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Fig. 1
Description of building life cycle phases with EN 15978 nomenclature
buildings to minimize the environmental impact, they are still rarely used for
building assessment and in particular for refurbishment projects, perhaps because
of their relative complexity which makes them impractical for use by a design
team.
Finally, there are other recent tools such as ELODIE (CSTB
2012
) that provide
simplified interfaces that allow building environmental performance assessment
following a life cycle structure, or tools such as ENERBUILCA (
2012
), focusing
on life cycle energy performance, which can allow for a calculation following the
CEN TC 350 structure and life cycle perspective.
This chapter deals with the concepts of LCA in the context of refurbishing
buildings towards 'zero energy' and presents a simplified method for evaluation of
the life cycle energy performance, which consists of integrating results from the
energy performance evaluation at the use stage and the embodied energy of the
products added in a refurbishment project.
