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Decision making process assisted by life cycle assessment: greenhouse gas emission
Zeule Ludimilla de Oliveira 1*
,
Vinhal Laís David 2
,
Sheyla Mara Baptista Serra3
,
Douglas Barreto3
,
,
,
1Federal University of São Carlos, Streamlining and Buildings Performance Research Center (NUPRE), Doctoral student at the Structures and Civil Engineering Post-graduation Program (PPGECiv), São Carlos (SP), Brazil
2Federal University of São Carlos, NUPRE, Master student at PPGECiv, São Carlos (SP), Brazil
3Federal University of São Carlos, NUPRE, Professor at PPGECiv, São Carlos (SP), Brazil
*교신저자. *Corresponding Author. 
June 2017. pp. 244-253
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Abstract

The concept of sustainability has been spreading in the construction industry, introducing tools and methods that may assist in the process of decision making and allowing improvements in management techniques as much as in production processes. Thus, this research aims the selection of materials by means of the proposition of a decision making method - the Choosing by Advantage (CBA) assisted by the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). It was adopted a commonly employed component in temporary facilities of construction sites in the construction industry, the tiles. The adopted tiles were composed by recycled material (polyethylene - aluminum) and by non - recycled materials (galvanized steel). It was applied a multi-criteria methodology, in which the CBA method proposes the analysis of the best type of tile according to sustainability parameters - ecological, economic and social. In this study, LCA complements the CBA by means of the evaluation of environmental impacts, where the factor “Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (Emission CO2eq)” was examined as a factor generated by the transportation of the tiles from the factory to the authorized reseller. By means of the implementation of the decision making method, it was verified the feasibility regarding the application of the LCA as a support tool to the CBA method for the selection of materials that cause less impact as a positively complementary methodology. It is concluded that the adopted methodology assists in the dissemination of sustainability in the stage of execution, according to a systemic approach based on sound information.

Keywords
sustainability
decision making method
Life Cycle Assessment
tiles
carbon dioxide equivalent emission

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  • Publisher :Sustainable Building Research Center (ERC) Innovative Durable Building and Infrastructure Research Center
  • Publisher(Ko) :건설구조물 내구성혁신 연구센터
  • Journal Title :International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development
  • Volume : 8
  • No :2
  • Pages :244-253
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.12972/susb.20170022
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