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The construction industry plays a critical role in global carbon emissions, contributing significantly to climate change. Embodied carbon, which encompasses all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the extraction, production, transportation, and construction of materials, has become a critical focus in sustainable design. Building Information Modeling (BIM), with tools such as Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Forma, One Click LCA and Tully, among others, offers opportunities to streamline embodied carbon analysi...

Urban development and the construction industry have experienced in the last century massive development worldwide, and in Romania the last two decades have been marked by a considerable advance of construction projects growth. But sustainable urban development must be regulated by norms and standardization systems that lead to harmonious progress. In 1990, the first certification system for building sustainability, BREEAM, appeared in Great Britain and it is applied on a large scale mainly in Europe. The second c...

Experiences made until present time have demonstrated that shaping sustainable cities is hardly possible without a comprehensive understanding of the changing natural environment and without monitoring the impact of human activities by integrating both virtual representations of real estate and natural environments. It is without doubt that cadastre has an important role in shaping sustainable cities. Cadastral systems should be developed for different jurisdictions in order to solve important land management prob...

In the last time there is an open dialog among scientists, economists, engineers, politicians, as well as city councils and municipalities, about future plans for urban development by considering green real estate for shaping sustainable cities. Applying the concept of sustainable development concretely means to develop and apply local strategies, not only in technology, and economy, but also in environmental and social fields, by considering sustainability requirements. In this regard it is obvious that mindset c...