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How can LCA inform early-stage design to meet Danish regulations? The sustainability opportunity metric

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The National Strategy for Sustainable Construction in Denmark (in 2021) has agreed to include new requirements in which the building environmental impact calculation will become mandatory. We present a general decision-support system framework that delivers LCA information on highly uncertain early-stage designs, aimed at architects and architect engineers. Our key contribution is that we define a new sustainability opportunity metric assigned to early-design BIM model components. Our metric identifies sustainability opportunity “hot spots” (opportunities and risks) based on rapidly envisioning and qualitatively evaluating tens to hundreds of “what if ” scenarios that account for early-stage design uncertainty. A prototype demonstrates two visualizations of our metric on two BIM models.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationeWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction - Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Product and Process Modelling, ECPPM 2022 : Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Product and Process Modelling (ECPPM 2022), September 14-16, 2022, Trondheim, Norway.
EditorsEilif Hjelseth, Sujesh F. Sujan, Raimar J Scherer
Number of pages8
Volume1
Place of publicationLondon
PublisherCRC Press
Publication year29 Mar 2023
Pages27-34
ISBN (Electronic)9781003354222
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Mar 2023
EventEUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PRODUCT AND PROCESS MODELING 2022 - Scandic Lerkendal Hotel , Trondheim, Norway
Duration: 14 Sept 202216 Sept 2022
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Conference

ConferenceEUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PRODUCT AND PROCESS MODELING 2022
LocationScandic Lerkendal Hotel
LandNorway
ByTrondheim
Periode14/09/202216/09/2022
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