A digital tool for life cycle assessment in construction projects
Campo Gay, Irene ; Hvam, Lars ; Haug, Anders ; Huang, George Q. and Larsson, Robert LU
(2024)
In Developments in the Built Environment
20(100535).
- Abstract
- The building and construction industry is responsible for around 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions, driving the urgent need for new regulations. As such, the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology has become fundamental for evaluating environmental impacts. Despite the need for digital tools to support environmental performance evaluations, the lack of guidance on developing such tools hinders their implementation. This article presents an automated configuration approach to develop digital tools in construction, which facilitates the proactive comparison of design choices and reduces CO2 emissions. We demonstrate its application by implementing it at Heidelberg Materials Cement Sverige in Sweden. The results reveal that the LCA... (More)
- The building and construction industry is responsible for around 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions, driving the urgent need for new regulations. As such, the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology has become fundamental for evaluating environmental impacts. Despite the need for digital tools to support environmental performance evaluations, the lack of guidance on developing such tools hinders their implementation. This article presents an automated configuration approach to develop digital tools in construction, which facilitates the proactive comparison of design choices and reduces CO2 emissions. We demonstrate its application by implementing it at Heidelberg Materials Cement Sverige in Sweden. The results reveal that the LCA digital tool influences decision-making and efficiently quantifies global warming potential in the early project stages and reduces product-related CO2 emissions by up to 40%. Furthermore, the findings highlight greater accuracy in LCA calculations compared to current manual methods and quicker design iterations thanks to real-time information. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- The building and construction industry is responsible for around 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions, driving the urgent need for new regulations. As such, the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology has become fundamental for evaluating environmental impacts. Despite the need for digital tools to support environmental performance evaluations, the lack of guidance on developing such tools hinders their implementation. This article presents an automated configuration approach to develop digital tools in construction, which facilitates the proactive comparison of design choices and reduces CO2 emissions. We demonstrate its application by implementing it at Heidelberg Materials Cement Sverige in Sweden. The results reveal that the LCA... (More)
- The building and construction industry is responsible for around 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions, driving the urgent need for new regulations. As such, the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology has become fundamental for evaluating environmental impacts. Despite the need for digital tools to support environmental performance evaluations, the lack of guidance on developing such tools hinders their implementation. This article presents an automated configuration approach to develop digital tools in construction, which facilitates the proactive comparison of design choices and reduces CO2 emissions. We demonstrate its application by implementing it at Heidelberg Materials Cement Sverige in Sweden. The results reveal that the LCA digital tool influences decision-making and efficiently quantifies global warming potential in the early project stages and reduces product-related CO2 emissions by up to 40%. Furthermore, the findings highlight greater accuracy in LCA calculations compared to current manual methods and quicker design iterations thanks to real-time information. (Less)
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- author
- Campo Gay, Irene
; Hvam, Lars
; Haug, Anders
; Huang, George Q.
and Larsson, Robert
LU
- publishing date
- 2024-09-06
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- CO2 emission reductions, Configuration system, Digital tool, Environmental impact, Environmental product declaration, LCA configurator, Life Cycle Assessment
- in
- Developments in the Built Environment
- volume
- 20
- issue
- 100535
- pages
- 19 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85203532524
- ISSN
- 2666-1659
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.dibe.2024.100535
- language
- English
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- 06e38830-3e61-427e-a760-6824b51faf9d
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- 2025-08-13 08:26:20
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