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Eco-Bat: A design tool for assessing environmental impacts of buildings and equipment

Favre, Didier ; Citherlet, Stéphane

In: Building Simulation, 2008, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 83-94

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    Titel
    • Eco-Bat: A design tool for assessing environmental impacts of buildings and equipment
    Autor
    • Favre, Didier. Laboratory of Solar Energetics and Building Physics, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, CH-1401, Yverdon-Les-Bains, Switzerland
    • Citherlet, Stéphane. Laboratory of Solar Energetics and Building Physics, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, CH-1401, Yverdon-Les-Bains, Switzerland
    Dokumententyp
    • Postprint
    OAI-PMH-ID
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:314797
    Summary
    This paper presents the features of Eco-Bat, a computer program developed to assess the environmental impacts of buildings, including construction materials and energy consumed, during its life cycle. The methodology used to evaluate environmental impacts based on a life cycle assessment (LCA) approach, compatible with ISO 14040 standards, is detailed. The data are mainly extracted from an environmental impacts database, Ecoinvent, which contains values for the manufacturing and elimination of numerous materials as well as other processes. Two applications are presented to illustrate the possibilities offered by Eco-Bat. The first one is a comparison of different variants of building facades. The second example shows the analysis of a whole building including its energy consumption