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Environmental assessment of buildings and materials’ impacts is of great importance because of reduction of the negative influence of construction sector to the environment. The paper presents a study of the environmental evaluation of the vertical structures made of brick, aerated concrete and reinforced concrete as core wall materials. Two types of the insulation materials were considered whereas the material composition of the walls was designed to ensure the same thermal performance of the structure. For each material composition, the following environmental indicators were calculated per 1 m2 of the structure: the primary energy (PEI), the global warming potential (GWP) and the acidification potential (AP). The calculation was based on the unit data originating from a selected Life cycle analysis (LCA) data-base. Multi-criterial analysis was applied to identify the most appropriate composition when considering also the physical parameters of the walls. The findings revealed that the most environmentally sound wall composition was represented by aerated concrete insulated by graphite polystyrene.
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This research was funded by VEGA—Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences, grant number 1/0648/17.
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Estokova, A., Paulikova, A., Singovszka, E. (2019). Environmental Impacts of the Selected Building Structures. In: Sun, R., Fei, L. (eds) Sustainable Development of Water and Environment. ICSDWE 2019. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16729-5_10
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