Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of building materials for the evaluation of building sustainability: the case of thermal insulation materials

Abstract At present, architects and engineers design in such a way that their projects comply with the local regulations of the place where they are working. However these local rules are not enough to achieve the sustainability objectives set by the European Union for 2020. The selection of one bui...

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Autores principales:	Carabaño,Rocío, Hernando,Susana Mª, Ruiz,Diego, Bedoya,César
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Escuela de Construcción Civil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 2017
Materias:	Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) building sustainability thermal insulation materials
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-915X20170001000222017-07-10Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of building materials for the evaluation of building sustainability: the case of thermal insulation materialsCarabaño,RocíoHernando,Susana MªRuiz,DiegoBedoya,César Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) building sustainability thermal insulation materials Abstract At present, architects and engineers design in such a way that their projects comply with the local regulations of the place where they are working. However these local rules are not enough to achieve the sustainability objectives set by the European Union for 2020. The selection of one building material or another will establish, in part, the building's global environmental impact. For this reason it is increasingly necessary to characterize, on an environmental level, building materials, in order to be able to prescribe the most suitable material to incorporate to architectural projects. Taking into account that thermal insulation materials are one of the key elements in construction, since they help the building's energy saving, the environmental impact of extruded polystyrene, glass wool and cork are assessed in this article in a comparative manner, by the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) methodology. In conclusion, according to the results obtained, there is not one best product, environmentally speaking, for all the impact categories analyzed. The choice of a material or another must be done adopting a solution of global commitment, cork being the best material out of the ones selected.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessEscuela de Construcción Civil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileRevista de la construcción v.16 n.1 20172017-04-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-915X2017000100022en10.7764/RDLC.16.1.22
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spellingShingle	Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) building sustainability thermal insulation materials Carabaño,Rocío Hernando,Susana Mª Ruiz,Diego Bedoya,César Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of building materials for the evaluation of building sustainability: the case of thermal insulation materials
description	Abstract At present, architects and engineers design in such a way that their projects comply with the local regulations of the place where they are working. However these local rules are not enough to achieve the sustainability objectives set by the European Union for 2020. The selection of one building material or another will establish, in part, the building's global environmental impact. For this reason it is increasingly necessary to characterize, on an environmental level, building materials, in order to be able to prescribe the most suitable material to incorporate to architectural projects. Taking into account that thermal insulation materials are one of the key elements in construction, since they help the building's energy saving, the environmental impact of extruded polystyrene, glass wool and cork are assessed in this article in a comparative manner, by the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) methodology. In conclusion, according to the results obtained, there is not one best product, environmentally speaking, for all the impact categories analyzed. The choice of a material or another must be done adopting a solution of global commitment, cork being the best material out of the ones selected.
author	Carabaño,Rocío Hernando,Susana Mª Ruiz,Diego Bedoya,César
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title	Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of building materials for the evaluation of building sustainability: the case of thermal insulation materials
title_short	Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of building materials for the evaluation of building sustainability: the case of thermal insulation materials
title_full	Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of building materials for the evaluation of building sustainability: the case of thermal insulation materials
title_fullStr	Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of building materials for the evaluation of building sustainability: the case of thermal insulation materials
title_full_unstemmed	Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of building materials for the evaluation of building sustainability: the case of thermal insulation materials
title_sort	life cycle assessment (lca) of building materials for the evaluation of building sustainability: the case of thermal insulation materials
publisher	Escuela de Construcción Civil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
publishDate	2017
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of building materials for the evaluation of building sustainability: the case of thermal insulation materials

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