Civil Engineering Reference
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Built Environment Life Cycle Process
and Climate Change
Art ¯ ras Kaklauskas, Fernando Pacheco Torgal, Stelios Grafakos
and Vilune Lapinskiene
Abstract In order to design and realise an efficient built environment life cycle
with focus on climate change mitigation and adaptation, it is necessary to carry out
exhaustive investigations of all the decision and processes that form it. The effi-
ciency level of the considered built environment life cycle depends on a great
many micro, meso and macro factors. The authors of this paper participated in the
different EU projects related with built environment and climate change [Linking
European, Africa and Asian Academic Networks on Climate Change (LEAN CC),
etc.]. One of the LEAN CC project's goals was to develop a Model and Intelligent
System of Built Environment Life Cycle Process for Climate Change Mitigation
and Adaptation. The presented Model and Intelligent System enables one to form
up to 100 million alternative versions. Intelligent system allows one to determine
the strongest and weakest points of each project and its constituent parts. In order
to demonstrate the micro, meso and macro factors that influence the efficiency of
the built environment in climate change mitigation and adaptation processes, the
Model and Intelligent System will be considered as an example.
