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Title: | Requirements for applying LCA-based environmental impact assessment tools in the early stages of building design | Authors: | MEEX, Elke Hollberg, Alexander KNAPEN, Elke Hildebrand, Linda VERBEECK, Griet |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Source: | BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT, 133, p. 228-236 | Abstract: | Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is considered as the most suitable way to assess the environmental impact of buildings. Due to its extensiveness and complexity, but also due to a lack of knowledge amongst architects, the LCA methodology is currently most often applied as a post-design evaluation and not used to support or optimize design decisions during early design stages. Therefore, this paper looks at possible solutions to apply LCA, including operational energy demand simulation, in early design from two different perspectives: design-oriented user requirements, derived from literature, a survey, interviews and a focus group with architects, and LCA simplification strategies based on a literature review. Both perspectives are discussed and merged into an evaluation framework that can be used to check the suitability of LCA-based environmental impact assessment (EIA) tools for use by architects during early design stages, but also to develop new design-supportive LCA-based EIA tools. In turn, this can contribute to an increased uptake of these tools in building practice. | Notes: | Meex, E (reprint author), Hasselt Univ, Fac Architecture & Arts, Agoralaan Bldg E, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. elke.meex@uhasselt.be; hollberg@ibi.baug.ethz.ch; elke.knapen@uhasselt.be; lhildebrand@rb.arch.rwth-aachen.de; griet.verbeeck@uhasselt.be | Keywords: | architect; BIM; LCA; computational tools; design support; user-friendliness | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/26597 | ISSN: | 0360-1323 | e-ISSN: | 1873-684X | DOI: | 10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.02.016 | ISI #: | 000429631100019 | Rights: | © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2019 |
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