Optimizing life-cycle carbon emissions for achieving concrete credits in Australia

Vivian W. Y. Tam; Khoa N. Le; Cuong N. N. Tran

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-6190-5_95

Optimizing life-cycle carbon emissions for achieving concrete credits in Australia

Vivian W. Y. Tam, Khoa N. Le, Cuong N. N. Tran

Western Sydney University

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![CDATA[To fulfil the needs of the future, the Australian building sector seems to contemplate toward sustainable design. This paper presents a computer-aided model to calculate life-cycle carbon emissions for conventional and high-strength concrete to maximise Credit 19B.1: Life-cycle impacts—Concrete in the Green Star Design & As Built in Australia (GBCA 2015). The model has been built using Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic platforms, thus it is flexible and may be one of the simplest ways for concrete strength optimisation and its life-cycle carbon emissions. The model has been rigorously verified against manual calculation and existing findings such as ACI 211.4R-08 (American Concrete Institute 2008). Options to maximise Credit 19B.1 will be discussed for normal- and high-strength concrete containing aggregate, reclaimed water and alternative fine aggregate.]]

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, 14-17 December 2016, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Publisher	Springer
Pages	1077-1087
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	9789811061899
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6190-5_95
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate - Duration: 14 Dec 2016 → …

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Conference	International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate
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carbon dioxide
sustainable construction

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Tam, V. W. Y., Le, K. N., & Tran, C. N. N. (2018). Optimizing life-cycle carbon emissions for achieving concrete credits in Australia. In Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, 14-17 December 2016, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (pp. 1077-1087). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6190-5_95

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Optimizing life-cycle carbon emissions for achieving concrete credits in Australia. / Tam, Vivian W. Y.; Le, Khoa N.; Tran, Cuong N. N.
Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, 14-17 December 2016, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Springer, 2018. p. 1077-1087.

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