climate change mitigation from construction sector strategy

2. Proposing of new building scheme and composite
towards global warming mitigation for Malaysia
Ali Tighnavard Balasbaneh & Abdul Kadir Bin Marsono
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19397038.2017.1293184

3. • The building sector has been regarded as a potential sector where
there is large capacity to reduce the climate change effect. This study
has proposed solutions to mitigate environmental impacts and
achieve low CO2 emission from residential sector. Therefore, full life
cycle assessment (LCA) has been run to assess the CO2 emission and
its effect on the atmosphere and climate change.

4. • Based on the result, timber scheme is the best choice due to releasing
less CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. However, house builders in
Malaysia have almost completely neglected timber as a building
material, with timber use as building components reduced to 5%. In
this study, LCA Software was used to assess CO2 emissions from
different wall construction. The alternative building scheme has been
made by reinforce steel stud, wooden beam and timber wall (S8) to
improve the scheme deficiency while releasing less CO2 emissions
compared to other schemes.

5. • Therefore, S8 has a decreased CO2 effect by 85% less than precast
concrete frame and 90% less than brick over their lifetime. (S8)
increased the load bearing compared to conventional timber beam.
Thus, new scheme S8 could be replaced by current scheme and
promote more adjustable scheme for Malaysian housing.