A schematic framework for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Green Building Rating System (GBRS)

Sartori, Thais; Drogemuller, Robin; Omrani, Sara; Lamari, Fiona

doi:10.1016/j.jobe.2021.102180

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“…Given the large number of GBRSs available today, as well as the wide range of methods, terms, models, and indicators they use, there is a consistent body of literature that analyzes and compares them [1,4,12,13,19,23,28,[30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37].…”

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Green Building Rating Systems (GBRSs)

Marchi

Antonini

Politi³

2021

Encyclopedia

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Green Building Rating Systems (GBRSs) are typically third-party, voluntary, and market driven standards that measure buildings’ sustainability level by multi-criteria assessment, and encourage the adoption of environmentally, socially and economically sustainable practices in design, construction and operation of buildings (or neighborhoods). GBRSs aim at guiding and assessing the project throughout all its life cycle, thus limiting the negative impact on the environment, as well as on the building occupants’ health and well-being, and even reducing operational costs. Hundreds of GBRSs are now available worldwide, varying in approaches, application processes, and evaluation metrics. BREEAM, CASBEE, Green Star and LEED are among the most applied worldwide. Despite some differences, they all adhere to the same general evaluation structure: project performances ares measured using a set of relevant indicators, grouped per topics such as water management, energy use, materials, site qualities. Each assessed requirement is assigned a score/judgment, the total of which determines the level of sustainability achieved. In addition to regular updates, a current trend is to improve the effectiveness of protocols, making them more comprehensive and accurate, while keeping them easy to use.

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Section: Comparison In Approachesmentioning

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Green Building Rating Systems (GBRSs)

Marchi

Antonini

Politi³

2021

Encyclopedia

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“…The importance to assess environmental impacts at an early stage of building design means that appropriate tools must be used. Several tools have been or are being developed [32,36,37], also with Building Information Modelling (BIM) [38,39]; these are usually time-consuming and suitable for specialized design teams. For less skilled teams, simplified analysis and evaluation tools are needed [31].…”

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Analysis and Assessment of the Building Life Cycle. Indicators and Tools for the Early Design Stage

2021

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Construction is a crucial sector in terms of worldwide environmental impacts. Building material production along with transport and demolition are no exception, because in the last decades, they have constantly increased their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Actions and initiatives are therefore important to tackle the relationship between buildings and climate change. Particularly, it is necessary to develop Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tools useful to calculate the environmental impact of buildings and to make them accessible to designers and stakeholders acting in the building sector. The article aims to contribute to the international debate about environmental assessment indicators for buildings and the simplified LCA based tools. The Embodied Energy (EE) and the Embodied Carbon (EC) have been investigated. The former, related to primary energy content; the latter, associated with the equivalent carbon dioxide emissions. EE and EC have been used as indicators for the development of a calculation tool named EURECA, for assessing the environmental impact of the building over its life cycle, as defined by the EN 15978:2011 standard. The Solar Decathlon Latin America and Caribbean’s house designed and built by an international academic team has been an opportunity to check the indicators and the tool’s effectiveness.

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“…In particular, they offer great potential for mitigating environmental impacts and much attention has been paid to improving their efficiency and performance [11,12]. They have become a central component of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction initiatives [13]. According to Urge-Vorsats et al (2012), resolving to current best pratices in energy efficient technologies could potentially halve energy demand for heating and colling by the year 2050 compared to 2005 levels [14].…”

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Prospective Life Cycle Assessment: Effect of Electricity Decarbonization in Building Sector

Ayagapin¹,

Praene²,

Jaggeshar

et al. 2021

Energies

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The building sector is responsible for 43% of France’s final energy consumption and is strongly associated with a high environmental impact due to its high consumption of energy and natural resources. These impacts are significant in isolated islands. Due to its geographical isolation and an area of 2512 km2, Reunion Island has a heavily carbon-based economy with a high import rate of raw materials for the building sector. This study aimed to investigate the effect of electricity mix decarbonization on residential house environmental impact. The methodology consists of three parts: (i) evaluating environmental impacts of Single-Family Houses (SFH) using life cyce assessment(LCA), (ii) defining SFH typologies using the K-means clustering algorithm, and (iii) implementing energy scenario in LCA of SFH to assess decarbonization effect. The environmental results were particularly sensitive in the operational phase, with a decrease of 83% between 2020 to 2040 of the global warming potential (GWP). The structural phase highlights the weight of imports in the building sector, as a decrease of only 1% is observed. This study clearly shows the necessary energy transition for Reunion Island. In the structural phase, the study recommends that stakeholders reduce imports and increase the share of recovered materials to achieve a substantial reduction in impacts.

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A schematic framework for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Green Building Rating System (GBRS)

Cited by 81 publications

References 40 publications

Green Building Rating Systems (GBRSs)

Green Building Rating Systems (GBRSs)

Analysis and Assessment of the Building Life Cycle. Indicators and Tools for the Early Design Stage

Prospective Life Cycle Assessment: Effect of Electricity Decarbonization in Building Sector

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