International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2019
Advancing Resilient and Sustainable Buildings through a New Normative Workflow for Integrated Life-Cycle Assessments
Publication: International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2019: Leading Resilient Communities through the 21st Century
ABSTRACT
Traditionally assessment of building sustainability has focused on operating energy. Only recently has there been a shift towards consideration of embodied energy, due to a rise in energy-efficient technologies and a growing concern over material manufacturing processes. However, for a comprehensive embodied energy estimate, the impacts of material choice on vulnerability to hazards must also be evaluated in light of the significant environmental impact of repairs. Thus, the design of resilient, sustainable buildings necessitates a holistic projection of environmental impact using an integrated life cycle assessment (iLCA) that accounts for such vulnerabilities driving hazard resilience. This study presents a seamless workflow for iLCA of buildings, which captures the dependencies between multi-hazard resilience and multi-metric sustainability. This practitioner-centered workflow utilizes industry-standard tools, prioritizes open data sources, and provides sufficient granularity to facilitate decision-making. A case study executed in the Revit environment is presented for a location in Los Angeles to illustrate the impact of embodied energy and repairs due to geophysical hazards on life-cycle performance.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation (CMMI-1537652). The first author also recognizes the support of her NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (DGE-1313583) and Dean’s Fellowship from the University of Notre Dame. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF.
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International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2019: Leading Resilient Communities through the 21st Century
Pages: 652 - 659
Editors: Mikhail V. Chester, Ph.D., Arizona State University, and Mark Norton, Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8265-0
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© 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Nov 4, 2019
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