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Abstract
Investment decisions for buildings made today largely determine their environmental impacts over many future decades due to their long lifetimes. Such decisions involve a trade-off between additional investments today and potential savings during use and at end of life - in terms of economic costs, primary energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is suited to identify measures and action to increase the resource efficiency and the environmental performance of buildings and construction. This paper gives an overview of an ongoing international research project within the IEA EBC with the overall aim to harmonise LCA approaches on buildings and foster life cycle thinking in the real estate and construction sectors. The objectives of the project are i) to establish a common methodology guideline to assess the life cycle based environmental impacts caused by buildings, ii) to establish methods for the development of specific environmental benchmarks for different types of buildings, iii) to derive regionally differentiated guidelines and tools for the use of LCA in building design and tools such as BIM, and iv) to improve data availability by developing national or regional databases with regionally differentiated LCA data tailored to the construction sector. To ensure practical solutions a number of case studies will be used to test and illustrate the consensus approaches and research issues.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Sustainable Built Environment D-A-CH Conference 2019 (SBE19 Graz) : 11–14 September 2019, Graz, Austria |
Number of pages | 10 |
Volume | 323 |
Publisher | IOP Publishing |
Publication date | 5 Sept 2019 |
Edition | 1 |
Pages | 1-10 |
Article number | 012042 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 5 Sept 2019 |
Event | Sustainable Built Environment D-A-CH Conference 2019: Transition Towards a Net Zero Carbon Built Environment, SBE 2019 Graz - Graz, Austria Duration: 11 Sept 2019 → 14 Sept 2019 |
Conference
Conference | Sustainable Built Environment D-A-CH Conference 2019: Transition Towards a Net Zero Carbon Built Environment, SBE 2019 Graz |
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Country/Territory | Austria |
City | Graz |
Period | 11/09/2019 → 14/09/2019 |
Sponsor | BAUIMASSIVI, Beckhoff, et al., Klima- und Energiefonds, Marienhutte, Wienerberger |
Series | IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science |
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ISSN | 1755-1307 |
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IEA EBC Annex 72: Assessing life cycle related environmental impacts caused by buildings
Birgisdottir, H. & Rasmussen, F. N.
01/11/2017 → 31/10/2021
Project: Research