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Path Analysis Modelling of Factors Contributing Carbon Emissions during Building Construction

Hisana Salim, Sahimol Eldhose

Abstract


Environmental impacts cause a setback against attaining sustainability as well as for evaluating the performance of construction projects. In order to reduce these environmental changes during building construction, it is very essential to identify various activities and materials which have direct and indirect carbon emissions. The emissions caused by building construction initiates from material manufacturing, the construction activities, the use phase and maintenance, demolition, and recycle and reuse. In this project, correlation and significance of factors contributed to carbon emissions during pre-use stage of building construction using Linear Structural Relation (LISREL) are identified.


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