Building life cycle

Building life cycle

Building life cycle refers to the view of a building over the course of its entire life - in other words, viewing it not just as an operational building, but also taking into account the design, installation, commissioning, operation and decommissioning phases. It is useful to use this view when attempting to improve an operational feature of a building that is related to how a building was designed. For example, overall energy consumption. In the vast majority of cases there is less than sufficient effort put into designing a building to be energy efficient and hence large inefficiencies are incurred in the operational phase. Current research is ongoing in exploring methods of incorporating a whole life cycle view of buildings, rather than just focusing on the operational phase as is the current situation.


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно сделать НИР?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Life-cycle assessment — Cradle to grave redirects here. For other uses, see Cradle to the Grave (disambiguation). A life cycle assessment (LCA, also known as life cycle analysis, ecobalance, and cradle to grave analysis)[1] is a technique to assess environmental impacts …   Wikipedia

  • Life cycle assessment — A life cycle assessment (LCA, also known as life cycle analysis, ecobalance, and cradle to grave analysis) is the investigation and valuation of the environmental impacts of a given product or service caused or necessitated by its existence.… …   Wikipedia

  • Safety life cycle — The safety life cycle is the series of phases from initiation and specifications of safety requirements, covering design and development of safety features in a safety critical system, and ending in decommissioning of that system. The basic… …   Wikipedia

  • Life-cycle cost —   Amount of money necessary to own, operate and maintain a building over its useful life.   California Energy Comission. Dictionary of Energy Terms …   Energy terms

  • Building Information Modeling — (BIM) is the process of generating and managing building data during its life cycle [Lee, G., Sacks, R., and Eastman, C. M. (2006). Specifying parametric building object behavior (BOB) for a building information modeling system. Automation in… …   Wikipedia

  • Building information modeling — (BIM) is the process of generating and managing building data during its life cycle[1]. BIM involves representing a design as objects – vague and undefined, generic or product specific, solid shapes or void space oriented (like the shape of a… …   Wikipedia

  • Cycle Action Auckland — Auckland Region Abbreviation CAA …   Wikipedia

  • Building science — is the collection of scientific knowledge that focuses on the analysis and control of the physical phenomena affecting buildings. This includes the detailed analysis of building materials and building envelope systems.The practical purpose of… …   Wikipedia

  • Life Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Zoology       In 2008 several zoological studies provided new insights into how species life history traits (such as the timing of reproduction or the length of life of adult individuals) are derived in part as responses to… …   Universalium

  • Building engineering education — Education in the field of Building Engineering, better known as Architectural Engineering in the United States, is the study of the integrated application of engineering principles and technology to building design and architecture. For… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”