Loading…

Towards a Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment method for the quantification and reduction of impacts of buildings life cycle

The construction and building sectors are one of the highest consumers of resources and energy. Literature evidences the potentialities of the design phase towards the improvement of environmental, economic and social performance of buildings. Thus, the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). a...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science 2019-08, Vol.323 (1), p.12107
Main Authors: Llatas, C, Angulo Fornos, R, Bizcocho, N, Cortés Albalá, I, Falcón Ganfornina, R, Galeana, I, García-Martínez, A, Gómez de Cózar, J C, López Alonso, S, Meda, P, Mercado Martínez, J M, Montes, M V, Periañez Cristobal, R, Quiñones, R, Rojo, T, Rubio Bellido, C, Ruiz Alfonsea, M, Soust-Verdaguer, B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The construction and building sectors are one of the highest consumers of resources and energy. Literature evidences the potentialities of the design phase towards the improvement of environmental, economic and social performance of buildings. Thus, the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). approach is recognized as suitable method. It is based on the "triple bottom line" principle, to calculate environmental, economic, social impacts produced by buildings during its life cycle. The present paper aims to present a methodological framework based on an LCSA, used during design stages of buildings and integrated into a building's design technology such as Building Information Modeling (BIM). A conceptual approach to conduct the data integration and a possible workflow to integrate the LCSA into BIM is proposed. The value of the present approach is the possibility to conduct quantitative environmental, economic and social assessment of buildings to guide designers to measure and predict the building's performance.
ISSN:1755-1307
1755-1315
DOI:10.1088/1755-1315/323/1/012107