Global or local construction materials for post-disaster reconstruction? Sustainability assessment of 20 post-disaster shelter designs.

ABSTRACT: This data article presents the life cycle inventories of 20 transitional shelter solutions. The data was gathered from the reports 8 shelter designs [1]; 10 post-disaster shelter designs [2]; the environmental impact of brick production outside of Europe [3]; and the optimization of bamboo-based post-disaster housing units for tropical and subtropical regions using LCA methodologies [4]. These reports include bill of quantities, plans, performance analysis, and lifespan of the studied shelters. The data from these reports was used to develop the Life Cycle Inventories (LCI). All the amounts were converted from their original units (length, volume and amount) into mass (kg) units and the transport distance into ton×km. These LCIs represent the production phases of each shelter and the trans

SUBMITTER: Zea Escamilla E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4510546 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature