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http://dx.doi.org/10.6106/KJCEM.2015.16.3.049

Environmental Impacts Assessment of Elementary School Buildings and Establishment of the Reference Target using Life Cycle Assessment Model  

Ji, Changyoon (Department of Architectural Engineering, Yonsei UniversityDepartment of Architectural Engineering, Yonsei University)
Hong, Taehoon (Department of Architectural Engineering, Yonsei University)
Jeong, Jaewook (Department of Architectural Engineering, Yonsei UniversityDepartment of Architectural Engineering, Yonsei University)
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Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management / v.16, no.3, 2015 , pp. 49-58 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to determine how much a new green building reduce the environmental impacts, it is necessary to establish the reference target for comparison. Therefore, this study aims to establish the reference target by evaluating the environmental impacts of existing buildings. To ensure this end, this study evaluated the environmental impacts(Global warming potential, ozone layer depletion potential, acidification potential, eutrophication potential, photochemical ozone creation potential, and abiotic depletion potential) of 17 existing elementary school buildings, which are located in Seoul, Busan, Daegu, and Gwangju, by using the hybrid LCA model. As a result, the environmental impacts of the case buildings were clearly distinguished in different regions. Therefore, this study presented the reference targets which are appropriate to each region. For example, the reference targets for global warming potential, which can be used in Seoul, Busan, Daegu, and Gwangju, are 3.76E+03, 1.90E+03, 2.63E+03, $2.81E+03kg-CO_2\;eq./m^2$, respectively. The presented reference targets are expected to be useful for understanding how much environmental impacts can be reduced when a new green school building is constructed.
Keywords
Life Cycle Assessment; Elementary school building; Environmenatl impacts; Green building;
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