A holistic view of the reduced environmental impact of buildings in Mediterranean Area
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https://doi.org/10.3989/ic.11.066Keywords:
low impact building materials, embodied energy, energy in use, building prototype monitoringAbstract
LIMA, Low Impact Mediterranean Architecture, is an initiative that aims to demonstrate the technical feasibility and economic viability of drastically reducing the environmental impact of buildings in countries with warm climates. The initiative is applicable to both new construction and torefurbishment and leads to improvements in comfort and indoor quality. The holistic vision of the environmental impact presented here contemplates notonly the energy consumed in use but also the energy and water used in the complete life cycle of the building, including the energy embodied in the materials, as well as aspects relating to health and comfort. The verification methodology is based on the definition and the analysis of atypical, reference, block of flats, the actual construction of a prototype representative of a substitution of one flat within this reference block,and the monitoring and analysis of this prototype in standard conditions and also when actually occupied.
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