A Model to Assess the Feasibility of Applying Biomaterials in the Building Industry

Authors- Iman Naji, Associate Professor Dr. Polat Hancer

Abstract-IPCC Report 2022 shows that the Paris Agreement 2015 objectives are not met and the world will experience a 1.5 C increase in temperature limit sooner than predicted schedule, by 2040. So, neither low carbon nor even zero carbon building strategies are enough to prevent such a dramatic environmental impact caused by carbon emissions as the most major GHG produced by human beings, and we need an effective way to reverse the process of producing carbon to capture it from the atmosphere so that creating a model of carbon-negative building which is feasible to be constructed and used has been taken into consideration nowadays. The ideal theory is that innovative carbon-negative biomaterials should gradually substitute the generic carbon-producing materials but the reality shows that they haven’t found any significant place in the public building construction industry and that’s because of the lack of a comprehensive multilateral assessment system that can calculate, evaluate and interpret every aspect of feasibility in using a carbon-negative biomaterial and suggest the optimum case. Carbon-negative material studies mostly concentrate on the carbon capture capability of the materials and so do the life cycle assessment (LCA) tools. The application feasibility of the claimed carbon-negative biomaterials is a missing part, mostly neglected in scientific research. This research aims to investigate the best format of integration among the existing LCA tools in order to find a way to approach an acceptable assessment model for measuring the feasibility of applying carbon-negative biomaterials (CNB) in the building industry along with showing the modeling gaps according to the presented ideal model with the approach to generalize CNB at the construction market.

DOI: /10.61463/ijset.vol.12.issue6.387