Life cycle assessment (LCA) for buildings in Singapore

• Main Author: Loy, Yoong Shin.
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering::Structures and design
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49746
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A detailed LCA study was conducted of a base case building - a two-storey laboratory located on Nanyang Technological University campus, Singapore. The two major focuses of this study were: to establish a tailored LCA model with unique LCI datasets for buildings in Singapore by entailing the material extraction phase, building construction phase, and end-of-life phase of the base case building; to investigate the effect of adopting different construction materials (original reinforced concrete using natural aggregate and Portland cement; reinforced concrete with recycled content such as recycled aggregate and GGBS) in LCA perspective.