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LCA di MEP e TI negli edifici

Domanda di ricerca:

Quali sono le gamme tipiche di carbonio incorporato (e altre misure di impatto) per il miglioramento meccanico, elettrico, idraulico (MEP) e del locatario (TI)?

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Questo studio è un'estensione del Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) per Low Carbon Construction Project. Il Dipartimento della qualità ambientale dell'Oregon ha selezionato il miglioramento meccanico, elettrico e idraulico (MEP) e il miglioramento degli inquilini (TI) come argomenti di ricerca di interesse da indagare perché i dati su questi impatti ambientali sono molto pochi. Questo studio presenta stime delle quantità di materiale e dell'impatto ambientale per gli edifici per uffici commerciali nel Pacifico nord-occidentale.

Risultati

Gruppo di ricerca

  • K. Simonen (PI)
  • HW Lee (Co-PI)
  • BX Rodriguez
  • M. Huang
  • J. Ditto

Ringraziamenti

Questa ricerca è stata finanziata dal Dipartimento della qualità ambientale dell'Oregon. Anche il più ampio progetto di costruzione a basse emissioni di carbonio è stato finanziato dalla Charles Pankow Foundation e da Skanska USA. Questo progetto è stato reso possibile anche da una serie di consulenti e collaboratori del progetto, elencati nei rapporti.

Risorse addizionali

Andrew Ellsworth, fondatore e CEO di Porte scardinate, ha creato un poster di ricerca per la Project Drawdown Conference evidenziando l'importanza del riutilizzo dei materiali da costruzione, supportato dai dati di questo progetto di ricerca. Per visualizzare il poster, fare clic sulla miniatura sotto.

Building spaces need LCAs

Libreria di risorse

Reclaimed and Reused: Recommended LCA Modeling Guidance to Support EPDs for Reused Construction Materials

Material reuse is one strategy for reducing the embodied carbon of construction. While the preparation of previously used materials for reuse has an environmental impact, it avoids many of the resource extraction and manufacturing impacts of building with newly manufactured products. Given the amount of demolition and deconstruction across North America (and beyond), there is a vast potential for material reuse to expand in scale. However, barriers to material reuse scaling exist.

DEQ Low Embodied Carbon Housing Program: Roadmap to Success

Embodied Carbon Pathways to 2050 for the United States, a collaboration between the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF), RMI, and the University of Washington (UW) Life Cycle Lab, provides an assessment of embodied carbon from US construction materials and explores pathways to align with a 1.5°C global warming limit.

International Embodied Carbon Data Availability: A Review of Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) Availability in Europe, China, and Australia

CLF completed a landscape analysis of product-level embodied carbon data availability in regions outside North America with the goals of: (i) understanding how LCA/EPD data availability varies globally; (ii) informing where targeted initiatives are needed to increase the availability of data; and (iii) determining whether adequate EPD data exists to develop CLF Material Baselines outside North America. This report summarizes our findings and provides initial insights into what data is available to inform low-carbon procurement efforts in Australia, China, and Europe.

The CLF Benchmark Explorer

Emissions from the operations of buildings and infrastructure are significant, well-understood contributors to national and global greenhouse gas emissions. However, the contribution of embodied carbon—emissions associated with the manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance, and disposal of construction materials across the life cycle of a building or asset—is neglected by comparison. Even at the global level, embodied carbon estimates are typically based on manufacturing emissions from the production of a handful of the highest-impact materials (e.g. concrete, steel, aluminum, and wood).

Embodied Carbon Pathways to 2050 for the United States

Embodied Carbon Pathways to 2050 for the United States, a collaboration between the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF), RMI, and the University of Washington (UW) Life Cycle Lab, provides an assessment of embodied carbon from US construction materials and explores pathways to align with a 1.5°C global warming limit.

Washington State Carbon Emissions Estimation: 2025 – 2050

Emissions from the operations of buildings and infrastructure are significant, well-understood contributors to national and global greenhouse gas emissions. However, the contribution of embodied carbon—emissions associated with the manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance, and disposal of construction materials across the life cycle of a building or asset—is neglected by comparison. Even at the global level, embodied carbon estimates are typically based on manufacturing emissions from the production of a handful of the highest-impact materials (e.g. concrete, steel, aluminum, and wood).

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