Hasik, Vaclav
(2019)
Advancing Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
Growing awareness about building-related resource consumption and vulnerability to natural hazards has resulted in the interest of designing more sustainable and resilient buildings. The building industry has seen an increased uptake of sustainable design practices, development of rating systems addressing building performance, and the use of life cycle assessment (LCA) and performance-based assessment tools; however, there is still a disconnect between these efforts which results in a limited understanding of the tradeoffs between various design decisions. The primary goal of this research is to improve understanding of building sustainability and resilience from a life cycle perspective by combining the knowledge from rating systems and performance-based tools within an expanded whole building LCA. The first step of this research is studying water related performance normally addressed by green building rating systems using life cycle assessment (LCA), specifically comparing environmental impacts of using centralized and decentralized water systems. The second step is understanding how natural hazards can impact the environmental performance of buildings over their lifetime by combining environmental LCA with performance-based earthquake engineering. The final step consists of synthesizing work done in the first two steps with the rest of the typical building LCA knowledge on operational and embodied impacts of buildings. The synthesis is used for a sensitivity analysis on design decisions typically considered during the conceptual phase, which can improve the understanding of the relative importance of the various building performance aspects.
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| Item Type: |
University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
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| Date: |
19 June 2019 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
22 March 2019 |
| Approval Date: |
19 June 2019 |
| Submission Date: |
18 February 2019 |
| Access Restriction: |
2 year -- Restrict access to University of Pittsburgh for a period of 2 years. |
| Number of Pages: |
210 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Swanson School of Engineering > Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Degree: |
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy |
| Thesis Type: |
Doctoral Dissertation |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Building design performance, life cycle assessment |
| Date Deposited: |
19 Jun 2019 12:52 |
| Last Modified: |
19 Jun 2021 05:15 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/35980 |
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