TY - JOUR
T1 - Survey results on acceptance and use of Life Cycle Assessment among designers in world regions: IEA EBC Annex 72
AU - Balouktsi, M
AU - Lützkendorf, T
AU - Röck, M
AU - Passer, A
AU - Reisinger, T
AU - Frischknecht, R
PY - 2020/11/20
Y1 - 2020/11/20
N2 - Design practitioners’ knowledge about Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is crucial for the necessary decarbonisation of the built environment as well as the mitigation of other negative environmental impacts. Designers’ attitudes towards LCA have so far been rarely analysed. In 2019, as part of the project IEA EBC Annex 72 “Assessing life cycle related environmental impacts caused by buildings”, a global survey was conducted amongst design professionals within 23 countries. The aim was to investigate the level of awareness and acceptance of environmental performance assessment and LCA of buildings, the use of related information sources and tools as well as the application of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in connection to LCA. The results show that less than one third of designers currently provides or uses LCA services. The ones who do not are mainly constrained by the lack of client demand. To support an increased use of LCA during building design, not only it is necessary to provide related data and design/assessment tools, but also to establish standards/regulations to drive client demand. It is particularly relevant to include such requirements already in the client’s brief. In future, an increased demand for building LCA results by institutional investors is expected.
AB - Design practitioners’ knowledge about Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is crucial for the necessary decarbonisation of the built environment as well as the mitigation of other negative environmental impacts. Designers’ attitudes towards LCA have so far been rarely analysed. In 2019, as part of the project IEA EBC Annex 72 “Assessing life cycle related environmental impacts caused by buildings”, a global survey was conducted amongst design professionals within 23 countries. The aim was to investigate the level of awareness and acceptance of environmental performance assessment and LCA of buildings, the use of related information sources and tools as well as the application of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in connection to LCA. The results show that less than one third of designers currently provides or uses LCA services. The ones who do not are mainly constrained by the lack of client demand. To support an increased use of LCA during building design, not only it is necessary to provide related data and design/assessment tools, but also to establish standards/regulations to drive client demand. It is particularly relevant to include such requirements already in the client’s brief. In future, an increased demand for building LCA results by institutional investors is expected.
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U2 - 10.1088/1755-1315/588/3/032023
DO - 10.1088/1755-1315/588/3/032023
M3 - Conference article
SN - 1755-1307
VL - 588
JO - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
JF - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
IS - 3
M1 - 032023
T2 - World Sustainable Built Environment - Beyond 2020
Y2 - 2 November 2020 through 4 November 2020
ER -