IEA EBC Annex 72 - Bedömning av livscykelrelaterade miljökonsekvenser orsakade av byggnader
Forskningsprojekt, 2017 – 2022

Investment decisions for buildings made today largely determine their environmental impacts over many future decades due to their long lifetimes. Furthermore, 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 demand, greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts. Since the economic system does not fully account for external environmental effects, environmental resources are used inefficiently. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is suited to complement economic information on buildings with information on their environmental impacts. LCA helps to take measures and action to increase the resource efficiency of buildings and construction.

The project is advancing the research already conducted within EBC Annexes 56 and 57. It broadens the scope of Annex 57 by including operational impacts of buildings in use and by addressing environmental impacts in addition to primary energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. It is the intention to cover residential, office and school buildings, hospitals and other public buildings, both new and retrofit.

The project is researching harmonization issues arising when applying LCA approaches on buildings. It functions as a platform to exchange experiences and knowledge within partner countries and to foster the application of LCA on buildings in countries with little experience yet.

Project Objectives 
- establish a common methodology guideline to assess the life cycle based primary energy demand, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impacts caused by buildings
- establish methods for the development of specific environmental benchmarks for different types of buildings
- derive regionally differentiated guidelines and tools for building design and planning such as BIM for architects and planners
- establish a number of case studies, focused to allow for answering some of the research issues and for deriving empirical benchmarks
- develop national or regional databases with regionally differentiated life cycle assessment data tailored to the construction sector; share experiences with the setup and update of such databases

Deltagare

Alexander Hollberg (kontakt)

Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Byggnadsteknologi

Samarbetspartners

Aalborg University Copenhagen

Copenhagen, Denmark

Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik

Gothenburg, Sweden

Association Pour La Recherche Et Le Developpement Des Methodes Et Processus Industriels - Armines

Paris, France

Budapesti Muszaki es Gazdasagtudomanyi Egyetem

Budapest, Hungary

Ceske Vysoke Uceni Technicke v Praze

Praha, Czech Republic

Edinburgh Napier University

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH)

Zürich, Switzerland

Fraunhofer-Institut für Bauphysik (IBP)

Stuttgart, Germany

HEIG-VD

Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hong Kong, China

Indian Institute of Technology

Hyderabad, India

KU Leuven

Leuven, Belgium

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Karlsruhe, Germany

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Stockholm, Sweden

Luleå tekniska universitet

Luleå, Sweden

Mines ParisTech

Paris, France

Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet

Trondheim, Norway

Open University

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute (ZAG)

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Technische Universität Graz

Graz, Austria

Texas A&M University

College Station, USA

Tianjin University

Tianjin, China

Universidad de Sevilla

Sevilla, Spain

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Campinas, Brazil

Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo

Vitoria, Brazil

Universidade do Minho

Braga, Portugal

Universita degli Studi di Palermo

Palermo, Italy

University of Melbourne

Parkville, Australia

Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO)

Mol, Belgium

treeze Ltd.

Uster, Switzerland

Finansiering

Chalmers tekniska högskola

Finansierar Chalmers deltagande under 2017–2021

Publikationer

Mer information

Projektets webbplats

http://annex72.iea-ebc.org/

Senast uppdaterat

2024-05-29