Sustainability in the life cycle

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Sustainability in the life cycle

This area brings together the activities that aim to optimise the design and management of the built environment from a life-cycle perspective, through the application of and experimentation with criteria, methods and tools at different scales.

Maintaining the focus on the overall vision of the process, the activities carried out support all phases of the construction cycle, from decision-making or meta-design and design, to use and maintenance, to the decommissioning and potential reuse of the system and its parts.

Management of property assets from a life-cycle perspective

Consultancy and technical support relating to tools and methods for the management of property assets from a life-cycle perspective, such as manuals and maintenance plans.

Environmental policies

Research, consultancy and technical support relating to environmental policies such as: Sustainable Production and Consumption, Green Economy, Circular Economy, Green Public Procurement, Resource Efficiency.

Environmental certification of products and services

Research, consultancy and technical support relating to environmental certification tools such as Environmental Product Declaration, Carbon Footprint and Environmental Footprint.

Green Building Rating Systems

Research, consultancy and technical support relating to multi-criteria building evaluation/certification systems. Definition/adaptation of specific criteria within the green building rating systems for local settings. Development of dedicated systems on the basis of specific building needs and/or types.

Evaluation of sustainability in the life cycle

Consultancy and technical support relating to methods for evaluating sustainability in the life cycle, such as Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Costing and Social-LCA.

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