS; DECISION MAKING MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINTS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; SUSTAINABLE TREATMENTS; WASTE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES;

WATER RECYCLING;

CARBON; WATER; PLASTIC; SOLID WASTE;

ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; CARBON FOOTPRINT; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INCINERATION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; WASTE MANAGEMENT; ANALYSIS; BUILDING INDUSTRY; ENVIRONMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PAPER; PROCEDURES; SOLID WASTE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY; WOOD;

CARBON; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; ENVIRONMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INCINERATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PAPER; PLASTICS; RECYCLING; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOLID WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITIES; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WOOD;

EID: 84904764030     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X14536457     Document Type: Article

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