Life Cycle Assessment Impact Indicators for Simulation-Based Optimization of Buildings

Abstract

The themes related to the enhancement of sustainability in the built environment have been gaining increasing concerns by the scientific community, other than by governments. Accordingly, there is a need for the availability of tools that can help scientists and policy makers in choosing the most appropriate intervention measures that simultaneously take into account environmental as well as energy and economic aspects. To this purpose, a literature review of scientific articles dealing with the optimization of the performance of buildings, making use of LCA, energy and economic analyses was conducted. The results of this earlier step of research (which would serve as the basis for future developments) are aimed at singling out a small set of indicators to be used in a multi-objective optimization methodology for the enhancement of buildings sustainability.