Case study regarding the environmental impact assessment of a thermal rehabilitation of a building

Abstract

Nowadays pollution became one of the biggest problems of humanity. The effects caused by the rising of global temperatures have a negative influence on ecological and social changes. In this paper the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions is presented. The analysis is aimed at quantifying the amount of CO2 from building heating, relative to the amount of emissions from the materials used in thermal rehabilitation, generated by producing and putting them into operation. The carbon footprint and energy consumption at each stage of the materials life cycle was determined using the OneClickLCA software.

Keywords

• energy efficiency
• global emissions
• sustainable development
• carbon footprint