LCA: the Life Cycle Approach to Buildings

Overview

• Sustainability
  • Dimensions of Sustainability
  • Indicators of Sustainability
• Building and the Ecosystem
  • Energy Flow, Mass Flows and Quality of Buildings
  • Life Cycle Models
  • Enlarged Life Cycle Models
  • Ecosystems
  • Simplified Environmental Model
  • Buildings During Their Life Cycle
  • Historic Approaches
  • Existing Approaches
  • Restrictions and Labels
  • Product Declarations
  • Simplified Evaluation Model s
• Life Cycle Analysis
  • Definition of Life Cycle Analysis
  • Inventory of flows
  • Scale of the impacts
  • Aggregation principles
  • Impact indicators
  • Evaluation of the impact on micro climate
  • Different types of assessment
  • Data sets for LCA
• LCA for Buildings
  • Building description during the life cycle
  • Phase and process model for life cycle
  • Cost-element decomposition of a building
  • Combined cost-, energy and environmental impact calculation
  • Environmental impact of building materials
  • Environmental impact of building elements
  • Environmental impact of construction process
  • Simulation of buildings during their life cycle
  • Energy consumption LCA - Simulation results
• LCA in the Design Process
  • Design as an iterative process
  • Overview of related design tools
  • Tool for design brief stage : ECOPT
  • Tool for preliminary design : ECOPRO
  • Tool for detailed design : EQUER
  • Tool for detailed design : OPTIMIZE
  • Tool for construction planning : ECOREAL
  • Detailled design for life cycle
  • Tool for material choice : Environmental Preference Based Method
  • Evaluation of the impacts of buildings on the micro climate
  • Mass flows in an urban system & Mass flows in building stocks
• List of References
  • References
  • Links