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IEA EBC Annex 57: Evaluation of the design-specific CO2 emissions and the gray energy

The IEA-EBC Annex 57 evaluated methods of construction-related embodied environmental impacts and embodied energy and related international best practice projects and their approaches. Based on these findings, methodological guidelines as well as measures for their application at the international level and for the planning of buildings - with lower embodied energy and embodied greenhouse gas emissions - were derived.

Short Description

In addition to participation in the international and national meetings, the Austrian cooperation focused on the content of the work packages 2 to 5:

  • Content collaboration:
    - Literature Evaluation / State of Research - Subtask 2
    - Evaluation Methods - Subtask 3
    - Case Studies - Subtask 4
    - Reports and Dissemination - Subtask 5
  • Networking and dissemination activities

As part of this work, national assessment methods, case studies and know-how were incorporated into the international cooperation project. An essential part was the international dissemination of national demonstration building projects from the House of the Future Plus Technology Program (for example, plus energy renovation Kapfenberg, Energy City Graz Reininghaus, and many more), Furthermore, these demonstration building projects were presented in the context of dissemination measures to the international trade audience.

Due to the expansion of the content of the international cooperation project, Austria based its existing expertise on the preparation of a guideline for manufacturers of construction products (Guideline for Construction Products Manufacturers: Guidance to include Embodied Energy & Embodied GHG Emissions in the decision-making process for SME's.

All Austrian results were disseminated as part of the participation in the joint, international annex dissemination and preparation of the international publication. The know-how gained and the findings from the current international cooperation project were distributed to target groups in Austria.

Data collection & supply in the supply chain of a construction product. The supply chain is subdivided into upstream, internal and downstream processes
Modular structure and components of an LCA. (PASSER, ALEXANDER: On the operationalization of sustainability in construction: with particular emphasis on the sustainability assessment of construction products and buildings. Graz, Graz University of Technology, Austria (2016))
Data collection & supply in the supply chain of a construction product. The supply chain is subdivided into upstream, internal and downstream processes
Data collection & supply in the supply chain of a construction product. The supply chain is subdivided into upstream, internal and downstream processes (PASSER, ALEXANDER; BALOUKTSI, MARIA; LÜTZKENDORF, THOMAS; KREINER, HELMUTH: IEA EBC ANNEX 57 - Guideline for Construction Products Manufacturers. Graz, 2017 — ISBN 978-4-909107-03-9)

This work by IEA EBC Annex 57 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Participants

Australia, Brazil, China,  Denmark, Germany, England, Finland, France, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Portugal, Sweden, Spain, Czech Republic, USA

Contact Address

Graz University of Technology
Working Group Sustainability Assessment of the Institute of
Technology and Testing of Building Materials
Ass.Prof. DI Dr.techn. Alexander Passer, MSc.
Inffeldgasse 24
A-8010 Graz
E-Mail: Alexander.Passer@tugraz.at
Web: www.agnhb.tugraz.at

Projektmitarbeiter

  • Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Helmuth Kreiner, Dipl.-Ing. Martin Röck, Dipl.-Ing. Marco Scherz, Dipl.-Ing. Gernot Fischer
    Graz University of Technology, Working Group Sustainability Assessment of the Institute of Technology and Testing of Building Materials
  • Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Beate Lubitz Prohaska
    Österreichisches Ökologie-Institut