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Embodied carbon consideration for maintenance & repair appraisal in heritage building: a review

Reducing carbon emissions is critical to mitigating climate change, and the buildingbsector is one of the largest contributors to carbon emissions, accounting for around 39%. Recent evidence has shown that accounting for embodied carbon in life cycle assessment (LCA) could help reduce carbon emissi...

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Main Authors: Mahmad, M S, Suratkon, A, Ismail, S
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Published: 2024
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spelling my.uthm.eprints.119672024-11-14T07:12:56Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/11967/ Embodied carbon consideration for maintenance & repair appraisal in heritage building: a review Mahmad, M S Suratkon, A Ismail, S T Technology (General) Reducing carbon emissions is critical to mitigating climate change, and the buildingbsector is one of the largest contributors to carbon emissions, accounting for around 39%. Recent evidence has shown that accounting for embodied carbon in life cycle assessment (LCA) could help reduce carbon emissions during the maintenance and repair phase. This paper narratively examines the literature review of embodied carbon considerations in the life cycle assessment (LCA) of historic buildings during the maintenance and repair phase. The search for all previously published articles was conducted in various databases using specific keywords identified as relevant to this study. The results of the database search were summarized and synthesized after review to ensure that the research questions could be met. The results show that considering embodied carbon in the LCA is essential when selecting the maintenance or repair approach taking environmental aspects into account. In addition, this study also highlights the importance of maintenance durability on the amount of embodied carbon consumed during the maintenance and repair phase. Furthermore, the lack of policy and legislation on carbon consideration in heritage conservation is seen as a major challenge in this area. This finding also suggests that there is a lack of interest in this area among policymakers, so this area needs to be studied in depth to address this issue. The study recommends developing a procedure that incorporates embodied carbon consideration into the existing decision-making process for preserving historic buildings. The procedure is intended to help select the best maintenance and repair approach that not only preserves the value of the structure but also results in the lowest possible carbon consumption during the maintenance and repair phase. The developed procedure should be tested and evaluated in a heritage conservation project to convince policy makers that life cycle carbon calculations should be included in the regulations. 2024 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/11967/1/Embodied%20carbon%20consideration%20for%20maintenance.pdf Mahmad, M S and Suratkon, A and Ismail, S (2024) Embodied carbon consideration for maintenance & repair appraisal in heritage building: a review. In: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. doi:10.1088/1755-1315/1347/1/012024
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Mahmad, M S
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Ismail, S
Embodied carbon consideration for maintenance & repair appraisal in heritage building: a review
description Reducing carbon emissions is critical to mitigating climate change, and the buildingbsector is one of the largest contributors to carbon emissions, accounting for around 39%. Recent evidence has shown that accounting for embodied carbon in life cycle assessment (LCA) could help reduce carbon emissions during the maintenance and repair phase. This paper narratively examines the literature review of embodied carbon considerations in the life cycle assessment (LCA) of historic buildings during the maintenance and repair phase. The search for all previously published articles was conducted in various databases using specific keywords identified as relevant to this study. The results of the database search were summarized and synthesized after review to ensure that the research questions could be met. The results show that considering embodied carbon in the LCA is essential when selecting the maintenance or repair approach taking environmental aspects into account. In addition, this study also highlights the importance of maintenance durability on the amount of embodied carbon consumed during the maintenance and repair phase. Furthermore, the lack of policy and legislation on carbon consideration in heritage conservation is seen as a major challenge in this area. This finding also suggests that there is a lack of interest in this area among policymakers, so this area needs to be studied in depth to address this issue. The study recommends developing a procedure that incorporates embodied carbon consideration into the existing decision-making process for preserving historic buildings. The procedure is intended to help select the best maintenance and repair approach that not only preserves the value of the structure but also results in the lowest possible carbon consumption during the maintenance and repair phase. The developed procedure should be tested and evaluated in a heritage conservation project to convince policy makers that life cycle carbon calculations should be included in the regulations.
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author Mahmad, M S
Suratkon, A
Ismail, S
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Suratkon, A
Ismail, S
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title Embodied carbon consideration for maintenance & repair appraisal in heritage building: a review
title_short Embodied carbon consideration for maintenance & repair appraisal in heritage building: a review
title_full Embodied carbon consideration for maintenance & repair appraisal in heritage building: a review
title_fullStr Embodied carbon consideration for maintenance & repair appraisal in heritage building: a review
title_full_unstemmed Embodied carbon consideration for maintenance & repair appraisal in heritage building: a review
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