Environmental Improvement Potential of Residential Buildings
This report on ¿Environmental improvement potential of residential buildings¿ is a JRC's scientific contribution to the European Commission¿s Integrated Product Policy framework which seeks to minimise the environmental degradation caused the life cycle of products. A previous study coordinated by the JRC (EIPRO study) had shown that building occupancy and structure all together make up 20 to 35% of the impacts of all products for most impact categories.
This report presents a systematic overview of the environmental life cycle impacts of residential buildings in EU-25. It also provides an analysis of the technical improvement options that could be help reducing these environmental impacts, with a special focus to their main source, namely energy use for space heating. The report assesses the environmental benefits and the costs associated with these improvement options.
NEMRY Francoise;
UIHLEIN Andreas;
2008-09-23
OPOCE
JRC46667
978-92-79-09767-6,
1018-5593,
EUR 23493 EN,
OP LF-NA-23493-EN-C,
http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=1744,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC46667,
10.2791/38942,
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