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ARENA alejandro pablo
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Título:
CO2 Emission by Different Building Materials for Walls Case: housing in Colima, Mexico
Autor/es:
GÓMEZ ASPEITIA, G; ARVIZU, V; ARENA, AP
Lugar:
Québec
Reunión:
Conferencia; PLEA 2009; 2009
Resumen:
There is a comparative analysis about CO2 emission by the extraction, transportation, manufacturing, building and demolition phases of the three wall systems more used in building of economical housing in Mexico, taking like case study houses built in the city of Colima. The studied building materials for walls are those based on traditional brick of burned clay, brick of solid cement and hollow block of concrete. The method applied was the life cycle assessment ruled by the ISO 14000 series, without considering the phase of occupation of the housing, which has not concluded. The software SimaPro 7 was used for the calculation of input and output of each system. The wall of hollow block of concrete was the most polluting due to the quantity of cement and steel for the manufacturing and construction phases, just if the traditional brick use sustainable source of biomass for the burning of the pieces in the manufacturing phase. In that case, the traditional brick is turned out to be the less polluting system during the analyzed phases.