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ddss9829 |
| authors |
De Hoog, J., Hendriks, N.A. and Rutten, P.G.S. |
| year |
1998 |
| title |
Evaluating Office Buildings with MOLCA(Model for Office Life Cycle Assessment) |
| source |
Timmermans, Harry (Ed.), Fourth Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning Maastricht, the Netherlands), ISBN 90-6814-081-7, July 26-29, 1998 |
| summary |
MOLCA (Model for Office Life Cycle Assessment) is a project that aims to develop a tool that enables designers and builders to evaluate the environmental impact of their designs (of office buildings) from a environmental point of view. The model used is based on guidelinesgiven by ISO 14000, using the so-called Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method. The MOLCA project started in 1997 and will be finished in 2001 resulting in the aforementioned tool. MOLCA is a module within broader research conducted at the Eindhoven University of Technology aiming to reduce design risks to a minimum in the early design stages.Since the MOLCA project started two major case-studies have been carried out. One into the difference in environmental load caused by using concrete and steel roof systems respectively and the role of recycling. The second study focused on biases in LCA data and how to handle them. For the simulations a computer-model named SimaPro was used, using the world-wide accepted method developed by CML (Centre for the Environment, Leiden, the Netherlands). With this model different life-cycle scenarios were studied and evaluated. Based on those two case studies and a third one into an office area, a first model has been developed.Bottle-neck in this field of study is estimating average recycling and re-use percentages of the total flow of material waste in the building sector and collecting reliable process data. Another problem within LCA studies is estimating the reliability of the input data and modelling uncertainties. All these topics will be subject of further analysis. |
| keywords |
Life-Cycle Assessment, Office Buildings, Uncertainties in LCA |
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DDSS |
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Hendriks, N.A. and de Hoog, J. (1998)
 The Importance of Recycling in Life Cycle Assessment of Roof Systems", Eindhoven University of Technology
, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, 1998, to be presented at the International Waterproofing Association Conference, June 10-12 1998, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Hendriks, N.A. and de Hoog, J. (1998)
The Importance of Recycling in Life Cycle Assessment of Roof Systems
, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, 1998, to be presented at the Steel in Green Building Conference,March 18-21 1998, Orlando, Florida (USA)
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Petersen, E.H. (1997)
Life-cycle assessment of building components - Handling uncertainty in LCA's
, Danish Building Research Institute (SBI), Horsholm, Denmark, 1997
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