Search Results - "Lasvaux, Sébastien"
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What is the optimal robust environmental and cost-effective solution for building renovation? Not the usual one
Published in Energy and buildings (15-11-2021)“…[Display omitted] •Heating system is the most crucial parameter for renovation.•Deep renovation is neither cost-effective nor climate-friendly considering…”
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Influence of construction material uncertainties on residential building LCA reliability
Published in Journal of cleaner production (15-02-2017)“…Life cycle assessment (LCA) is widely used to evaluate the environmental impacts of buildings, but due to uncertainties, the final results can be unreliable…”
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Uncertainty of building elements’ service lives in building LCA & LCC: What matters?
Published in Building and environment (01-10-2020)“…The existing methods of evaluating the environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costs (LCC) performance of a building concept have been widely…”
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Comparison of generic and product-specific Life Cycle Assessment databases: application to construction materials used in building LCA studies
Published in The international journal of life cycle assessment (01-11-2015)“…Purpose The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been applied in the construction sector since the 1990s and is now more and more embedded in European public…”
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Bio-based materials as a robust solution for building renovation: A case study
Published in Applied energy (15-06-2022)“…[Display omitted] •The integrated analysis of LCA and LCCA of building renovation is performed considering future uncertainties.•The robust optimal renovation…”
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Review of visualising LCA results in the design process of buildings
Published in Building and environment (01-03-2021)“…Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is increasingly used for decision-making in the design process of buildings and neighbourhoods. Therefore, visualisation of LCA…”
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Strategies for robust renovation of residential buildings in Switzerland
Published in Nature communications (12-03-2024)“…Building renovation is urgently required to reduce the environmental impact associated with the building stock. Typically, building renovation is performed by…”
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Methodological challenges and developments in LCA of low energy buildings: Application to biogenic carbon and global warming assessment
Published in Building and environment (01-08-2015)“…In Europe, low energy buildings become common for new constructions and life cycle assessment (LCA) is increasingly used to assess their environmental…”
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A review of urban metabolism studies to identify key methodological choices for future harmonization and implementation
Published in Journal of cleaner production (01-10-2017)“…The concept of urban metabolism has often been used to model and analyze urban regions to provide insights on their environmental sustainability. However, no…”
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Environmental datasets for cement and steel rebars to be used as generic for a national context
Published in Journal of cleaner production (20-09-2021)“…The selection of the most suitable Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) databases, and corresponding elementary processes, to be used in the modelling of raw materials…”
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Statistical method to identify robust building renovation choices for environmental and economic performance
Published in Building and environment (01-10-2020)“…Building renovation is urgently required to decrease the energy consumption of the existing building stock and reduce greenhouse gas emissions coming from the…”
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Environmental product declarations entering the building sector: critical reflections based on 5 to 10 years experience in different European countries
Published in The international journal of life cycle assessment (01-09-2015)“…PURPOSE: Growing awareness of the environmental performance of construction products and buildings brings about the need for a suitable method to assess their…”
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Primary data priorities for the life cycle inventory of construction products: focus on foreground processes
Published in The international journal of life cycle assessment (01-06-2020)“…Purpose Life cycle assessment can support decisions for improving the environmental performance of construction products. However, the amount of data required…”
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Towards guidance values for the environmental performance of buildings: application to the statistical analysis of 40 low-energy single family houses’ LCA in France
Published in The international journal of life cycle assessment (01-05-2017)“…Purpose In this study, life cycle assessment (LCA) is applied to a sample of 40 low-energy individual houses for the French context in order to identify…”
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Understanding the Reasons behind the Energy Performance Gap of an Energy-Efficient Building, through a Probabilistic Approach and On-Site Measurements
Published in Energies (Basel) (01-10-2021)“…The performance gap, defined as the difference between the measured and the calculated performance of energy-efficient buildings, has long been identified as a…”
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Environmental savings from concrete reuse: examining the limitations and optimal practices for cutting thresholds of concrete building components for reuse
Published in Environmental research, infrastructure and sustainability : ERIS (01-09-2024)“…Abstract Concrete, a widely used construction material, presents both opportunities and challenges for promoting environmentally responsible practices. This…”
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EcoDynElec: Open Python package to create historical profiles of environmental impacts from regional electricity mixes
Published in SoftwareX (01-07-2023)“…This article presents the EcoDynElec python package that creates temporal historical profiles of various potential environmental impacts for electricity mixes…”
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Investigating transparency regarding ecoinvent users’ system model choices
Published in The international journal of life cycle assessment (01-01-2019)“…Purpose Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a data-intensive methodology; therefore, experts usually focus collection efforts on a few activities, while generic…”
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NativeLCA - a systematic approach for the selection of environmental datasets as generic data: application to construction products in a national context
Published in The international journal of life cycle assessment (01-06-2015)“…Purpose The aim of this paper is to propose guidelines for the selection of an accurate life cycle assessment (LCA) dataset of building products to be used as…”
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Dataset of service life data for 100 building elements and technical systems including their descriptive statistics and fitting to lognormal distribution
Published in Data in brief (01-06-2021)“…This article presents the descriptive statistics of service life data of building elements, gathered through an international, European and Swiss literature…”
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