Advances in Prospective Life-Cycle Assessment of the Built Environment for Climate Change Adaptation
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 643
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable construction and retrofit; life-cycle assessment of buildings and building components; sustainability assessment and certification systems of buildings; life-cycle costing; streamlined environmental and cost LCA approaches
Interests: buildings retrofits; energy efficiency; energy conservation measures; district heating and cooling; optimization
Interests: life-cycle assessment; buildings; prefabrication; construction and demolition waste; building stock
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Given the long life-span of buildings, designers and developers must be encouraged to identify effective and eco-efficient strategies that reduce the overall life-cycle (LC) burden of buildings. LC thinking promotes a circular economy perspective, fostering resource and energy efficiency by reducing the amount of raw materials used in construction, and promoting waste valorization during construction, use and end-of-life. Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is a broadly used methodology to evaluate the environmental impacts of buildings and identify hot spots and improvement opportunities. However, prospective LCA have not been applied to buildings. Considering future climate uncertainty, it is essential to predict how buildings and the urban environment would behave under future climate scenarios with an increase in global temperature. The existing building stock play an important role in boosting decarbonization targets, as most existing buildings are not energy-efficient and mainly rely on fossil fuels for heating and cooling, and use old technologies and inefficient appliances. Local synergies for creating district energy supply systems are not explored. Additionally, construction and demolition waste is an environmental problem representing around 30% of the waste produced and can be an essential resource in a more circular construction sector.. This special issue aims contributing to answer the following research questions: How can existing buildings be adapted for climate change scenarios? How will be the environmental performance of existing buildings under an increase in global temperature ? Which are the most promising building and urban design strategies to promote lower environmental life-cycle impacts and costs for the existing building stock? How to assess building stock future performance? How to promote the circular economy in the construction sector? In order to answer these questions, novel and disrupting methodological developments, reviews, as well as case-study applications, are welcome to this special issue to assess the building stock (both at building- and urban-level) in different contexts under future climate scenarios, combining building energy simulation, statistical modelling, economic analysis and prospective lifecycle-based approaches.
I am serving as one of the guest editors on the Special Issue on "Advances in prospective life-cycle assessment of the built environment for climate change adaptation” and hereby I would like to invite you all to contribute to the this special issue.
Novel and disrupting methodological developments, reviews, as well as case-study applications, are welcome to this special issue to assess the building stock (both at building- and urban-level) in different contexts under future climate scenarios, combining building energy simulation, statistical modeling, economic analysis and prospective lifecycle-based approaches.
The deadline for submission is 15 July 2022.
Please find more information regarding this special issue below my signature.
If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me or any of my co-editors.
We are looking forward to receiving your valuable contributions. Please feel free to share this invitation with your peers and colleagues in related fields.
Thank you very much,
Dr. Carla Rodrigues
Dr. Sérgio Tadeu
Dr. Vanessa Tavares
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- life-cycle assessment
- urban energy systems
- circular economy
- end-of-life management
- energy efficiency
- buildings
- climate change adaptation
- eco-efficiency
- construction and demolition waste, building stock.
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