Residential housing building scheme for global warming mitigation
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Date
2014
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Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Abstract
The awareness of climate change phenomena to minimizing the greenhouse gases is vital for the planet. The building sector contributes up to 30% of global annual greenhouse gas emissions and consumes up to 40% of all use energy. The goal of this research is to improve the global warming mitigation of building construction scheme by advocate to alternative building components. The aim of this research is assessing the contribution of each building material and building scheme in wall and roof component towards the climate change. Meanwhile it suggests and provides the new building scheme for construction that is more environmental friendly. The Global Warming Potential (GWP) calculated using IPCC 2007 method developed by the Inter Panel on Climate Change in SIMAPRO. Software is comparing the carbon footprint made by the different types of building material in the building scheme. The research is comparing seven different existing building schemes and result reveals that timber house has less effect on environment and therefore it is chosen as best option of material for construction. Nowadays mostly buildings constructions are using an alternative material such as brick or concrete in Malaysia. Due to Malaysian‘s hot and humid climate, wood encounter many defections and deterioration that effect structure. This research is proposing a new approach to minimize the effect of carbon footprint as well as encouraging the Malaysian construction to apply wood components onto the building scheme. The thesis recommend a sustainable new combinations of components for building scheme contains of timber wall panels in a concrete frames, timber wall panels with timber beam laminate by steel, finally combination of exterior concrete wall with interior timber panel
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Thesis (PhD. (Civil Engineering))
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Building—Environmental aspects, Building materials—Environmental aspects, Sustainable construction