Porhincák M., Eštoková A., 2013, Comparative Analysis of Environmental Performance of Building Materials towards Sustainable Construction, Chemical Engineering Transactions, 35, 1291-1296.
Contemporary the construction sector belongs to major industries with responsibility for the deterioration of environment. Throughout different stages of building life cycle buildings use materials and require adding of energy for various processes. Consumption of tremendous quantity of energy is directly linked with greenhouse gasses emitted to atmosphere causing the effect known as global warming. The key factors to select material basis are technical and economical parameters, however selecting of building materials regarding environmental performance may lead to reduction a negative image of construction sector. This paper analysis 2 design variants of one conventional Slovak building with alternated materials composition in selected structures. Evaluation was performed in terms of environmental performance of used building materials and included calculation of embodied energy and embodied CO2 an SO2 emissions. The result of study found that it is possible to reduce monitored environmental impact by 4.4-10.5 % just by an easy change of several building materials in selected structures.
