A5047317062- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Life Cycle Costing Analysis
- Construction Project Management and Performance
- Facilities and Workplace Management
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Wood Treatment and Properties
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Transportation and Mobility Innovations
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Sustainable Industrial Ecology
- Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives
- Sustainable Design and Development
- Green IT and Sustainability
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2017-2024
Aalborg University
2023-2024
The urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the increasing share of embodied carbon in life-cycle impacts underscore necessity mitigating construction demolition align with Paris Agreement. Urban planning significantly influences material flows, a substantial portion occurring planned urban development areas (UDAs), such as 76% Copenhagen, Denmark. However, research on UDAs is limited, most assessments (LCAs) focusing individual buildings. This study examines CO2e from buildings...
Abstract The IEA EBC Annex 72 focuses on the assessment of primary energy demand, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impacts buildings during production, construction, use (including repair replacement) end life (dismantling), i.e. entire cycle buildings. In one its activities, reference (size, materialisation, operational etc.) were defined which existing national methods are applied using (if available) databases (national/regional) approaches. “be2226” office building in Lustenau,...
Abstract Introduction: The international research project IEA EBC Annex 72 investigates the life cycle related environmental impacts caused by buildings. aims inter alia to harmonise LCA approaches on Methods: To identify major commonalities and discrepancies among national approaches, reference buildings were defined present compare approaches. A residential high-rise building located in Tianjin, China, was selected as one of main construction elements are reinforced concrete shear walls,...
Abstract Purpose Previous life cycle assessments (LCAs) of buildings and building components show a broad range values for the impact maintenance replacement, some highlighting these operations as major hotspots while others consider them insignificant. This article highlights methodological aspects explaining this discrepancy. The influence three is investigated further in case study façade materials: reference period (RSP), service data, use round-up number or annualized impacts. Methods A...
Urban development will increase the demand for new buildings expected to cause significant environmental impacts in coming decades. Spatiotemporal prediction buildings, their typologies, resource quantities and types required construction, associated are crucial effectively tackle strategies reduce related greenhouse gas emissions. Within context of Denmark, this study establishes a prognosis yearly embedded across country towards 2050 based on Business as Usual (frozen policy) trends....
The sharing of indoor space can improve and energy efficiency. drivers barriers to space-sharing initiatives are investigated from the perspectives building users sector practitioners, based on interviews a workshop. role performance metrics in promoting efficiency is further analysed through literature review. From users' perspective, be understood interplay between tangible aspects (<em>e.g.</em> concrete benefits derived sharing), organisational common decision processes conflict...
Abstract Recent life cycle assessments (LCAs) of buildings highlight the importance global warming potential from construction materials, in particular energy-efficient buildings. It is therefore important to address influence methodological choices related materials on LCA results. This paper focuses scenarios for maintenance and replacement building elements. Methods: A literature review carried out summarize state art regarding LCA, their results issues. Additionally, a case study...
Abstract Life cycle assessment (LCA) is increasingly being used as a tool by the building industry and actors to assess global warming potential (GWP) of activities. In several countries, life based requirements on GWP are currently incorporated into regulations. After establishment general calculation rules for LCA, crucial next step evaluate performance specific design. For this, reference values or benchmarks needed, but there approaches defining these. This study presents an overview...
Abstract Wood and bio-based construction products are perceived as a way to use renewable resources, save energy mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG)-emissions during production store carbon the entire service life of building. This article compares footprint per kilogram wood (softwood beams, plywood, oriented strand board panel, fibre board) from perspective cycle assessment methodology for (GHG) emissions practitioners 16 countries participating in IEA Annex 72. These materials used PAL6...
Abstract A better understanding of the material composition existing building stock is important for development circular economy strategies in sector. This paper presents a recently developed model to map types and amounts various materials buildings Denmark, with high level detail at components rather than just types. The meant enable detailed description consideration how could be reused. Building properties are imported from Danish national registry (BBR) processed into relational...
This paper explores how opportunities for reducing the total use of office space can be identified, investigates benefits in terms energy savings from efficiency measures could calculated, and gives a first estimate such values. A simple method to measure is presented tested at two university departments, very low found. variety reasons are identified via interviews with property managers heads concerned departments. These include fact that incentives using efficiently small decision-makers,...
Sustainable building design practices are influenced by requirements, guidelines, criteria for green procurement and certification, assessment tools such as life cycle assessment, etc. This study investigates how artefacts support or define aspirations towards sustainability, through case studies of public housing projects in Sweden Cyprus. The first illustrates constraints mediated set boundaries to the range available sustainable options. On one hand, fulfilling sustainability requirements...
<title>Abstract</title> Wood and other bio-based building materials are often perceived as a good choice from climate mitigation perspective. This article compares the life cycle assessment of same multi-residential perspective 16 countries participating in international project Annex 72 International Energy Agency to determine effects different datasets methods accounting for biogenic carbon wood construction. Three herein considered: two recognized standards (the so-called 0/0 method –1/+1...
Abstract Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is widely used in certifications, regulations, and voluntary declarations covering the climate impact of buildings over their entire value chain. However, biodiversity impacts other environmental categories are often disregarded. Conversely, there a trend towards more systematic assessments that occur on-site as part development projects (e.g. land transformation on project site). off-site occurring throughout rest chain from forestry activities, mining,...
Abstract The planetary boundaries (PBs) are a widely used framework defining “safe operating space” for environmental sustainability at the global level. However, they do not straightforwardly translate into indicators applicable in building project. This paper proposes procedure to set and assess absolute targets related PBs project, exemplified case of Denmark. first step is ensure that assessment method use comparable indicators. Common life cycle (LCA) tools impact categories directly...