The GWP-Chart: An environmental tool for guiding urban planning processes. Application to concrete sidewalks

Oliver-Solà, Jordi; Josa, Alejandro; Arena, Alejandro Pablo; Gabarrell, Xavier; Rieradevall, Joan

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2011.01.003

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“…For instance, decisions made at the settlement level (orientation, compactness, urban density) largely affect heating/cooling loads, a major contributor to the energy balance of an urban area. Oliver-Solà et al [12] state that it seems more likely that the environmental and energy concerns that nowadays focus mainly on buildings will soon be transferred to neighborhood planning.…”

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Critical review of life cycle assessment (LCA) for the built environment at the neighborhood scale

Lotteau

Loubet

Pousse

et al. 2015

Building and Environment

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Critical review of life cycle assessment (LCA) for the built environment at the neighborhood scale

Lotteau

Loubet

Pousse

et al. 2015

Building and Environment

172

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“…By comparing four scenarios, based on different types of residential buildings, Trigaux et al(2014), show that the contribution of road infrastructure accounts for 1% to 6% of the total impacts. Other researches on LCA were showed on (Simonen,2014;Stephan,2013;Thormark,2000;Trigaux et al,2017a;Trigaux et al,2017b;Wolf et al,2012;Salomon et al,2005;Servaes et al,2013;Service Public de Wallonie,2018;Setac,2003;Oliver et al,2011).The main objective of this research is to carryouta meticulous statistical analysis aimed to better understand, and to discern better, the impacts of sustainable buildings and old buildings on the environment. In addition, this research identifies us with an accuracy of more than 95%, the main elements that affect the environment during the construction, operation, renovation, and demolition of buildings.…”

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Statistical life cycle assessment of residential buildings in a temperate climate of northern part of Europe

Nematchoua

Teller

Reiter

2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Nowadays, with the new technology, the explosion of new products and the implementation of the new construction rules, it is important to evaluate the effect of the strong human pressure on nature. Thus, the analysis of the life cycle of a product (i.e., building) makes it possible to evaluate its main environmental impacts (energy demand, greenhouse gas emissions, product waste, water consumption, etc.) from raw materials manufacturing to its end of life (demolition).The purpose of this research is to carryout a meticulous statistical analysis aimed to better understand and to discern better the impact of sustainable buildings and old buildings on the environment. In addition, this research identifies the main elements that affect the environment during the construction, operation, renovation, and demolition of buildings.59 residences were analyzed (29 durable residences and 30 old residences), distributed in two districts of the Liege city. Several software tools were used(IBM SPSS statistical, ALCYONE, COMFIE-PLEIADES, and nova-EQUER) to statistically evaluate the 12 environmental impacts considered in this study .The results showed that the impacts of sustainable buildings and old buildings on the environment are very significant. Despite that, it is difficult to identify a clear difference between the environmentalimpact from old and sustainable buildings .The total lifecycle greenhouse gas(LCGHG) and energy of the whole the residential buildings represents 17.225 ktCO 2 -e and 362.8TJ, respectively, over 100 years. The building operation phase (or use phase) consume significant amount of life cycle energy (from 81.0 to 94.3%), but also, the largest contribution to the life cycle greenhouse gas (between 75.6% and 91.3%).

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“…For instance, decisions made at the settlement level (orientation, compactness, urban density) largely affect heating/cooling loads, a major contributor to the energy balance of an urban area. [6] states that it seems more likely that the environmental and energy concerns that nowadays focus mainly on buildings will soon be transferred to neighborhood planning.…”

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Environmental Assessment of Sustainable Neighborhood Projects through NEST, a Decision Support Tool for Early Stage Urban Planning

Lotteau

Yepez-Salmon

Salmon

2015

Procedia Engineering

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Urban planners are facing a growing demand for high performance projects in terms of control and reduction of environmental impacts. However, the complex and multi-dimensional concept of sustainable urban development often loses its core substance when confronted to practice realities of urban projects because of a lack of adapted decision support tools. The question arises as to how the effective consideration of the environment and the limitation of the project impacts can be taken into account as soon as the early design stages? As an answer to this question, we developed NEST (Neighborhood Evaluation for Sustainable Territories), a life cycle assessment (LCA) tool for the built environment at the neighborhood scale. LCA has been increasingly used to assess the environmental impacts of construction products and buildings during the last 25 years. And today, a new trend stems in the application of LCA to larger systems such as urban islets or neighborhoods. NEST addresses early design stages, and uses 3D models of neighborhood projects to quantitatively assess a set of environmental impacts. In this paper we propose a presentation of the tool, and an application through the case study of a new development project for a peri-urban area.

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The GWP-Chart: An environmental tool for guiding urban planning processes. Application to concrete sidewalks

Cited by 25 publications

References 18 publications

Critical review of life cycle assessment (LCA) for the built environment at the neighborhood scale

Critical review of life cycle assessment (LCA) for the built environment at the neighborhood scale

Statistical life cycle assessment of residential buildings in a temperate climate of northern part of Europe

Environmental Assessment of Sustainable Neighborhood Projects through NEST, a Decision Support Tool for Early Stage Urban Planning

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