SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT: DENSITY AS A MAPPING PARAMETER FOR BUILDING MATERIAL DATABASES
Paper in proceeding, 2024

Integrating building performance analysis and life cycle assessment in design requires accurate material databases interfacing different analysis engines. However, mappings of databases developed for different purposes are missing. We evaluate whether beyond material name or ID, density can be used as a mapping parameter between environmental, energy, daylight, and structural databases in two cases in Switzerland and Sweden. In total, 16 out of 19 materials could be confidently mapped based on the information available. The variability of the mapping parameter, density, was15 % for structural materials, and up to 64 % for insulation materials. The lasting contribution of this work is a consistent methodology for mapping between material databases.

Author

Toivo Säwén

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology

Pierre Estève-Bourrel

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)

University of Edinburgh

Isac Mjörnell

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology

Alina Galimshina

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology

Guillaume Habert

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)

Alexander Hollberg

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology

Proceedings of the European Conference on Computing in Construction

26841150 (eISSN)

Vol. 2024 276-253
9789083451305 (ISBN)

European Conference on Computing in Construction, EC3 2024
Chania, Greece,

Mainstreaming holistic life cycle performance optimisation in early design stages of buildings

Swedish Energy Agency (51715-1), 2021-01-01 -- 2024-12-31.

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Other Engineering and Technologies

DOI

10.35490/EC3.2024.194

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10/25/2024