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Integrating climate change and energy mix scenarios in LCA of buildings and districts
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In this paper, two methodological approaches were developed following the modelling principles of attributional and consequential life cycle assessment (LCA) to evaluate life cycle impacts of buildings, integrating climate change (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5) and evolution of the energy mix on the long term.About:
This article is published in Applied Energy.The article was published on 2016-12-15. It has received 85 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Life-cycle assessment & Energy mix.read more
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Life Cycle Assessment of building stocks from urban to transnational scales: A review
TL;DR: In this paper, a set of selected bottom-up LCA studies evaluating the environmental impact of building stocks at several scales, from urban to transnational, were analyzed according to three common elements: building stock aggregation model, energy analysis and LCA.
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Climate change and the building sector: Modelling and energy implications to an office building in southern Europe
TL;DR: In this article, the potential impact of climate change on the energy uses for heating and cooling in southern Europe, based on the assumptions of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) future climate projections (assessment report 5), was analyzed using different metrics for selecting the most suitable one to be applied to building simulation.
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Carbon mitigation in domains of high consumer lock-in
Diana Ivanova,Gibran Vita,Richard Wood,Carine Lausselet,Adina Dumitru,Karen Krause,Irina Macsinga,Edgar G. Hertwich +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study specific alternative consumption patterns seeking both to understand the behavioral and structural factors that determine those patterns and quantify their effect on carbon footprints, and find that the key determining element to reduced emissions is settlement density, while car ownership, rising income and long distances are associated with higher mobility footprints.
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Effects of climate change on variations in climatic zones and heating energy consumption of residential buildings in the southern Chile
Konstantin Verichev,Konstantin Verichev,Konstantin Verichev,Montserrat Zamorano,Manuel Carpio +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, changes in climatic zones for building in three regions in southern Chile have been analyzed under the conditions of two future climatic scenarios (RCP2.6 and RCP8.5).
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Sustainability in the construction industry: A review of recent developments based on LCA
TL;DR: In this paper, a review brings together research on life cycle assessment (LCA) applied within the building sector, focusing on the LCA methodology and tools employed in the built environment.
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Life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle energy analysis (LCEA) of buildings and the building sector: A review
TL;DR: In this article, a review summarizes and organizes the literature on life cycle assessment (LCA), life cycle energy analysis (LCEA), and life cycle cost analysis for environmental evaluation of buildings and building related industry and sector (including construction products, construction systems, buildings, and civil engineering constructions).
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A low energy building in a life cycle - its embodied energy, energy need for operation and recycling potential
TL;DR: In this paper, the recycling potential of the most energy efficient apartment housing in Sweden (45 kWh/m(2) ) was analyzed and it was shown that the recycling could account for between 35% and 40% of the embodied energy.
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Life-Cycle Assessment and the Environmental Impact of Buildings: A Review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the use of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in the building sector and highlight the importance of LCA as a decision-making support tool.
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Integrated life-cycle assessment of electricity-supply scenarios confirms global environmental benefit of low-carbon technologies.
Edgar G. Hertwich,Thomas Gibon,Evert A. Bouman,Anders Arvesen,Sangwon Suh,Garvin Heath,Joseph D. Bergesen,Andrea Ramirez,Mabel Vega,Lei Shi +9 more
TL;DR: This paper presents the first global, integrated life-cycle assessment of the large-scale implementation of climate-mitigation technologies, addressing the feedback of the electricity system onto itself and using scenario-consistent assumptions of technical improvements in key energy and material production technologies.