Building ’ s external walls in Life-Cycle Assessment ( LCA ) research studies
Building ’ s external walls in Life-Cycle Assessment ( LCA ) research studies
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生命周期评估 (LCA) 研究中的建筑物外墙
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2010
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M. Pinheiro
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J. Silvestre;J. Brito;M. Pinheiro
The evaluation of the environmental impacts of buildings should be made from a life-cycle point of view. This implies the consideration, for each building assembly, of the source of the construction materials, of the resources used in their execution, of the maintenance operations, of their expected service life, and of the replacement or demolition operations. The life-cycle assessment (LCA) integrated approach is one of the most used ways to achieve this goal. This methodology could be applied via a “cradle to grave” approach (including the extraction and processing of raw materials, the transport and distribution, the use, maintenance and final disposal) or “cradle to cradle” approach (also including the reuse and/or recycling) (Ortiz et al. 2009) based on ISO 14040:2006 and ISO 14044:2006 international standards (ISO 14040:2006(E) 2006, ISO 14044:2006(E) 2006). The application of the LCA evaluation method must be followed by the creation of extensive and reliable Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data on the processes, namely concerning the construction materials. This effort is already being done in Europe (ELCD European Life Cycle Database (Commission 2009)) and North America (US LCI Database http://www.lcacenter.org/ database.html). The envelope is one of the main parts of the buildings. One of its parts, the external walls, directly influence the thermal and environmental performance of the building envelope through their considerable weight in the envelope’s initial embodied energy, life cycle energy consumption, life cycle cost and the users comfort. They could represent up to 15 % of the overall environmental impacts of a building over a 60-year life cycle (Bingel et al. 2006). The environmenABSTRACT: The evaluation of the environmental impacts of buildings should consider the source of the construction materials, the resources used in the execution, the maintenance operations, the expected service life, and the replacement and/or demolition operations of each of the building assemblies. The Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) integrated approach allows for the collection of the data concerning all these phases of the building’s life-cycle and the evaluation of the corresponding environmental impacts. The envelope is one of the main parts of the buildings and the external walls directly influence the thermal and environmental performance of the building envelope. This paper presents a detailed review of LCA results of more than ten years of international research studies on the environmental impact of a building’s external walls, including the summary of the main results. The recommendations to improve the reliability and widen the scope and usefulness of these research studies are also presented. Building’s external walls in Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) research studies