last updated: 4 August 2000

Gerilla, Gloria

Gloria Gerilla is currently a doctoral student in Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. Ms. Gerilla received her MSc. degree in Management of Transportation from the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden (2000) and M.Eng. in Geotechnical and Transportation Engineering from the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand (1995). She obtained her B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of the Philippines in 1991. Her current research involves the investigation of the interactions between construction technology, energy requirements, and carbon dioxide pollutant emissions.

Research

The construction of facilities requires a tremendous amount of energy, which in turn emit out high levels of pollutant emissions. Usage of materials in construction is very much energy intensive so it is necessary to study the influences of the usage of materials to energy intensity and consequently the amount of carbon dioxide emissions. The major focus of the research is the identification of structural interdependencies among the construction industry, energy sector and non-construction industry. The feedback loop approach together with hierarchical decomposition is applied to the hybrid rectangular input-output tables (HRIO) to be able to reveal the interactions between construction technology, energy requirements and carbon dioxide pollutant emissions. The structural system of the energy sector and the construction sector is also decomposed using the structural decomposition analysis (SDA) to distinguish inter-temporal the influences present between the energy sector and the construction sector.