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Environmental Impact and Carbon Footprint Assessment of Sustainable Buildings: An Experimental Investigation
Summary
Researchers assessed the carbon footprint and environmental impact of sustainable building construction in Chennai, India, finding that the infrastructure sector contributes substantially to carbon emissions and that sustainable materials can reduce this footprint.
Carbon emission has been considerably higher in India in the last few decades. The greenhouse gases increased to an imaginary volume, a major contributor to global warming. Chennai is one of India’s large cosmopolitan cities, contributing more Gross Domestic Product (G.D.P.) and carbon to the atmosphere. The infrastructure sector is always a booming sector in and around Chennai, which requires more construction materials. In turn, the construction of new buildings expands the city with a large area of urban and suburban Chennai, where I.T. division, automobile division, and industrial estates are available. Hence, this study deals with the carbon emission of a residential building constructed with conventional materials in and around Chennai. So, one can estimate the emission of carbon by the conventional building, which leads to global warming and climate change.
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