One of the most debated topics in recent years corresponds to the increasing
phenomenon of Global Warming, which is directly linked to a sizable amount of the
carbon emissions emanated from the building sector. In the last decades, after the future
predictions of recognizable scientists, governments around the world denoted their
significance to combat the pollutant, by addressing to numerous researchers and
organizations to discover aspects of lessening effectively the Greenhouse Gas (GHG)
emissions. As an initial step for the reduction of the building’s pollutant to the
atmosphere, the development of the building envelope by the usage of wood-based
materials, in parallel with the participation on forthcoming and revolutionary
environmental projects and especially carbon offset schemes, was signified as essential.
The greatest challenge of existing governments is the persuading methods concerning
the contribution of people to the fundamental race of reducing the CO2 emissions,
involving the financial part. Hence, in order for the specific target to be achieved,
governments and private organizations worldwide, collaborated to fund carbon offset
programs related to energy efficiency interactions, along with the usage of low-carbon
materials, concluding to the mitigation of GHG emissions in the building sector.
However, for the accurate detection of the carbon emissions, and the appropriate
selection of construction materials concerning the building envelope, the application of
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is compulsory. Predominantly, the current dissertation
supervises one case study, focusing on the building construction materials, along with
the examination of the most impactful environmental categories, by the usage of an
LCA software, the so-called OpenLCA. In addition, the construction materials were
assessed in all the life cycle phases and illustrated in diagrams.
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