TY - GEN
T1 - TAKTING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES
T2 - 29th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, IGLC 2021
AU - Slosharek, Benjamin
AU - Dlouhy, Janosch
AU - Schneider-Marin, Patricia
AU - Lang, Werner
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Prof. Luis F. Alarcón and Assoc. Prof. Vicente González, IGL2021 All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The building sector is key to achieving global sustainability targets due to its significant resource consumption, associated emissions, and waste generation. Life cycle assessment (LCA) evaluates the environmental quality of buildings to identify improvement possibilities. However, current research activities limit their focus on a few life cycle phases, while the construction phase receives none to little attention. At the heart of the problem lies the lack of information about on-site processes and the lack of tools to evaluate the environmental quality of construction processes. The authors developed a conceptual framework to assess this aspect using an interdisciplinary approach. The proposed solution is based on two main methods, namely LCA and Takt Planning (TP). Based on literature research we identified the main categories for environmentally relevant in- and outputs of construction processes. This allows a structured, standardized, and scalable assessment of each single process step from an environmental perspective We anticipate this method to be a starting point for a holistic sustainability approach for construction process assessment. Further development of this framework aims to broaden the current environmental evaluation in the building sector and to improve both, the construction process and the building product from an environmental point of view.
AB - The building sector is key to achieving global sustainability targets due to its significant resource consumption, associated emissions, and waste generation. Life cycle assessment (LCA) evaluates the environmental quality of buildings to identify improvement possibilities. However, current research activities limit their focus on a few life cycle phases, while the construction phase receives none to little attention. At the heart of the problem lies the lack of information about on-site processes and the lack of tools to evaluate the environmental quality of construction processes. The authors developed a conceptual framework to assess this aspect using an interdisciplinary approach. The proposed solution is based on two main methods, namely LCA and Takt Planning (TP). Based on literature research we identified the main categories for environmentally relevant in- and outputs of construction processes. This allows a structured, standardized, and scalable assessment of each single process step from an environmental perspective We anticipate this method to be a starting point for a holistic sustainability approach for construction process assessment. Further development of this framework aims to broaden the current environmental evaluation in the building sector and to improve both, the construction process and the building product from an environmental point of view.
KW - Sustainability
KW - lean construction (LC)
KW - life cycle assessment (LCA)
KW - process
KW - takt planning (TP)
KW - theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85126209244&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.24928/2021/0198
DO - 10.24928/2021/0198
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85126209244
T3 - IGLC 2021 - 29th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction - Lean Construction in Crisis Times: Responding to the Post-Pandemic AEC Industry Challenges
SP - 903
EP - 912
BT - IGLC 2021 - 29th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction - Lean Construction in Crisis Times
A2 - Alarcon, Luis Fernando
A2 - Gonzalez, Vicente A.
A2 - Murguia, Danny
A2 - Brioso, Xavier
PB - Department of Engineering, Civil Engineering Division, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
Y2 - 14 July 2021 through 17 July 2021
ER -
