Recent Developments on Life Cycle Assessment of Building Materials

Abstract:

In recent years, the building materials industry in China has made great progress in the R&D of energy conservation, emission reduction and cleaner production technologies, in order to implement sustainable development policy. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is one of the mainstream method to analyze the environmental impact of product during its life cycle, which plays an important role on ecological design of building materials and development of green manufacture technology in recent year. This paper reviewed the LCA studies of building materials. Firstly, the development of China's building materials industry and technical framework of LCA standardized by ISO14040/14044 were introduced. Moreover, the typical LCA case studies of cement, glass, ceramics, wall materials, insulation materials and other building materials were reviewed. At last, some prospects for future research and development in this field were put forward.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 993)
• Pages: 1534-1544
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.993.1534
• Online since: May 2020
• Authors: Ning Liu, Yu Liu*, Xian Zheng Gong, Li Wei Hao, Feng Gao, Xiao Qing Li, Yan Zheng
• Keywords: Building Materials, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

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