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Term 1: Sustainability in Construction - Definitions and Concepts, Quizzes of Civil Engineering

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)Civil Engineering

Definitions for various sustainability-related terms used in construction, including flow assessments, closed-loop recycling, industrial symbiosis, embodied energy, life-cycle assessment, tree protection zone, tree soil volume, and the sustainable sites initiative.

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Download Term 1: Sustainability in Construction - Definitions and Concepts and more Quizzes Civil Engineering in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Flow Assessments DEFINITION 1 analyze amount and king of energy and material used to extract, process, transport, and dispose of products and supplies used by a project TERM 2 closed-loop recycling DEFINITION 2 reuse product materials after their original purpose is fulfilled, reduce what is going to the landfill TERM 3 industrial symbiosis DEFINITION 3 waste from one process is raw material for another TERM 4 embodied energy DEFINITION 4 all energy used to produce an object is embedded in the product, and is lost if it is discarded rather than recycled TERM 5 life-cycle assessment DEFINITION 5 environmental impacts associated with generating materials, manufacturing materials, the use of the product during its life, and the disposal of the product, on a project

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