Life-Cycle Assessment of a Rural Terraced House: A Struggle with Sustainability of Building Renovations

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dc.contributor.authorStruhala, Karelcs
dc.contributor.authorOstrĂ˝, Milancs
dc.coverage.issue9cs
dc.coverage.volume14cs
dc.date.issued2021-04-26cs
dc.description.abstractContemporary research stresses the need to reduce mankind’s environmental impacts and achieve sustainability. One of the keys to this is the construction sector. New buildings have to comply with strict limits regarding resource consumption (energy, water use, etc.). However, they make up only a fraction of the existing building stock. Renovations of existing buildings are therefore essential for the reduction of the environmental impacts in the construction sector. This paper illustrates the situation using a case study of a rural terraced house in a village near Brno, Czech Republic. It compares the life-cycle assessment (LCA) of the original house and its proposed renovation as well as demolition followed by new construction. The LCA covers both the initial embodied environmental impacts (EEIs) and the 60-year operation of the house with several variants of energy sources. The results show that the proposed renovation would reduce overall environmental impacts (OEIs) of the house by up to 90% and the demolition and new construction by up to 93% depending on the selected energy sources. As such, the results confirm the importance of renovations and the installation of environmentally-friendly energy sources for achieving sustainability in the construction sector. They also show the desirability of the replacement of inefficient old buildings by new construction in specific casesen
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dc.identifier.citationENERGIES. 2021, vol. 14, issue 9, p. 1-18.en
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/en14092472cs
dc.identifier.issn1996-1073cs
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0003-1076-3450cs
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0002-6712-912Xcs
dc.identifier.other171014cs
dc.identifier.researcheridA-2660-2016cs
dc.identifier.scopus55597153500cs
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11012/196759
dc.language.isoencs
dc.publisherMDPIcs
dc.relation.ispartofENERGIEScs
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dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalcs
dc.rights.accessopenAccesscs
dc.rights.sherpahttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1996-1073/cs
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/cs
dc.subjectBuilding renovation; environmental impacts; energy efficiencyen
dc.subjectenergy sourcesen
dc.subjectLife-Cycle Assessmenten
dc.subjectsustainable constructionen
dc.titleLife-Cycle Assessment of a Rural Terraced House: A Struggle with Sustainability of Building Renovationsen
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dc.type.statusPeer-revieweden
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sync.item.insts2025.02.03 15:44:53en
sync.item.modts2025.01.17 18:47:39en
thesis.grantorVysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební. Ústav pozemního stavitelstvícs
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