Analysis of lifetimes of building elements in the literature and in renovation practices and sensitivity analysis on building LCA & LCC
Lasvaux, Sébastien; Goulouti, Kyriaki; Favre, Didier; Giorgi, Morgane; Padey, Pierryves; Volland, Benjamin; Farsi, Medhi; Habert, Guillaume; Galimshina, Alina
2020

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In this study, the service lives of the building elements, an important parameter in renovations and LCA/LCC calculations, are analyzed, based on a comprehensive literature review and a survey of Swiss households. The literature review showed that there is no consensus about the service lives, among the different countries, while the results of the survey on the renovation timing of the building elements, showed on average an agreement between the element’s effective lifetime and the average from the literature data. In addition, based on the literature data, lognormal distributions were defined for the service life of the building elements and then the probabilistic LCA & LCC were calculated. The results showed that the uncertainty of 6 building elements’ service lives can significantly influence the reliability of the results. For the practitioners, the study confirms that the current practice of using service life data of the SIA 2032 technical books, for building LCA and LCC, constitutes a relative good estimation of the most probable value of the probabilistic LCA.

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Title Analysis of lifetimes of building elements in the literature and in renovation practices and sensitivity analysis on building LCA & LCC
Author(s) Lasvaux, Sébastien (School of Engineering and Management Vaud, HES-SO, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland)
Goulouti, Kyriaki (School of Engineering and Management Vaud, HES-SO, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland)
Favre, Didier (School of Management and Engineering Vaud HES-SO University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland)
Giorgi, Morgane (School of Management and Engineering Vaud HES-SO University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland)
Padey, Pierryves (School of Engineering and Management Vaud, HES-SO, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland)
Volland, Benjamin (University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
Farsi, Medhi (University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
Habert, Guillaume (ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland)
Galimshina, Alina (School of Management and Engineering Vaud HES-SO University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland)
Date 2020-09
Published in Proceedings of 21. Status-Seminar "Erneuern! Sanierungsstrategien für den Gebäudepark", 3-4 September 2020, Aarau, Switzerland
Publisher Aarau, Switzerland, 3-4 September 2020
Pagination pp. 90-103
Presented at 21. Status-Seminar, Aarau {5000}, Switzerland, 2020-09-03, 2020-09-04, 21ième séminaire sur l’état de la recherche
DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3900180
Paper type published full paper
Faculty Ingénierie et Architecture
School HEIG-VD
Institute iE - Institut des Energies
Note Cette publication a été rédigée par un membre de l’ancien institut IGT - Institut de Génie Thermique.
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