Integrating health and sustainability in Life Cycle Assessment

Conference paper (2003)

Authors

E. Hasselaar OLD Housing Quality and Process Innovation
G Klunder OLD Housing Quality and Process Innovation
L. Morawska External organisation
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OLD Housing Quality and Process Innovation
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2003

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OLD Housing Quality and Process Innovation

Abstract

Until now health impact assessment and environmental impact assessment were two different issues, often not addressed together. Both issues have to be dealt with for sustainable building. The aim of this paper is to link healthy and sustainable housing in life cycle assessment (LCA). Two strategies are studied: clean air as a functional unity and health as a quality indicator. The strategies are illustrated with an example on the basis of Eco-Quantum, which is a Dutch whole-building assessment tool. It turns out that both strategies do not conflict with the LCA methodology. The LCA methodology has to be refined for this purpose.