Xiao-Yi Wei

Carbon Emissions in the Construction Industry: A Critical Review of Accounting Methods, Spatiotemporal Characteristics, Driving Factors, and Projection

The construction industry is one of the largest sources of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, and most of its carbon is embodied in upstream materials such as cement and steel. Estimates rest on three accounting frameworks, the emission-factor (EF), input-output (IO) and material-flow methods, which count different component...