TY - GEN
T1 - Life-cycle assessment of the energy code for office buildings using the prescriptive approach in Israel
AU - Pushkar, S.
AU - Verbitsky, O.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The energy code for office buildings (Israel Standard 5282 [SI5282]) has five levels of certification for buildings, which are E (the lowest), D, C, B, and A (the highest). These five modular improvements (which involved changing the thermal conductivity and the mass of external walls, the type of glass, and the glazed area, as well as the use of shading) were modeled for each of the five levels of certification. The ReCiPe life-cycle impact assessment method was used to evaluate the life cycle assessment (LCA) differences among the different levels of building certification. Both the natural gas and photovoltaic (PV) energy production for supplying the operational energy needs of buildings were studied. It was found that the five levels of building certification exhibit no LCA differences when natural gas is used, whereas level C is the best choice when PV energy is used.
AB - The energy code for office buildings (Israel Standard 5282 [SI5282]) has five levels of certification for buildings, which are E (the lowest), D, C, B, and A (the highest). These five modular improvements (which involved changing the thermal conductivity and the mass of external walls, the type of glass, and the glazed area, as well as the use of shading) were modeled for each of the five levels of certification. The ReCiPe life-cycle impact assessment method was used to evaluate the life cycle assessment (LCA) differences among the different levels of building certification. Both the natural gas and photovoltaic (PV) energy production for supplying the operational energy needs of buildings were studied. It was found that the five levels of building certification exhibit no LCA differences when natural gas is used, whereas level C is the best choice when PV energy is used.
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U2 - 10.1061/9780784481196.019
DO - 10.1061/9780784481196.019
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AN - SCOPUS:85035200085
T3 - International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2017: Methodology - Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2017
SP - 207
EP - 218
BT - International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2017
A2 - Soibelman, Lucio
A2 - Pena-Mora, Feniosky
PB - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
T2 - 2017 International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure: Methodology, ICSI 2017
Y2 - 26 October 2017 through 28 October 2017
ER -