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Title: REDUCING THE CARBON FOOTPRINT BY SELECTING BUILDING MATERIAL
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REDUCING THE CARBON FOOTPRINT BY SELECTING BUILDING MATERIAL
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In 2019, the Slovak Republic committed to start implementing actions aimed at achieving carbon neutrality. The carbon neutrality is to be achieved by 2050. The selection of building materials in the project planning phase is considered to be one of the actions. When choosing a building material, the client will decide not only on the construction cost, but also on the environmental cost of building material. This environmental cost takes into account the carbon footprint from the initial origin of the building material. Almost always, the client has the opportunity to choose a building material with a lower carbon footprint. Thus, the construction budget will include building material that has been produced with less damage to the environment. The client becomes responsible for reducing the carbon footprint by choosing the proper material. In order to be chosen by the clients in the construction projects, the building material manufacturers will be motivated to reduce their carbon footprint. They will apply for entries in environmental databases and will have an environmental certificate. These databases will initially be used in construction project planning, especially in terms of the project cost planning. Sharing information from environmental databases will also ensure the process of building sustainability. Currently, the analytical method of environmental management ?Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)? is applied in the world. For example, the LCA method has been used to assess the environmental impact of technologies such as cement production. The article presents a possible methodology to calculate construction and environmental cost in the project planning phase in the conditions of the Slovak Republic. Putting the methodology into practice has potential to make it possible to reduce the carbon footprint. In construction, this is one of the actions to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
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20th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2020, ENERGY AND CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES
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20th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2020, 8-11 December, 2020
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Proceedings Paper
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STEF92 Technology
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SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference
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SWS Scholarly Society; Acad Sci Czech Republ; Latvian Acad Sci; Polish Acad Sci; Russian Acad Sci; Serbian Acad Sci & Arts; Natl Acad Sci Ukraine; Natl Acad Sci Armenia; Sci Council Japan; European Acad Sci, Arts & Letters; Acad Fine Arts Zagreb Croatia; C
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227-234
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8-11 December, 2020
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website
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cdrom
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7677
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carbon neutrality;building material;carbon footprint;budget;environmental cost
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