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Comparison of environmental assessment methods when reusing building components: a case study

Endrit Hoxha, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf

The building industry is responsible for 35% of all solid waste in Europe and more than a third of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To address this, applying circular economy principles to the building sector is crucial, for example by reusing building elem ...

2020

Database of Embodied Quantity Outputs: Lowering Material Impacts Through Engineering

Endrit Hoxha, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf

Current studies and performance labels focus mainly on the operational energy demand of buildings due to heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting, and hot water, but they rarely account for embodied impacts. Performing a life cycle assessment (LCA) on an en ...

2020

Assessing the gap between a normative and a reality-based model of building LCA

Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha, Stefano Cozza, Didier Albert Simon Vuarnoz

Recognized as a powerful methodology for the evaluation of environmental burdens, life cycle assessment (LCA) must be performed with close-to-reality inputs to be robust and accurate. However, the necessary real-world data is hardly available at the design ...

2020

Office densification effects on comfort, energy, and carbon lifecycle performance: An integrated and exploratory study

Cédric Liardet, Laurent Liardet, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha

Generally, the environmental impacts of buildings are benchmarked per square meter as a functional unit. However, this practice prevents developing a user-centered approach in which performance is linked to real usage and not building size. Currently, the ...

2020

Environmental impact assessment of Swiss residential archetypes: a comparison of construction and mobility scenarios

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha, Judith Elisa Drouilles

Environmental performance assessment of the built environment tends to focus mostly on operational final energy consumption of buildings located within a specific context. Such a limited scope prevents broader usability of findings in practice. In Switzerl ...

2019

Environmental Benefits when Reusing Load-Bearing Components in Office Buildings: A Case Study

Endrit Hoxha, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet

This case study applies life-cycle assessment methods to the preliminary design of an office building in order to quantify the benefits achieved when reusing its load-bearing components. Results show that the production of the load-bearing system would acc ...

2018

Smart Living Building Research Program - Executive Summary

Vanda Carla Costa Grisel, Emmanuel Rey, Marilyne Andersen, Cédric Liardet, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Arianna Brambilla, Endrit Hoxha, Stefano Cozza, Amélie Zizou Gisèle Renée Poncety, Didier Albert Simon Vuarnoz

The smart living lab project is a pioneering, inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional platform that combines several fields of research related to construction technologies. It aims to be a center of national scope, recognized on an international level ...

2017

On the necessity of improving the environmental impacts of furniture and appliances in net-zero energy buildings

Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha

There is now clear evidence regarding the extensive use of furniture and appliances in daily human life, but there is less evidence of their impact on the environment. Responding to this gap in knowledge, this study focuses on an assessment of the environm ...

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Structural Design with Reclaimed Materials: an Elastic Gridshell out of Skis

Endrit Hoxha, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Sofia Colabella

This paper presents the design and construction of a 36m2 gridshell, the rigidity of which is achieved through the bending of an initially flat grid of 210 reclaimed skis. The generated waste for its production is near zero as it is mostly built from disca ...

2017

Towards a pre-design method for low carbon architectural strategies

Emmanuel Rey, Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Arianna Brambilla, Endrit Hoxha, Stefano Cozza

To face climate change, Switzerland proposes the 2050 energy strategy by fixing greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets for the built environment. Designers will then have to increase operating performances while inimizing embodied impacts. This represents a ...

2016

LCA as key factor for implementation of inertia in a low carbon performance driven design: the case of the smart living building in Fribourg, Switzerland

Emmanuel Rey, Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Arianna Brambilla, Endrit Hoxha

The building sector is known as a major contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy consumption. These impacts are commonly evaluated by life cycle assessment (LCA), which assess the potential impacts of a building from the construction to the ...

2016

Building 2050 - Scientific concept and transition to the experimental phase

Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Arianna Brambilla, Yingying Jiang, Endrit Hoxha, Didier Albert Simon Vuarnoz

2016

Introduction of a dynamic interpretation of building LCA results: the case of the smart living (lab) building in Fribourg, Switzerland

Emmanuel Rey, Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha

Although a building lifetime is not predictable, it is an essential data in the yearly impact calculation. Yet, in the assessment of the environmental impacts of building the lifetime is considered as a fixed value. The purpose of this study is to introduc ...

2016

Building 2050 - State-of-the-arts and preliminary guidelines

Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Arianna Brambilla, Yingying Jiang, Endrit Hoxha, Didier Albert Simon Vuarnoz

2015