Life-Cycle Assessment of a Rural Terraced House: A Struggle with Sustainability of Building Renovations

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26110%2F21%3APU140516" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26110/21:PU140516 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/9/2472/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/9/2472/htm</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14092472" target="_blank" >10.3390/en14092472</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Life-Cycle Assessment of a Rural Terraced House: A Struggle with Sustainability of Building Renovations

Original language description

Contemporary research stresses the need to reduce mankind’s environmental impacts and achieve sustainability. One of the keys to this is the construction sector. New buildings have to comply with strict limits regarding resource consumption (energy, water use, etc.). However, they make up only a fraction of the existing building stock. Renovations of existing buildings are therefore essential for the reduction of the environmental impacts in the construction sector. This paper illustrates the situation using a case study of a rural terraced house in a village near Brno, Czech Republic. It compares the life-cycle assessment (LCA) of the original house and its proposed renovation as well as demolition followed by new construction. The LCA covers both the initial embodied environmental impacts (EEIs) and the 60-year operation of the house with several variants of energy sources. The results show that the proposed renovation would reduce overall environmental impacts (OEIs) of the house by up to 90% and the demolition and new construction by up to 93% depending on the selected energy sources. As such, the results confirm the importance of renovations and the installation of environmentally-friendly energy sources for achieving sustainability in the construction sector. They also show the desirability of the replacement of inefficient old buildings by new construction in specific cases

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20101 - Civil engineering

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-20943S" target="_blank" >GA19-20943S: Compatibility of plastics and metals with latent heat storage media for integration in buildings</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

ENERGIES

ISSN

1996-1073

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

1-18

UT code for WoS article

000650147500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85106439059