Life Cycle Assessment in the Built Environment - Hardcover

Crawford, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041555795X ISBN 13: 9780415557955

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

Life cycle assessment enables the identification of a broad range of potential environmental impacts occurring across the entire life of a product, from its design through to its eventual disposal or reuse. Against a backdrop of environmental standards  becoming increasingly stringent, and the growing environmental consciousness of clients, the importance of life cycle assessment to those working in the built environment has increased dramatically.

After outlining the framework for life cycle assessment, this book uses a range of case studies to demonstrate the innovative input-output-based hybrid approach for compiling a life cycle inventory. This approach enables a comprehensive analysis of a broad range of resource requirements and environmental outputs so that the potential environmental impacts of a building or infrastructure system can be ascertained. These case studies cover a range of elements that are part of the built environment, including a residential building, a commercial office building and a wind turbine, as well as individual building components such as a residential-scale photovoltaic system.

Comprehensively introducing and demonstrating the uses and benefits of life cycle assessment for built environment projects, this book will show you how to assess the environmental performance of your clients projects, to compare design options across their entire life and to identify opportunities for improving environmental performance.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert H. Crawford is a Future Generation Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has broad research expertise in the built environment, sustainability, life cycle assessment and renewable energy. He has most recently been researching building environmental assessment, with a particular focus on sustainable resource use, the environmentally appropriate selection of materials and sustainable building design and feasibility. He is an expert in embodied energy and water analysis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 041555795X
• ISBN 13: 9780415557955
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248