The Sustainability of a Building Made by using of Recycling Materials

Abstract

A very important problem encountered all over the world and increasingly widespread in the construction field is represented by sustainability. This paper presents a sustainability study, performed on a building located in Romania - Arad County, which involved the consolidation and expansion of an existing building in order to create an investment with the functionality of an agrotourism guesthouse. The sustainability study involved the calculation of coefficients of the environmental dimension on the basis of which the embodied energy and green house gas emissions GHG were estimated as a result of the selected materials, transportation and equipment used during the process. The social dimension was taken into account by establishing the coefficients that influence visual, acoustic and thermal comfort. Besides the fact that modern construction resulted from the perspective of the materials and equipment used, an important factor represents that, part of the materials that resulted from the partial demolition of the existing construction, were reused.