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Literature Review

Environmental impact assessment of demolition of a building in India-A case study

Deepak Bansal*, Murlidhar Kamat, Rahul Ralegaonkar and Yashika Bansal

Published: 03 August, 2022 | Volume 6 - Issue 1 | Pages: 042-049

Buildings are demolished, when they outlived their service life, become structurally/functionally unfit, or have been built illegally. In India, an RCC framed, 40-storied high-rise building, with a built-up area of about 75,000 sqm, built without relevant approvals along with lots of violations of building bye-laws, has been demolished. There is nothing new in this demolition process, but its effect on the environment is unavailable. A study has been conducted to understand the environmental impact of this demolition. Based on the main primary construction materials, the embodied energy of this demolished building has been computed as 7.07 GJ/sqm.
The civil construction cost of the building was found to be about INR 200 Crores (USD 27 million, assuming a conversion rate of 1 USD 75 INR in the year 2022). Expected GHGs emissions corresponding to this embodied energy were estimated as 42.42 × 103 MT. Energy in the demolition of the building has been computed to be about 8.7 GJ/sqm. The situation, in which this building can be retrofitted and made compliant with local building bye-laws, has been analyzed for its environmental impact. 

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Keywords:

LCA; LCE; Buildings; High-rise; Demolition; Embodied energy; GHGs; Construction cost

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