Yan, Jiayi;
Lu, Qiuchen;
Tang, Junqing;
Chen, Long;
Hong, Jingke;
Broyd, Tim;
(2022)
Digital Tools for Revealing and Reducing Carbon Footprint in Infrastructure, Building, and City Scopes.
Buildings
, 12
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, Article 1097. 10.3390/buildings12081097.
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Abstract
The climate change issue has been striking and bringing pressure on all countries and industries. The responsibility of the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Facility Management (AEC/FM) industry is heavy because it accounts for over one-third of global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, the development of digital technology brings the opportunity to mitigate environmental issues. Therefore, this study intended to examine the state-of-the-art of digital development and transformation in the AEC/FM industry by collecting and reviewing the developed digital carbon footprint analysis tools in infrastructure, building, and city scopes. Specifically, this study (1) generated a review methodology for carbon footprint analysis results; (2) demonstrated the review results from the infrastructure, building, and city scopes, analysed and compared the results crossing the scopes from four aspects: carbon footprint analysis strategy, standards and protocols, rating systems, and general development level of digital tools; and (3) discussed the potential directions in the industry to address the environmental issues. This study indicated that the digitalisation level regarding carbon-related areas is still at an early stage, and efforts should be taken both academically and practically to drive the digital development confronting the harsh climate change issue.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Digital Tools for Revealing and Reducing Carbon Footprint in Infrastructure, Building, and City Scopes |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3390/buildings12081097 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12081097 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Technology, Construction & Building Technology, Engineering, Civil, Engineering, carbon footprint (CF), greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, carbon management, carbon accounting, digital transformation, digitalisation, infrastructure, BIM, DIOXIDE EMISSIONS, ENERGY |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10155961 |
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