Session

I Sustainable Housing and Construction in Europe

I.S1 Building Assessments

Date: 24/09/2008
Time: 09:00 - 10:30
Location: Hall C

Target Audience: Industry (Companies), Science (Research + Development), Administration (Politics, Legislation)

Objectives:

innovative aspects of buildung assessment future directions and priorities to achieve a sustainable development

Format: Moderated presentation session
Language: English

Buildings are complex products and their users are complex individuals or institutions. The life cycle of a building covers the planning phase as well as construction, usage, change of occupants and demolition at the very end. Looking from the starting point to the end of a building including everything that happens in between, life cycle assessment and quality certificates gain in importance. The presentations of this session range from low energy certificates to carbon footprints of housing and quality management of buildings based on LCA.

Session Chair

Lechner, Robert
Austrian Institute of Ecology, Austria

Presentations

From the Energy Evaluation to the Assessment of the Sustainable Building Performance
Essig, Natalie
Institute of Building Physics, University of Technology, Munich, Germany
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Sustainable Construction with Concrete - Consolidating the Phases of Life Cycle in a Holistic Approach
Hauer, Bruno
German Cement Works Association, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Determining the Carbon Footprint from Housing and Associated Lifestyles in the UK – a Quantitative Approach Combining Geo-Demographic Marketing and Macro-Economic Data
Minx, Jan Christoph
Stockholm Environment Institute, Project Office Berlin, Germany

Certificate Trading Schemes for New Land Use
Ostertag, Katrin
Fraunhofer ISI, Germany
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