Journal article
Net-zero buildings: Incorporating embodied impacts
T Lützkendorf, G Foliente, M Balouktsi, AH Wiberg
Building Research and Information | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | Published : 2015
Abstract
The design and assessment of net-zero buildings commonly focus exclusively on the operational phase, ignoring the embodied environmental impacts over the building life cycle. An analysis is presented on the consequences of integrating embodied impacts into the assessment of the environmental advantageousness of net-zero concepts. Fundamental issues needing consideration in the design process - based on the evaluation of primary energy use and related greenhouse gas emissions - are examined by comparing three net-zero building design and assessment cases: (1) no embodied impacts included, net balance limited to the operation stage only; (2) embodied impacts included but evaluated separately f..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The first author is grateful to the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (Bundesministerium fur Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi)) [grant number 03ET1035B] for funding the development of the methodological part of the paper as well as to Project Management Julich (Projekttrager Julich) for the support. All the authors gratefully acknowledge the support from the Norwegian Research Centre on Zero Emission Buildings partners and the Research Council of Norway for the NZB project case study work.