Environmental Impact and Carbon Footprint Assessment of Sustainable Buildings: An Experimental Investigation

Carbon emission has been considerably higher in India in the last few decades. The greenhouse gases increased to an imaginary volume, a major contributor to global warming. Chennai is one of India's large cosmopolitan cities, contributing more Gross Domestic Product (G.D.P.) and carbon to the atmosphere. The infrastructure sector is always a booming sector in and around Chennai, which requires more construction materials. In turn, the construction of new buildings expands the city with a large area of urban and suburban Chennai, where I.T. division, automobile division, and industrial estates are available. Hence, this study deals with the carbon emission of a residential building constructed with conventional materials in and around Chennai. So, one can estimate the emission of carbon by the conventional building, which leads to global warming and climate change.

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Carbon emissions in India, particularly in the city of Chennai, have significantly increased due to the booming infrastructure sector and construction of buildings using conventional materials. This study focuses on the carbon emissions of residential buildings in and around Chennai.