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Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) for Eco-Design in a Wastewater Reuse Facility (친환경 설계를 위한 하수처리수 재이용시설의 전과정 평가)

  • Lee, Sin-Won;Kim, Sung-Keun
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.31 no.2D
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    • pp.255-266
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    • 2011
  • In order to evaluate the environmental load occurring from the whole life cycle of a facility, LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) adopted by ISO is not only applied as an individual product but rather a complicated system involving buildings and/or infrastructure in a wide range of scope. The introducing of LCA to a wastewater reuse facility will assist to understand not only the treatment of water contaminants but also the overall system related to the interaction of involved, potential issues. This research implemented LCA for the establishment of the wastewater reuse facility. The results show that a fresh water aquatic Eco-toxicological Impact (88.3%) is the largest environment concern and the maintenance & operation phase has the most impact on the environment utilizing life cycle for the wastewater reuse facility. The civil works and chemical treatments in the maintenance & operation phase led to the biggest environmental impact. The results of this research can provide pertinent data of investigating opportunities for environmental improvement not limited to public officers regulating environmental policies, and could be used to make decisions for an environmentally sound and sustainable design in the initial phase of construction.

The Effect of Eco-friendly Characteristics on the Price of Office Buildings (친환경 특성이 오피스 빌딩 가격에 미치는 영향)

  • So, Soung Kue;Cho, Joo Hyun
    • Korea Real Estate Review
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.49-64
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of eco-friendly building certification grade on the price and cost of office in Seoul office building. For this purpose, multiple regression analysis is used to examine the prices of buildings. In order to identify the effect of environmental cost reduction of buildings with high eco-friendly certification, we also performed LCC (Life Cycle Cost) + LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) analysis. Results of our analysis show that office buildings with a higher level of eco-friendly certification are priced significantly higher. Through LCC analysis, it was also found that buildings with high levels of eco-friendly certification cost less than those with lower-level certification. Furthermore, it was confirmed that office buildings with higher-level environmental certification have total lower environmental load costs (TCA = LCC+LCA) than buildings without certification. According to the TCA analysis, buildings with a high level eco-certification generated lower social costs than buildings with lower-level or no certification.

건축설비의 LCA

  • 유호천;조균형
    • The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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    • v.29 no.8
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    • pp.12-16
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    • 2000
  • 건축물에서의 전과정 평가(LCA life cycle assessment)에 대하여 살펴보고 건축설비에서의 LCA 개념을 소개하고자 한다

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건축설비의 전과정평가 LCA

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    • The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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    • v.29 no.8
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    • pp.30-33
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    • 2000
  • 아직까지 국내에서는 정립되지 못한 건축 설비의 전과정평가(life cycle assessment)에 대하여 기술하고자 한다.

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Analysis of the Present Status and Characteristics of Environmental Product Declaration of Ready-mixed Concrete (레디믹스트 콘크리트의 환경성적표지 현황 및 특성 분석)

  • Kim, Rak-Hyun;Kim, Gwang-Hyun;Park, Won-Jun;Roh, Seung-Jun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.137-148
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    • 2022
  • Recently, in the concrete industry, the development and commercialization of low-carbon products of ready-mixed concrete have emerged as part of the efforts to realize carbon neutrality. This study aims to investigate the current status of environmental product declaration(EPD) of ready-mixed concrete and to analyze the characteristics of carbon emissions by compressive strength, life cycle stage, and region. To this end, the related certification system requiring the calculation of carbon emissions in the concrete industry was analyzed. The target of analyzing the current status of carbon emissions was set as a product of ready-mixed concrete that acquired EPD certification based on the life cycle assessment method. In addition, the trend of carbon emissions according to each characteristic was reviewed by analyzing carbon emissions by the life cycle of ready-mixed concrete products, analyzing carbon emissions by standard, and analyzing carbon emissions by region. As a result, the carbon emissions in the pre-production stage were 99% compared to total carbon emissions., and as it increased from 18MPa to 40MPa, carbon emissions also increased. Even with the same specifications, the carbon emissions in the capital region were higher than in the southern region.

Economic Analysis of Power Transmission Lines using Interval Mathematics

  • Teegala, Srinivasa Kishore;Singal, Sunil Kumar
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.1471-1479
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    • 2015
  • A major portion of the capital costs in the present day power transmission systems are due to the cost of equipment and construction process. Transmission utilities in the recent years are drawing greater attention towards performing life cycle costing studies for cost management and decision making. However, the data involved in these studies are highly uncertain and the effect of these uncertainties cannot be directly included in the study process, resulting in inaccurate solutions. Interval mathematics provides a method for including these uncertainties throughout the cost analysis and provides final solution range in the form of intervals. In this regard, it is essential and extremely important that significant research has to be carried out in understanding the principles of life cycle costing methodology and its applicability to cost analysis of transmission lines along with uncertainties involved in the cost assessment process. In this paper, economic analysis of power transmission lines using interval mathematics has been studied. Life cycle costing studies are performed using net present value analysis on a range transmission lines used in India and the results are analyzed. A cost break even analysis considering right of way costs was carried out to determine the point of economy indifference.

A Study on the Developing of the Life Cycle Cost Analysis System for Buildings (건축물의 Life Cycle Cost 분석 시스템 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Ji Sang-Jun;Park Tae-Keun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • autumn
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    • pp.450-453
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    • 2001
  • Recently, the government recommend the use of LCC analysis at a feasibility phase by comprehensive countermeasures for efficient public construction projects and comprehensive countermeasures against preventing unconscientious construction. From the end of 1980's, studies of LCC is in progress actively However, it is difficult to put to practical use for lack of a process, a detailed guideline and existing data about LCC analysis. This study proposes a analysis methodology and a cost model can estimate life cycle cost for Buildings. Furthermore, it develops algorithms for computerizing which is able to estimate efficient LCC assessment.

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