Environmental tools in building construction industry – A state of the art review for LCA applications in building sector
The research work to be presented in this paper aims at the comparison of different environmental tools for improving environmental, social and economic indicators towards sustainability in the building construction sector. Moreover, this work reviews in detail the LCA concept and the tools applied in the building environment, as an effort to bring together research on life cycle assessment and practical application.
The review is mainly focusing on LCA applications for building materials and components combination, as well as for the entire life cycle of the building over the last nine years, outlining the differences between the LCA approaches. The tools used for the life cycle assessment are separated into three basic categories, depending mainly on the extent of analysis, the systems studied, the orientation and the environmental impact categories examined.
Autor(en)
E. Giama, D. Anastaselos, Agis M. Papadopoulos
Contentpartner
© Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Publikation
2nd International Conference - 2009 (Juni 2009)
Verkaufspreis
im BASIC-Abonnement enthalten