International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) Handbook: Review Schemes for Life Cycle Assessment

Chomkhamsri, Kirana; Wolf, Marc‐Andree; Pant, Rana

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-1899-9_11

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“…Primary data is measured and modelled for catching a product or service in LCA. Secondary data is collected from literature, open sources, data base in software and national and international sources [44,45]. One of the software that is used in the evaluation and the modelling of LCA is the GaBi software [32].…”

Section: Life Cycle Assessment (Lca) Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One of the software that is used in the evaluation and the modelling of LCA is the GaBi software [32]. One previous study [44][45][46] used the GaBi software as the main basis for evaluating and calculating probable environmental impacts as well as the maintenance of traditional ballasted and bitumen-stabilized ballast (BSB) track-bed. In another study using GaBi, the values of each impact group were evaluated at the mid-point level and derived conclusions through the application of the ReCiPe impact assessment method [25,44,47].…”

Section: Life Cycle Assessment (Lca) Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Assessment on Embodied Energy of Non-Load Bearing Walls for Office Buildings

2020

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Two important factors that have been put in the limelight in the current age are environmental concerns and sustainable future. The building sector has emerged as an important player in this matter due to their contribution into the large share of resources and energy consumption as well as harmful greenhouse gas emission. This paper discusses the percentage of embodied energy (EE) in two common building wall materials in Malaysia: steel and concrete. Concrete is used in concrete non-load bearing walls and steel is used to manufacture curtain walls. Although there are more materials used in the selected case studies, steel and concrete possess the high amount of embodied energy. Thus, the concrete wall and curtain wall in the lifecycle analysis (LCA) pre-use phase in high-rise office buildings in Malaysia are considered in this research. GaBi software is used to evaluate and calculate embodied energy in the case studies. The functional unit for this LCA study is determined as one cubic meter of concrete non-load bearing wall and curtain wall. In order to determine the components included in the analysis, input-output flowcharts are created for each process. The comparison of these walls shows that curtain wall has more embodied energy than concrete. The highest amount of embodied energy in curtain wall construction for case B is 4873.89 MJ, and for the case A is 4851.09 MJ approximately. The amount of EE in the concrete non-load bearing wall for both case studies are the lowest amount, with 278.85 MJ for case A and 280.66 MJ for case B. Results also show that the manufacturing of materials is the biggest contribution to the amount of EE at more than 50%, whereas transportation is between 1.83% and 3.77% only.

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Section: Life Cycle Assessment (Lca) Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Life Cycle Assessment (Lca) Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessment on Embodied Energy of Non-Load Bearing Walls for Office Buildings

2020

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“…At [33], which facilitates the use of ISO standards in the field of LCA, investigating various aspects of the methodology.…”

Section: Brief Synopsis Of Lca and Its Regulationsmentioning

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Evaluation of the Sustainability of Energy Retrofit Interventions on the Historical Heritage: A Case Study in the City of Matera, Italy

Selicati¹,

Cardinale²,

Dassisti³

2020

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For some years now the regulations in the sustainability field oriented the practitioners towards an increasing restraint concerning energy necessities, to reconsider the weight in terms of energy and environmental impacts associated with different phases of their life cycle. Among the reliable models to carry out the valuation, the Life Cycle Assessment remains a useful tool that determine the most impactful stages of the life cycle of any process and, thus, its environmental performances. This paper aims to develop and complete previous analyses on sustainability led on the historical heritage of the city of Matera, highlighting all the issues that are still unresolved and the possible solutions to be undertaken. Deep considerations on sustainability and its peculiarities are carried out. A reported analysis of literature and a description of the methods and tools used in the case study are shown. The case study consists in performing the LCA using SimaPro software, based on the assumptions aimed to the energetic retrofit for "Palazzo del Sedile", an historical building located in Matera, Italy. In this section, three methods of assessment are largely described, the choice has been made due to their significance in expressing the environmental effects from three very different perspectives.

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“…It has been developed through peer review and consultation and is in accordance with ISO standards 14040 and 14044, while it provides further specified guidance for better reproducibility and qualityassurance than the broader ISO basic framework can define. To facilitate this development, links have been established with National LCA Database projects in all parts of the world, and with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), (Chomkhamsri et al, 2015). Building on the ISO standard framework, the ILCD Handbook provides three separate documents: 1 -"Review schemes for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)", 2 -"Reviewer qualification for Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data sets", and 3 -"Review scope, methods and documentation", to address critical review in an LCA study and its applications.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In addition to the reviewer, interested parties shall be openly invited to participate in the process regarding LCA frameworks which could be differently applied in some cases. The accredited reviewer from a fourth party is not foreseen for the ILCD system (Chomkhamsri et al, 2015).…”

Section: -Ilcd Handbook: International Series Of Technical Guidence Lmentioning

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Proposal for a LCA improvement roadmap in the Agri-food sector based on information exchange requirements and the enclosed data in recent LCAs works

Barros¹

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International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) Handbook: Review Schemes for Life Cycle Assessment

Abstract: The mission of the JRC-IES is to provide scientific-technical support to the European Union's Policies for the protection and sustainable development of the European and global environment.

Cited by 108 publications

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Assessment on Embodied Energy of Non-Load Bearing Walls for Office Buildings

Assessment on Embodied Energy of Non-Load Bearing Walls for Office Buildings

Evaluation of the Sustainability of Energy Retrofit Interventions on the Historical Heritage: A Case Study in the City of Matera, Italy

Proposal for a LCA improvement roadmap in the Agri-food sector based on information exchange requirements and the enclosed data in recent LCAs works

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