Carbon Footprint Estimation for Academic Building in India
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Fig. 2 Electricity generation scenario in India as on 30 June 2020 (www.cea.nic.in) [3]
buildings and associated emissions, the life cycle of a building can be divided into
three primary phases: construction, operation and maintenance; and finally demolition. In all these phases, buildings consumed high amount of energy and produce
GHG emissions, which are continuously increasing at massive rate [5, 24]. The