Integration of life cycle assessment and conceptual building design
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Conceptual building design involves decisions that have significant life cycle environmental impact and life cycle cost implications. Designers are aware of the importance of creating sustainable buildings, yet mechanisms are lacking that effectively inform designers of the impacts of design decisions, specifically during the conceptual phase. A method is proposed that provides life cycle impact feedback to designers during the conceptual design phase in a way that better enables designers to make decisions leading to less carbon intensive and less costly buildings. Critical to the method is the development of a set of heuristics requiring very few inputs. These heuristics calculate life cycle impacts for many building design alternatives using an automated approach, thereby allowing designers to understand the full range of impacts possible for a given problem formulation. The method is configured to provide feedback specifically for design decisions made sequentially, as is typical of the building design process. In this way, designers understand the life cycle impact implications of each decision and can easily modify decisions in a way that better aligns with their desired performance objectives. The proposed method's primary contributions to knowledge are the reduction of inputs required for life cycle assessment during the conceptual building design stage to only three inputs, the formalization of heuristics corresponding to the three inputs that approximate the life cycle impact of conceptual design decisions, the integration of heuristics with automation in a way that allows for rapid exploration of the full design space, and the sequential presentation of life cycle environmental impact and life cycle cost feedback on conceptual building design decisions.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Basbagill, John Paul |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department. |
| Primary advisor | Lepech, Michael |
| Thesis advisor | Lepech, Michael |
| Thesis advisor | Fischer, Martin, 1960 July 11- |
| Thesis advisor | Noble, Douglas, 1959- |
| Advisor | Fischer, Martin, 1960 July 11- |
| Advisor | Noble, Douglas, 1959- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | John Paul Basbagill. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2013. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by John Paul Basbagill
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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