Impacts of Energy-Saving Technological Progress in the Building Materials Sectors on Both Economy and Environment of the Construction Industry
Publication: ICCREM 2021
ABSTRACT
The energy-saving technological progress have aroused widespread concern in many industries and will also become an important way to reduce the building embodied carbon emissions. Because building embodied carbon emissions involve the carbon emissions from multiple related sectors, the technological progress in different sectors will have impacts on building embodied carbon emissions. However, there is a lack of systematic research to explore and analyze the correlations of technological progress on building embodied carbon emission reduction in an economic system in which multiple sectors coexist. In this paper, first, a social accounting matrix was compiled that highlight the related sectors; second, a dynamic CGE model of multi-sector energy-saving technologies was built; third, different scenarios on energy-saving scenarios were set up on building embodied carbon emissions; and finally, through simulation and analysis, the differences in the results from economy, industrial structure, energy consumption, and carbon emissions are compared with the benchmark scenarios.
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Pages: 508 - 514
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Published online: Dec 9, 2021
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