Journal
BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 190, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107530
Keywords
Life cycle assessment (LCA); Buildings; Design; Visualisation
Funding
- Swiss Federal Office of Energy [SI/501811-01]
- National Research, Development and Innovation Fund of Hungary [FK 128663]
- BME Water Sciences & Disaster Prevention TKP2020 IE grant of NKFIH Hungary (BME IE-VIZ TKP2020)
- Spanish Ministry for Science [BIA2017-84830-R]
- Research Centre on Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities (FME ZEN)
- ZEN
- Norwegian Research Council
- Belfast School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Ulster University, UK
- Fraunhofer Singapore Centre at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
- DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) [2019/1]
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is increasingly used in decision-making in building and neighborhood design processes. The visualization of LCA results is crucial for interpretation and decision-making. The current state of art in visualizing LCA results is reviewed in this paper to provide a structured overview, with discussions on potential future developments for intuitive and design-integrated visualizations.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is increasingly used for decision-making in the design process of buildings and neighbourhoods. Therefore, visualisation of LCA results to support interpretation and decision-making becomes more important. The number of building LCA tools and the published literature has increased substantially in recent years. Most of them include some type of visualisation. However, there are currently no clear guidelines and no harmonised way of presenting LCA results. In this paper, we review the current state of the art in visualising LCA results to provide a structured overview. Furthermore, we discuss recent and potential future developments. The review results show a great variety in visualisation options. By matching them with common LCA goals we provide a structured basis for future developments. Case studies combining different kinds of visualisations within the design environment, interactive dashboards, and immersive technologies, such as virtual reality, show a big potential for facilitating the interpretation of LCA results and collaborative design processes. The overview and recommendations presented in this paper provide a basis for future development of intuitive and design-integrated visualisation of LCA results to support decision-making.
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