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The Water Footprint Model of Construction Products from a Sight of Life Cycle and Production Process

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Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM 2021)

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Abstract

The research about the water footprint of construction products can promote green production in the field of construction, but there is currently a lack of water footprint calculation models to provide a basis for the green development of the construction industry. Based on the basic connotation of water footprint, this paper structures a conceptual framework of the water footprint for construction products following with life cycle and production process-flow, and then establishes a water footprint calculation model including two sub-models-blue water footprint and grey water footprint independently, which integrates on-site construction and material supply chain. Finally, for an application example, based on the collection of material water footprint data in the construction industry, the sensitivity factors are analyzed and discussed. The results of the calculation model show that the water footprint is mainly related to grey water footprint, and the research content of the thesis provides a quantitative basis for water footprint management of construction products firstly.

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  1. School of Business, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, People’s Republic of China

    Hanyu Li & Xinli Zhang

  2. School of Pharmacy, University College London, London, UK

    Lixiang Zhao

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  1. Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

    Jiuping Xu

  2. University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Ciudad Real, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Fausto Pedro García Márquez

  3. World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy

    Mohamed Hag Ali Hassan

  4. Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova

    Gheorghe Duca

  5. Institute of Systems Control, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Asaf Hajiyev

  6. Department of Industrial Engineering, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

    Fulya Altiparmak

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Li, H., Zhang, X., Zhao, L. (2021). The Water Footprint Model of Construction Products from a Sight of Life Cycle and Production Process. In: Xu, J., García Márquez, F.P., Ali Hassan, M.H., Duca, G., Hajiyev, A., Altiparmak, F. (eds) Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. ICMSEM 2021. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 78. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79203-9_18

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