Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7494475 | Resources, Conservation and Recycling | 2018 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
The results show specific trends for material intensity and composition, but also for the mass distribution of different building elements. Additionally, it was shown that the number of floors and the footprint size of a building have a considerable impact on the MICs, especially for buildings with a low number of floors, such as SF structures. Furthermore, when compared to MIC databases from other countries, the study database, which relates to Sweden, shows a higher intensity for wood and steel. Finally, contradictory MIC results for similar geographical regions were highlighted and discussed. This showed that to achieve consistent standardized MIC databases, further analysis of MIC databases for different geographical scales and regions are needed, and this is therefore recommended.
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Authors
Paul Gontia, Claudio Nägeli, Leonardo Rosado, Yuliya Kalmykova, Magnus Ãsterbring,