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Building Life Cycle Assessment

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    The course aims at enabling students to: - Evaluate life-cycle impacts and costs of competing alternatives. - Identify and delimit the system boundary. - Define and handle allocation problems. - Select characterization methods, as well as midpoint and endpoint approaches. - Identify and use data from LCA databases. - Collect and use data from LCA Software Tools and other sources. - Report and apply LCA results.
  • Course Goals
  • Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • Responsible Consumption and Production
  • Life on Land

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    Evaluating life-cycle costs of competing project alternatives techniques, Identification and delimitation of the system boundary, Defining and handling of allocation problems, selection of characterization method, midpoint and endpoint approaches, Identification and use of data from LCA databases, collection and use of data from other sources, LCA Software Tools, results reporting and application.
  • Department
    Architecture Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Major Assessment (35 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 0% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
  • - Yang Frances. 2018. Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment : Reference Building Structure and Strategies. Reston Virginia: American Society of Civil Engineers.
  • - Gobin Christophe. 2018. Successful Building Using Ecodesign. Bacc Raton: CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group CRC Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group an Informa Business. INSERT-MISSING-URL..
  • - Bayer, C., Gamble, M., Gentry, R., & Joshi, S. (2010). AIA guide to building life cycle assessment in practice. The American Institute of Architects, Washington DC. Available at: https://www.aia.org/resources/7961-building-life-cycle-assessment-in-practice
  • - Online tutorials of selected LCA software tools (BEES, GaBi, SimaPro, Envest & Athena IE).