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Towards ecological life-cycle design : Measuring the environmental impact of housing transformations

Year: 2003

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Life Cycle Assessment or LCA is a suitable method to support environmentally-sound decisionmaking in renewal processes in the housing stock.Nevertheless, renovation is not a standard part of LCA of buildings.There are some methodological issues to be solved.The aim of this paper is to present a framework for comparison of housing transformation options, such as new construction and renovation, and renovation options.The framework consists of solutions for the issues of life cycle, building stage and environmental data.Further research will test the framework in a couple of case studies on housing transformation and renovation of neighbourhoods.

Source: Research Repository (Delft University of Technology)

Author: Gerda Klunder

Institution: Delft University of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Environmental Impact and Sustainability

Subfield: Environmental Engineering

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Climate action, Responsible consumption and production

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1573209049

FWCI: 1.059

Cites: 3

Cited by: 6

Related to: 10