EE Settlement – Embodied Energy, Costs and Traffic in Different Settlement Patterns
Abstract
The vision for the project is to provide guidelines and tools for municipalities, regional and central authorities, as well as for professionals and the public, for assessing consequences and impacts of different housing development options, taking into account energy need, environmental impact and costs over the lifecycle - not only for the buildings, but also for surroundings, infrastructure and transport. Different settlement patterns bring along different impacts, not only caused by different building types, but also by embodied energy within the buildings, energy and investment needed for infrastructure, operating cost for public services and generated traffic. Many of these issues are not (or only to a minor degree) addressed by existing policies or guidelines. The main challenge for addressing the whole picture of consequences and impacts connected to different settlement patterns is the total lack of data for embodied energy required for infrastructure. Based on the data to be developed for embodied energy, the project will estimate the annual proportion of embodied energy in the building and the associated infrastructure and outdoor facilities. Furthermore, the building's operational energy will be calculated. This will be conducted for different typical buildings and settlement densities, which in addition will be used to model the residents' energy needs for transport, as well as for estimation of investment and operating cost for infrastructure and also of the energy need and cost for operation of services. In parallel to the these analyses the project will examine how framework conditions such as regulations, subsidies, tax incentives and households' preferences affects individuals' housing demand and location decisions. Policy recommendations will be an outcome of both the environmental and economical assessments and this framework examination. The online tool will be based on the technical and economical assessments and underpin the recommendations.
keywords Integrated Spatial and Energy Planning Embodied Energy Settlement Patterns Life Cycle Assessment
Publikationen
Embodied Energy, Costs and Traffic in Different Settlement Patterns - Background projects and tools
Autoren: Mamo Fufa, S; Klinski, M; Busswald, P; Niederl, F; Finker, C; Lichtenwoehrer, P; Neugebauer, G; Stoeglehner, G; Azrague, K; Landa Mata, I Jahr: 2019
Forschungsbericht (extern. Auftraggeber)
Project staff
Georg Neugebauer
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Georg Neugebauer
georg.neugebauer@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85519
BOKU Project Leader
01.07.2017 - 31.03.2021
Lore Abart-Heriszt
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Lore Abart-Heriszt
lore.abart@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85523
Project Staff
01.07.2017 - 31.03.2021
Gernot Stöglehner
Univ.Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Gernot Stöglehner
gernot.stoeglehner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85501, 85511
Project Staff
01.07.2017 - 31.03.2021
BOKU partners
External partners
SINTEF foundation
none
coordinator