Enabling dynamic life cycle assessment of buildings with wireless sensor networks

Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, ISSST 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Collinge, William O ^a   Liao, Liang ^a   Xu, Haifeng ^a   Saunders, Christi L ^a   Bilec, Melissa M ^a   Landis, Amy E ^a   Jones, Alex K ^a   Schaefer, Laura A ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic Life Cycle Assessment; Green Building; Life Cycle Assessment; Sensor Network

Indexed keywords

BUILDING EFFECTS; BUILDING SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC LCA; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; EXTERNAL CONDITIONS; GREEN BUILDINGS; IN-BUILDINGS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; OPERATING LIFETIME; PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS; SENSOR APPLICATIONS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; USE PHASE;

BUILDINGS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ENERGY RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RATING; SENSORS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 79960740668     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSST.2011.5936846     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (33)

1. Environmental Management - Life cycle assessment - Requirements and guidelines.International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO 14044:2006.
2. B.W. Vigon et al,. Life-Cycle Assessment: Inventory Guidelines and Principles. Cincinatti : US Environmental Protection Agency, Battelle and Franklin Associates Ltd., 1992. EPA 600-R92-036.
3. J.A. Fava et al., A Technical Framework for Life-Cycle Assessment. Washington, DC : SETAC and SETAC Foundation for Environmental Education, 1991.
4. Life Cycle Approaches: The road from analysis to practice. United Nations Environment Program and Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Paris : UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, 2005.
5. C. Scheuer, G. Keoelian, "Life cycle energy and environmental performance of a new university building: modeling challenges and design implications," Energy and Buildings, vol. 35, pp. 1049-1064, 2003.
6. S. Junila, A. Horvath and A.A. Guggemos, "Life-Cycle Assessment of Office Buildings in Europe and the United States," Journal of Infrastructure Systems, vol. 12, pp. 10-17, 2006. (Pubitemid 43273536)
7. J. Reap et al., "A survey of unresolved problems in life cycle assessment - Part 2: Impact assessment and interpretation," International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, vol. 13, pp. 374-388, 2008.
8. A. Levasseur et al., "Considering time in LCA: Dynamic LCA and its application to global warming impact assessment," Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 44, pp. 3169-3174, 2010.
9. C. Davis, Integration of Life Cycle Analysis within Agent Based Modeling using a Case Study on Bio-Electricity, Delft : Delft University of Technology, 2007.
10. J. Reap et al., "Integrated Ecosystem Landscape and Industrial Modeling for Strategic Environmentally Conscious Process Technology Selection," 13th CIRP International Conference on Life cycle Engineering, pp. 213-218, 2006.
11. B. Ness et al., "Categorising tools for sustainability assessment," Ecological Economics, vol. 60, pp. 498-508, 2007. (Pubitemid 46016987)
12. Introduction to LEED, US Green Building Council, [Online]. Available: http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=1988.
13. 2009 ASHRAE Handbook - Fundamentals (SI Edition). American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). Atlanta, GA, 2009.
14. B.C. Lippiatt, BEES 4.0: Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability technical manual and guide. National Institute of Standards and Technology. NIST Interagency Report 7423.
15. S. Hellweg et al., "Integrating Human Indoor Air Pollutant Exposure within Life Cycle Impact Assessment," Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 43, 2009.
16. V.P. Shah aad R.J. Ries. "A Characterization Model with Spatial and Temporal Resolution for Life Cycle Impact Assessment of Photochemical Precursors in the United States," International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, vol. 14, pp. 313-327, 2009.
17. International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol - Volume II: Concepts and Practices for Improved Indoor Environmental Quality, International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol Committee, US Department of Energy, 2001, DOE/GO-102001-1188.
18. Indoor Air Quality Web Site, US Environmental Protection Agency, [Online] Available: http://www.epa.gov/iaq/index.html.
19. W.J. Fisk, "How IEQ Affects Health, Productivity," ASHRAE Journal, May 2002.
20. A. Singh et al., "Effects of green buildings on employee health and productivity," American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 100, 2010.
21. W.J. Fisk, A.G. Mirer and M.J. Mendell, "Quantitative relationship of sick building syndrome symptoms with ventilation rates," Indoor Air, vol. 19, pp. 159-165, 2009.
22. P. Seppanen, W. Fisk and Q.H. Lei, "Ventilation and performance in office work," Indoor Air, vol. 16, pp. 28-36, 2006.
23. G.P. Sharp, "Demand based control of lab air change rates,"ASHRAE Journal, February 2010.
24. R. Heijungs and S. Suh. The Computational Structure of Life Cycle Assessment. Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
25. C.L. Mutel and S. Hellweg, "Regionalized Life Cycle Assessment: Computational Methodology and Application to Inventory Databases," Environmental Science and Technology, 2009.
26. R. Rosenbaum et al., "USETox - the UNEP-SETAC toxocity model: recommended characterisation factors for human toxicity and freshwater ecotoxicity in life cycle impact assessment," International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, vol. 13, pp. 532-546, 2008.
27. J. Bare et al., "TRACI: The Tool for the Reduction and Assessment of Chemical and Other Environmental Impacts," Journal of Industrial Ecology, vol. 6, pp. 49-78, 2003. (Pubitemid 36720283)
28. James Hirsch and Associates, The eQUEST Quick Energy Simulation Model, version 3.64, [Online]. Available: http://doe2.com/equest/.
29. GREET Model: The Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation Model, version 1.8d.1, US DOE, Argonne National Laboratory, [Online]. Available: http://greet.es.anl.gov/
30. Electric Power Annual 2009 - State Data Tables, USDOE, Energy Information Administration, [Online]. Available: http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/ epa/epa-sprdshts.html.
31. U.S. Life Cycle Inventory Database, US DOE, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, [Online]. Available: http://www.nrel.gov/lci/.
32. Annual Energy Outlook 2010, Main Reference Case Tables, US DOE, Energy Information Administration, 2010, DOE/EIA-0383(2010).
33. C.L. Weber et al., "Life cycle assessment and grid electricity: What do we know and what can we know?" Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 44, pp. 1895-1901, 2010.