Zoya Zakai

Thesis/DRP/Capstone Project

There is limited quantitative information available about the environmental impacts of the production and manufacturing of construction materials, and the actual process of construction and demolition particularly in developing countries like India .Current embodied energy (EE) data embodied carbon (EC) databases exhibit inaccuracy and variability because of inconsistent methodologies that are used to determine the embodied energy of building materials. This leaves the industry with published embodied energy values that are not comparable. Development of a co-relation factor or an equation shall enable estimation of the embodied energy and embodied carbon for residential buildings with different built-up areas having the same load bearing structural design when the quantification of one is known. It will help to put control over the permissibility of emissions for buildings during design and construction by optimizing the use of construction materials. This estimation will further help in devising carbon mitigation strategies for development in consideration of the environmental impact at urban level.