Report on LCA

Life Cycle Assessment LCA will be undertaken using methodologies for energy related renovation and new builds It will focus only on the significant life cycle stages for energy related building ie the production transportation replacement and end of life of new materials for the thermal envelope and building integrated technical systems BITS and the operational energy demand LCA will include an outline of the impact categories selected for examination and the methodology for comparing the performance of each RE technology within the IDEAS system We will apply LCA to the building integrated IDEAS system against baseline electricity generation from fossil fuels as well as comparing with other combined RES systems currently on the market It will focus on for example significant life cycle stages for energy related building ie the production transportation replacement and end of life of new materials for the thermal envelope and building integrated technical systems BITS and the operational energy demand Further to this an LCA will be developed which will devise scenarios to incorporate circular economy CE improvements to the IDEAS system The rationale for applying the cradle to cradle system boundary conditions to capture the circular economy will also be presented along with addressing strategies to address CE improvements such as targeting hotspots in systems lifecycles This will be completed under task 74