Global Warming Implications of the Use of By-Products and Recycled Materials in Western Australia’s Housing Sector
Western Australia’s housing sector is growing rapidly and around half a million houses are expected to be built by 2030, which not only will result in increased energy and resources demand but will have socio-economic impacts. Majority of Western Australians live in detached houses made of energy in...
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| author | Lawania, K. Sarker, Prabir Biswas, Wahidul |
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| description | Western Australia’s housing sector is growing rapidly and around half a million houses are expected to be built by 2030, which not only will result in increased energy and resources demand but will have socio-economic impacts. Majority of Western Australians live in detached houses made of energy intensive clay bricks, which have a high potential to generate construction and demolition (C&D) waste. Therefore, there is a need to look into the use of alternative materials and construction methods. Due to Western Australia’s temperate climate, concrete could not only offer a comfortable living space but an operational energy saving also can be achieved. This paper has assessed the global warming implications of cast in-situ concrete sandwich wall system as an alternative to clay brick walls (CBW) with partial replacement of cement in concrete with by-products such as fly ash (FA) and ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS), natural aggregate (NA) with recycled crushed aggregate (RCA), natural sand (NS) with manufactured sand (MS) and, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) foam core as a replacement to polystyrene core for construction of a typical 4 × 2 × 2 detached house in Perth. Life cycle management (LCM) approach has been used to determine global warming reduction benefits due to the use of available by-products and recycled materials in Western Australian houses. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-284652017-09-13T15:22:17Z Global Warming Implications of the Use of By-Products and Recycled Materials in Western Australia’s Housing Sector Lawania, K. Sarker, Prabir Biswas, Wahidul Western Australia’s housing sector is growing rapidly and around half a million houses are expected to be built by 2030, which not only will result in increased energy and resources demand but will have socio-economic impacts. Majority of Western Australians live in detached houses made of energy intensive clay bricks, which have a high potential to generate construction and demolition (C&D) waste. Therefore, there is a need to look into the use of alternative materials and construction methods. Due to Western Australia’s temperate climate, concrete could not only offer a comfortable living space but an operational energy saving also can be achieved. This paper has assessed the global warming implications of cast in-situ concrete sandwich wall system as an alternative to clay brick walls (CBW) with partial replacement of cement in concrete with by-products such as fly ash (FA) and ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS), natural aggregate (NA) with recycled crushed aggregate (RCA), natural sand (NS) with manufactured sand (MS) and, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) foam core as a replacement to polystyrene core for construction of a typical 4 × 2 × 2 detached house in Perth. Life cycle management (LCM) approach has been used to determine global warming reduction benefits due to the use of available by-products and recycled materials in Western Australian houses. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28465 10.3390/ma8105347 mdpi fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Lawania, K. Sarker, Prabir Biswas, Wahidul Global Warming Implications of the Use of By-Products and Recycled Materials in Western Australia’s Housing Sector |
| title | Global Warming Implications of the Use of By-Products and Recycled Materials in Western Australia’s Housing Sector |
| title_full | Global Warming Implications of the Use of By-Products and Recycled Materials in Western Australia’s Housing Sector |
| title_fullStr | Global Warming Implications of the Use of By-Products and Recycled Materials in Western Australia’s Housing Sector |
| title_full_unstemmed | Global Warming Implications of the Use of By-Products and Recycled Materials in Western Australia’s Housing Sector |
| title_short | Global Warming Implications of the Use of By-Products and Recycled Materials in Western Australia’s Housing Sector |
| title_sort | global warming implications of the use of by-products and recycled materials in western australia’s housing sector |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28465 |