Improving the Environmental Performance of Australian Construction Projects

Towards a multiscale framework for modeling and improving the life cycle environmental performance of built stocks

Andre Stephan, Robert H Crawford, Victor Bunster, Georgia Warren-Myers, Sareh Moosavi

2022-04-01

Cities are complex sociotechnical systems, of which buildings and infrastructure assets (built stocks) constitute a critical part...

The EPiC database: Hybrid embodied environmental flow coefficients for construction materials

Robert H Crawford, Andre Stephan, Fabian Prideaux

2022-02-18

Demand for new buildings and infrastructure continues to grow and will only increase in coming years to cater for forecast growth ..

EPiC: Introducing a database of hybrid environmental flow coefficients for construction materials

RH Crawford, A Stephan, F Prideaux

2020-11-20

As worldwide consumption of materials continues to rise, there is growing pressure on material, energy and water resources and an ..

The impact of value engineering on embodied greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment: A hybrid life cycle assessment

Man Yu, Mehdi Robati, Philip Oldfield, Thomas Wiedmann, Robert H Crawford, Ali Akbar Nezhad, David Carmichael

2020-01-01

While traditional value engineering (VE) is primarily driven by cost saving, this study aims to comprehensively and reliably inves..

A model for streamlining and automating path exchange hybrid life cycle assessment

A Stephan, RH Crawford, PA Bontinck

2019-02-01

Purpose: Life cycle assessment (LCA) is inherently complex and time consuming. atypically involves the collection of data for doze..

A comprehensive database of environmental flow coefficients for construction materials: closing the loop in environmental design

Robert H Crawford, Andre Stephan, Fabian Prideaux

2019-01-01

Life cycle assessment is increasingly used to quantify and reduce the environmental effects of buildings. Embodied environmental e..

Environmental Performance in Construction (EPiC) Database: a database of embodied environmental flow coefficients

Robert H Crawford, Andre Stephan, Fabian Prideaux

2019-01-01

The EPiC Database contains environmental flow coefficients for over 250 common construction materials and products. Developed usin..

The Australian industrial ecology virtual laboratory and multi-scale assessment of buildings and construction

Timothy M Baynes, Robert H Crawford, Judith Schinabeck, Paul-Antoine Bontinck, Andre Stephan, Thomas Wiedmann, Manfred Lenzen, Steven Kenway, Man Yu, Soo Huey Teh, Joe Lane, Arne Geschke, Jacob Fry, Guangwu Chen

2018-04-01

As global population and urbanization increase, so do the direct and indirect environmental impacts of construction around the wor..

Embodied carbon in buildings: An Australian perspective

RH Crawford, A Stephan, M Schmidt

2018-01-28

Hybrid life cycle inventory methods – A review

RH Crawford, P Bontinck, A Stephan, T Wiedmann, M Yu

2018-01-20

Abstract A variety of methods can be used to compile a life cycle inventory (LCI) as part of a life cycle assessment (LCA) study. ..

Establishing a comprehensive database of construction material environmental flow coefficients for Australia

Robert H Crawford, Paul-Antoine Bontinck, Andre Stephan

2018-01-01

Improving the uptake of hybrid life cycle assessment in the construction industry

RH Crawford, PA Bontinck, A Stephan

2017-01-01

With building-related greenhouse gas emissions(GHGE) having more than doubled since 1970, they represent one of the largest and mo..

The carbon footprint of Australia's construction sector

M Yu, T Wiedmann, RH Crawford, C Tait

2017-01-01

Australia accounts for just 0.33% of the world's population yet it is one of the highest emitters of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission..

Towards an automated approach for compiling hybrid life cycle inventories

RH Crawford, P Bontinck, A Stephan, T Wiedmann

2017-01-01

There is an urgent need to reduce the environmental effects associated with the built environment. While a life cycle approach is ..

The relationship between house size and life cycle energy demand: Implications for energy efficiency regulations for buildings

A Stephan, RH Crawford

2016-12-01

House size has significantly increased over the recent decades in many countries. Larger houses often have a higher life cycle ene..