DGNB criteria "Building life cycle assessment"

Objective

Our objective is to ensure a consistent life cycle approach to the planning of buildings in order to reduce emissions-related impacts on the environment and consumption of non-renewable resources to a minimum across all stages in the life of a building.

Benefits

A life cycle approach to the building planning, using life cycle assessment, helps building commissioners and designers to make environmentally friendly decisions on the basis of comprehensive information. This enables the identification of solutions that are optimised, both in terms of various relevant environmental issues and in terms of various locations and times of environmental impacts. The application of a consistent method is useful for reporting relevant environmental indicators for a building, such as CO₂ emissions or energy demand throughout the entire life cycle.

Indicators for evaluation

1. Life cycle assessments in planning

2. Life cycle assessment optimisation

3. Life cycle assessment comparison calculation

4. Agenda 2030 bonus – Climate protection goals

5. Circular economy bonus

6. Halogenated hydrocarbons in refrigerants

Schemes

Contribution to high-priority sustainability goals

  

Source of the „Sustainable Development Goals"-icons: www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/news/communications-material/

The other criteria of the topic "Environmental quality":

• ENV1.2 – Local environmental impact
• ENV1.3 – Sustainable resource extraction
• ENV2.2 – Potable water demand and waste water volume
• ENV2.3 – Land use
• ENV2.4 – Biodiversity at the site

 

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