Life cycle assessment and life cycle costing of container-based single-family housing in Canada: A case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 106332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chinyere Dara ◽  
Caroline Hachem-Vermette ◽  
Getachew Assefa
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Life Cycle Costing ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Family Housing

Life cycle assessment of a single-family residential building in Canada: A case study

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiqian Zhang ◽  
Shen Tan ◽  
Yizhong Lei ◽  
Shoubing Wang
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Single Family

scholarly journals Life Cycle Assessment of a French Single-Family House Refurbishment: The “Bat-Eco2” Case Study

Procedia CIRP ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 160-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Colli ◽  
Alain Bataille ◽  
Emmanuel Antczak ◽  
François Buyle-Bodin
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Family House

The Impact of Decisions Made in Various Architectural Design Stages on Life Cycle Assessment Results

2016 ◽  
Vol 861 ◽  
pp. 593-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedek Kiss ◽  
Zsuzsa Szalay
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Single Family ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an advantageous tool for the analysis of the overall environmental effects of a building. Most of the decisions that influence the final result of an LCA are made during the design process of the building. Therefore, LCA in early design stages is crucial, because the changes in this period of design are cheaper and more effective. However, there are many other aspects that influence the design of a building. During the design process a high number of variables have to be defined, and in each design stage a specific number of variables have to be fixed depending on various engineering considerations. In this paper we investigate the effect of decisions made in each design stage on LCA results. Within this paper the available possibilities are compared with the variant that was actually selected in each stage, and it is evaluated how environmental indicators evolve during the whole design process. The approach is demonstrated on a case study of a realized single family house.

scholarly journals Life Cycle Costing: Understanding How It Is Practised and Its Relationship to Life Cycle Management—A Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianna Lena Kambanou
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Life Cycle Management ◽  
Life Cycle Costing ◽  
Methodological Choices ◽  
Manufacturing Company

Despite the existence of many life cycle costing (LCC) methods, LCC is not widely adopted and LCC methods are usually further tailored by practitioners. Moreover, little is known about how practising LCC improves life cycle management (LCM) especially if LCM is considered emergent and constantly developing. In a manufacturing company, LCC is prescriptively introduced to improve LCM. In the first part, this study describes how various methodological choices and other aspects of practising LCC were the outcome of contestation and conformity with extant practices and not only the best way to fulfil the LCC’s objective. This contestation can even influence if LCC is adopted. In the second part of the research, the implications of practising LCC on LCM are explored. LCC is found to positively propel LCM in many ways e.g., by spreading the life cycle idea, but may lead to a narrower understanding of the term life cycle resulting in the sustainability focus of LCM being overridden. The article also discusses how the findings can be taken into consideration when researchers develop LCC methods and when industry practises LCC.

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