Life-cycle assessment of residential buildings in three different European locations, basic tool
peer reviewed The paper deals with the development of a tool used for the life cycle assessment of residential buildings located in three different European towns: Brussels (Belgium), Coimbra (Portugal) and Luleå (Sweden). The basic tool focuses on the structure and the materials of the buildings an...
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ftorbi:oai:orbi.ulg.ac.be:2268/108555 2024-04-21T08:06:50+00:00 Life-cycle assessment of residential buildings in three different European locations, basic tool Rossi, Barbara Marique, Anne-Françoise Glaumann, Mauritz Reiter, Sigrid 2012-01 https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/108555 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.11.017 en eng Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science urn:issn:0360-1323 urn:issn:1873-684X https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/108555 info:hdl:2268/108555 doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.11.017 scopus-id:2-s2.0-84855883178 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Building and Environment, 51, 395-401 (2012-01) Life-cycle analysis Embodied energy/carbon Energy mix Climate Engineering computing & technology Civil engineering Ingénierie informatique & technologie Ingénierie civile journal article http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 info:eu-repo/semantics/article peer reviewed 2012 ftorbi https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.11.017 2024-03-27T14:56:13Z peer reviewed The paper deals with the development of a tool used for the life cycle assessment of residential buildings located in three different European towns: Brussels (Belgium), Coimbra (Portugal) and Luleå (Sweden). The basic tool focuses on the structure and the materials of the buildings and permits the evaluation of the Embodied energy, Embodied carbon and yearly energy consumption. For that purpose, a different set of original data is taken into account for each location, in which the monthly temperatures, energy mix, heating and cooling systems are defined. The energy consumption, being for heating space or water, for cooling or for lighting is transformed into CO2 emissions to deduce the Operational carbon as well. The influence of the energy mix can therefore be assessed in the basic tool. As a matter of fact, the heating and cooling systems habitually used in the three countries are also of great importance. The District Heating system, is, for instance, incorporated in the basic tool. The presence of solar water heater or photovoltaic panels is also strongly influencing the operational carbon. After a short literature review on building LCA and the description of the basic tool, the software Pleiades+Comfie combined with Equer is used to achieve the complete LCA for one building using two different load bearing frames. The results of the calculations for Brussels climate are verified against these software results. The dependence of the results to parameters such as climate, energy mix and habits is then discussed in the companion paper. Article in Journal/Newspaper Luleå Luleå Luleå University of Liège: ORBi (Open Repository and Bibliography) Building and Environment 51 395 401 |
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peer reviewed The paper deals with the development of a tool used for the life cycle assessment of residential buildings located in three different European towns: Brussels (Belgium), Coimbra (Portugal) and Luleå (Sweden). The basic tool focuses on the structure and the materials of the buildings and permits the evaluation of the Embodied energy, Embodied carbon and yearly energy consumption. For that purpose, a different set of original data is taken into account for each location, in which the monthly temperatures, energy mix, heating and cooling systems are defined. The energy consumption, being for heating space or water, for cooling or for lighting is transformed into CO2 emissions to deduce the Operational carbon as well. The influence of the energy mix can therefore be assessed in the basic tool. As a matter of fact, the heating and cooling systems habitually used in the three countries are also of great importance. The District Heating system, is, for instance, incorporated in the basic tool. The presence of solar water heater or photovoltaic panels is also strongly influencing the operational carbon. After a short literature review on building LCA and the description of the basic tool, the software Pleiades+Comfie combined with Equer is used to achieve the complete LCA for one building using two different load bearing frames. The results of the calculations for Brussels climate are verified against these software results. The dependence of the results to parameters such as climate, energy mix and habits is then discussed in the companion paper. |
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Life-cycle assessment of residential buildings in three different European locations, basic tool |
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Life-cycle assessment of residential buildings in three different European locations, basic tool |
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Life-cycle assessment of residential buildings in three different European locations, basic tool |
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Life-cycle assessment of residential buildings in three different European locations, basic tool |
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Life-cycle assessment of residential buildings in three different European locations, basic tool |
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life-cycle assessment of residential buildings in three different european locations, basic tool |
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