TY  - CONF
SN  - 17551307
N2  - The eminence of climate change and global warming has received considerable international awareness in recent decades. Construction industry sector consumes a substantial amount of natural resources and leads to the emissions of million tonnes of carbon into the environment. Consequently, Malaysia is one of the countries with the highest level of carbon emissions in the world. The commercial sector has been identified as one of the major contributors to carbon emission by energy consumption. Building developers should take action in promoting sustainable building practices to reduce carbon emission and energy consumption. Selection of appropriate building materials can lead to significant reduction in greenhouse gases emission. In this paper, an absolute quantification and estimation of embodied carbon emission are presented. Furthermore, this paper investigates the amount of energy consumed. It also presents a novel optimization model for embodied carbon emission which has been developed by evolutionary Genetic Algorithm (GA). GA evaluation has been rarely used to address environmental performances of construction projects, particularly in Malaysia. In this regard, the adoption of the ISO 14040 framework and evolutionary GA were used to evaluate the office project. This paper presents an assessment model that can be beneficial for carbon emission management. According to findings, the developed GA model can be used in practice which has been validated by an application to the building. © 2019 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
KW  - Carbon; Construction industry; Energy utilization; Engineering education; Environmental management; Genetic algorithms; Global warming; Greenhouse gases; Intelligent buildings; Sustainable development
KW  -  Absolute quantification; Assessment models; Carbon emission managements; Construction projects; Environmental performance; Greenhouse gases emissions; Optimization modeling; Sustainable building
KW  -  Structural design
TI  - A Systematic Approach to Embodied Carbon Reduction in Buildings
Y1  - 2019///
ID  - scholars11764
A1  - Moayedi, F.
A1  - Amila Wan Abdullah Zawawi, N.
A1  - Shahir Liew, M.
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85063399926&doi=10.1088%2f1755-1315%2f220%2f1%2f012055&partnerID=40&md5=75172f5e93814e5b161c893e8fa90db8
N1  - cited By 2; Conference of 12th International Civil Engineering Post Graduate Conference, SEPKA 2018 and 3rd International Symposium on Expertise of Engineering Design, ISEED 2018 ; Conference Date: 27 August 2018 Through 28 August 2018; Conference Code:146110
PB  - Institute of Physics Publishing
AV  - none
VL  - 220
ER  -