Environmental Benefits of Timber-Concrete Prefabricated Construction System for Apartment Buildings – a Simplified Comparative LCA Study

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21720%2F19%3A00332028" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21720/19:00332028 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/290/1/012083" target="_blank" >https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/290/1/012083</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/290/1/012083" target="_blank" >10.1088/1755-1315/290/1/012083</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Environmental Benefits of Timber-Concrete Prefabricated Construction System for Apartment Buildings – a Simplified Comparative LCA Study

Original language description

The aim of a research project TiCo (Timber Concrete) is to create a standardized flexible construction system for multifamily apartment buildings for central European climatic conditions with low environmental impact. It exploits advantages of advanced prefabrication and favourable material properties of its main elements. Prefabricated structural system was designed using concrete frame with thin columns and lightweight ceilings with reinforcing core. Façades and interior partition walls were designed from prefabricated timber frame panels. The paper presents a simplified comparative LCA study of the designed TiCo building system and conventional building solutions. The compared variants had the same key parameters – load bearing capacity and heat transfer coefficients of building’s envelope. The analyses include loadbearing structures, façade, partition walls, foundations and roof. The others like HVAC systems, floors, doors, windows or tin work were not included. A simplified comparative LCA is based on procedure described in method SBToolCZ, which evaluates the quality of buildings in terms of sustainability. The assessment covered embodied environmental impacts of the construction system structures with their replacement based of their service lives. Prefabricated concrete frame structure with timber envelope was found environmentally friendlier compared to conventional solutions. The combination of the concrete load bearing structure and lightweight timber frame panels that benefits from favourable characteristics of both materials for the given purpose appropriately used in the construction appeared to be an efficient way of minimizing building's environmental impact.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20101 - Civil engineering

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

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

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

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

Article name in the collection

Central Europe towards Sustainable Building (CESB19)

ISBN

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ISSN

1755-1307

e-ISSN

1755-1315

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

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Publisher name

IOP Publishing Ltd

Place of publication

Bristol

Event location

Praha

Event date

Jul 2, 2019

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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