Life cycle assessment of the end-of-life phase of a residential building

Waste Management

Volumn 60, Issue , 2017, Pages 311-321

  Vitale, Pierluca ^a   Arena, Noemi ^b   Di Gregorio, Fabrizio ^c   Arena, Umberto ^a,c  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c Ctro Regionale di Competenza Analisi e Monitoraggio del Rischio Ambientale of the Campania district   (Italy)

Author keywords

Construction and demolition waste; Life cycle assessment; Recycling; Resource recovery; Selective demolition

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DEMOLITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HOUSING; NATURAL RESOURCES; RECOVERY; RECYCLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

APPROPRIATE TECHNIQUES; CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE; CONVENTIONAL MATERIALS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); MULTI-FAMILY DWELLING; RESOURCE RECOVERY; WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

LIFE CYCLE;

BUILDING; CONSTRUCTION; DEMOLITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; RECOVERY; RECYCLING; SOLID WASTE;

ARTICLE; BUILDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ITALY; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY; RECYCLING; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; ANALYSIS; BUILDING MATERIAL; HOUSING; SOLID WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ITALY;

SOLID WASTE;

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; HOUSING; ITALY; RECYCLING; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOLID WASTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85002061879     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2016.10.002     Document Type: Article

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