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Comprehensiveness and adequacy of tools for the environmental improvement of buildings
Lucas Reijnders,A van Roekel +1 more
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A wide variety of instruments for environmental improvement of buildings can be found in this paper, including scoring instruments, guidance instruments, and life cycle analysis (LCA) instruments, with a focus on indoor environment, siting and user behaviour.About:
This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 1999-03-01. It has received 88 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Scope (project management).read more
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Sustainable construction--the role of environmental assessment tools.
TL;DR: The main objectives of this paper are to examine the development, role and limitations of current environmental building assessment methods in ascertaining building sustainability in different countries and to discuss the concept of developing a sustainability model for project appraisal based on a multi-dimensional approach that will allow alternatives to be ranked.
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Life cycle energy and environmental performance of a new university building: modeling challenges and design implications
TL;DR: In this article, a case study life cycle assessment (LCA) was conducted of a 7300 m2, six-story building with a projected 75 year life span, located on the University of Michigan campus.
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A critical review of building environmental assessment tools
Appu Haapio,Pertti Viitaniemi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the differences between the tools are discussed and the current situation within the tools is critically analyzed, and the benefits of using the tools should be analyzed. But the comparison of the tools and their results is difficult, if not impossible.
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Tools for environmental assessment of the built environment
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of the present status of quantitative tools, as a basis for further research and development, and compare five different tools for quantitative environmental assessment of the built environment.
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A comparative study of environmental performance between prefabricated and traditional residential buildings in China
TL;DR: In this paper, two typical residential projects using the two technologies to conduct a fair comparison between prefabrication technology and cast-in-situ technology were considered, including content analysis, face-to-face interviews and on-site measurements, for data collection Environmental impact categories selected for the study included resource depletion, energy consumption and construction waste discharge.
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Life‐Cycle Assessment in Relation to Risk Assessment: An Evolving Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, a mass-based accounting system is proposed to assess both environmental and human health issues in a product's numerous activities from the raw material extraction to final disposal, which is called LCA.
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The basis for a method to integrate work environment in life cycle assessments
TL;DR: In this article, a method is proposed for including work environment in life cycle assessments based on five quantitative and two qualitative impact categories, including deaths due to work-related accidents and diseases, hearing loss, allergies, eczemas and similar diseases.
ECO-QUANTUM development of LCA based tools for buildings
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed two tools, EQquick and EQ advanced, for large design offices and researchers: to calculate and analyse the environmental impact of buildings and of course to reduce it, they are able to include environmental consequences of designing and of materials in their designs of dwellings and non-domestic buildings.
Green Building challenge '98
Raymond J. Cole,Nils Larsson +1 more
TL;DR: The Green Building Challenge '98 as mentioned in this paper, an international building performance assessment project, has developed an assessment framework for a second generation performance assessment system for a wide variety of applications, including the specification of building performance and as a tool for green labeling systems.