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    Life Cycle Assessment for Cost-Effective Energy and Carbon Emissions Optimization in Building Renovation

    TitleLife Cycle Assessment for Cost-Effective Energy and Carbon Emissions Optimization in Building Renovation
    Publication TypeBooks
    Year of Publication2017
    AuthorsLasvaux S., Favre D., Perriset B., Mahroua S., and Citherlet S.
    EditorsAlmeida, Manuela G.
    Secondary TitleAnnex 56
    Abstract

    The IEA-EBC Annex 56 project "Cost-Effective Energy and Carbon Emissions Optimization in Building Renovation" (Annex 56) intends to develop the basics for future standards, which aim at maximizing effects on reducing carbon emissions and primary energy use while taking into account the cost-effectiveness of related measures. Thus, it is necessary to quantify the so-called embodied primary energy and embodied carbon emissions due to the manufacturing, replacement and end-of-life (e.g., disposal or recycling) of construction materials and building integrated technical systems (BITS) added during a building renovation. The increasing building renovation towards nearly zero energy-building standard is expected to lead to a relative increase of embodied energy and embodied carbon emissions. Therefore, it is important to perform a LCA analysis, to involve these notions in the IEA EBC Annex 56 methodology.

    Number of Pages110
    Date Published2017-02-28
    PublisherUniversidade do Minho
    ISBN978-989-99799-3-2
    KeywordsEmbodied carbon emissions, Embodied energy, LCA
    URLhttp://www.iea-annex56.org/index.aspx?MenuID=4&SubMenuID=33
    RightsopenAccess
    Peer reviewedyes
    Statuspublished
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    The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.

    Currently CTAC aggregates 25 researchers holding a PhD of which 20 are faculty professors of the Civil Engineering Department. Read more


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