ASSESSING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF BUILDING DESIGN ON USING LIFE CYCLE ENERGY ANALYSIS SOFTWARE TOOL
Sustainable construction often refers to construction activities whose negative impacts are minimised and positive impact maximised so as to achieve a balance in terms of energy, environmental, economic and social performances. Such activities may include construction of new buildings, refurbishment of existing buildings; restoration of historical buildings; use of non-depletable and recycled materials; reduction of construction and demolition waste; reduction of energy use; and provision of healthy, safe and pleasant built facilities. In 2005, EMSD completed a study on Life Cycle Energy Analysis (LCEA) and developed a user-friendly software tool to assess the sustainability of building construction. Efforts among ArchSD and EMSD were then collaborated in latter half of 2005 to conduct a trial use of the LCEA software tool in quantitative life cycle assessment on the energy use, cost and environmental impacts of two completed building projects namely, a municipal facility and a state-of-the-art office building. The result showed that the material database was generally sufficient to model the two trial building projects of different architectural design whereas a comprehensive output was also provided for designers to identify design improvements.
NEVIN LAM WELMAN LEUNG TAM WING KEUNG
Architectural Services Department, Hong Kong, China Electrical and Mechanical Services Department Hong Kong, China Engineer, Electrical and Mechanical Services Department Hong Kong, China
国际会议
广州
英文
383-390
2006-12-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）