Life cycle assessment and life cycle cost implication of residential buildings—A review

Islam, Hamidul; Jollands, Margaret; Setunge, Sujeeva

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2014.10.006

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“…Relatively fewer studies [23][24][25][26] integrated both LCA and LCC in their analysis. First author's three recent studies [27,28,61] integrated both LCA and LCC for other goals. However, there are no published studies that have taken LCA and LCC together along with star rating to identify optimum roofing and floor designs.…”

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Life cycle assessment and life cycle cost implications for roofing and floor designs in residential buildings

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Setunge

et al. 2015

Energy and Buildings

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Life cycle assessment and life cycle cost implications for roofing and floor designs in residential buildings

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Jollands

Setunge

et al. 2015

Energy and Buildings

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“…On this basis, the primary building materials in non-residential buildings applicable to the streamlined LCA of G-SEED were identified [35]. Figure 5 shows a graph for the cumulative weight contribution of the primary building materials for school and office buildings.…”

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Analysis of the Primary Building Materials in Support of G-SEED Life Cycle Assessment in South Korea

2018

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Abstract:In recent years, much research has been conducted internationally to quantitatively evaluate the environmental impact of buildings in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address associated environmental problems. With this in mind, the Green Standard for Energy and Environmental Design (G-SEED) in South Korea was revised in 2016. However, the various possible evaluation methods make it difficult to conduct building life cycle assessment. Moreover, compared to research on residential buildings, life cycle assessment research on non-residential buildings is scarce. Therefore, this study analyzes primary building materials for life cycle assessment of current non-residential buildings to support Korean G-SEED requirements. Design documents for various non-residential buildings are obtained, and the types and numbers of materials used in production are determined. Next, the primary building materials contributing high cumulative weight based on the ISO14040 series of standards are analyzed. We then review the most commonly-used building materials while considering non-residential building types and structures. In addition, construction material reliability is evaluated using the environmental impact unit value. With our results, by suggesting the primary building materials in non-residential buildings, efficient life cycle assessment of non-residential buildings is possible in terms of time and cost.

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“…Research has shown that this approach can be easily adopted for materials such as concrete [23,24]. Another merit of this method is its utility in evaluation of building [25][26][27][28][29][30] and road construction [31] applications. In view of these merits, this study uses LCA for evaluation of energy consumption, CO 2 emission, and the costs associated with aggregate production and recycling.…”

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Economic and Environmental Evaluation and Optimal Ratio of Natural and Recycled Aggregate Production

Ghanbari

Abbasi

Ravanshadnia

2017

Advances in Materials Science and Engineering

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Steady increase in overexploitation of stone quarries, generation of construction and demolition waste, and costs of preparing extra landfill space have become environmental and waste management challenges in metropolises. In this paper, aggregate production is studied in two scenarios: scenario 1 representing the production of natural aggregates (NA) and scenario 2 representing the production of recycled aggregates (RA). This study consists of two parts. In the first part, the objective is the environmental assessment (energy consumption and CO 2 emission) and economic (cost) evaluation of these two scenarios, which is pursued by life-cycle assessment (LCA) method. In the second part, the results of the first part are used to estimate the optimal combination of production of NA and RA and thereby find an optimal solution (scenario) for a more eco-friendly aggregate production. The defined formulas and relationship are used to develop a model. The results of model validation show that the optimal ratio, in optimal scenario, is 50%. The results show that, compared to scenario 1, optimal scenario improves the energy consumption, CO 2 emissions, and production cost by, respectively, 30%, 36%, and 31%, which demonstrate the effectiveness of this optimization.

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Life cycle assessment and life cycle cost implication of residential buildings—A review

Cited by 237 publications

References 29 publications

Life cycle assessment and life cycle cost implications for roofing and floor designs in residential buildings

Life cycle assessment and life cycle cost implications for roofing and floor designs in residential buildings

Analysis of the Primary Building Materials in Support of G-SEED Life Cycle Assessment in South Korea

Economic and Environmental Evaluation and Optimal Ratio of Natural and Recycled Aggregate Production

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