Abstract
The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of a building involves the use of various types of information about the building, including the products, processes, and services related to the building throughout its life cycle. The modelling of the transport process can be complex and may be performed based on a variety of approaches and assumptions. With existing approaches, the most accurate results those closest to the real scenario, are calculated once the building has already been built. Other approaches are based on estimations at the design stage using generic scenarios and data sources. The variation of the LCA results when employing different modelling options for transport modules is studied herein. To this end, and to identify the possible errors or dispersion of the LCA results related to the various transport modelling options, transport impacts are calculated using a case study, whereby five different modelling options are compared. The results show that the transport impact difference between the lowest values (the real scenario) and the highest values (normalised detailed scenario) is approximately 30%. To conclude, efforts should be made to better define the default scenarios, especially regarding transport distances and the correction for volumetric capacity of the transport vessels, adapted to the real scenario.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 012096 |
| Journal | IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science |
| Volume | 1078 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| ISSN | 1755-1307 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
| Event | SBE 2022 Berlin D-A-CH Conference: Built Environment within Planetary Boundaries, sbe22 Berlin 2022 - Virtual, Online Duration: 20 Sept 2022 → 23 Sept 2022 |
Conference
| Conference | SBE 2022 Berlin D-A-CH Conference: Built Environment within Planetary Boundaries, sbe22 Berlin 2022 |
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| City | Virtual, Online |
| Period | 20/09/2022 → 23/09/2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors B.S.V. and C.L. thank the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, which supported the project Grant BIA2017-84830-R funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by ERDF A way of making Europe; and the Junta de Andalucía which supported the project Grant US.20-03 funded by Consejería de Fomento, Infraestructuras y Ordenación del Territorio, and the project Grant P20_00541 funded by the Junta de Andalucía and by ERDF A way of making Europe. The author B.S.V. also appreciates the support from the University of Seville and the VI Plan Propio de Investigación (VIPPIT-2021-I.3) that financially supported the research visit of the first author at the Graz University of Technology.
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