Life cycle assessment with Prof. André Stephan

aus Library of Reuse · 04.03.2024 · 20 Min.

Beschreibung

Lifecycle assessments (LCAs) are necessary for understanding the environmental impacts of buildings. They’re needed to calculate the service life of all of the components and materials in a building, and how much embodied carbon is involved in producing them. André Stephan, professor of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning at the Université catholique de Louvain, researches how to scale up life cycle assessments so that they can be used to better understand the carbon footprint of the construction sector. In this podcast he talks with Catherine De Wolf, Professor of Circular Engineering for Architecture at ETH Zurich, about data, computational tools, the challenges of creating life cycle assessments for buildings made of reused materials in particular, and in what ways academia is responsible for reducing the environmental impact of construction.