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The document outlines a group work assignment to conduct a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for a planned residential apartment building in Gothenburg, aimed at reducing environmental impact. The LCA will be performed using openLCA software and will serve as a reference for future projects, focusing on material choices and energy systems to achieve a 50% reduction in CO2 impact. Minimum requirements include providing Global Warming Potential values for specific life cycle modules and analyzing multiple impact categories.

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Case Study Selma_updated with minimum requirements

The document outlines a group work assignment to conduct a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for a planned residential apartment building in Gothenburg, aimed at reducing environmental impact. The LCA will be performed using openLCA software and will serve as a reference for future projects, focusing on material choices and energy systems to achieve a 50% reduction in CO2 impact. Minimum requirements include providing Global Warming Potential values for specific life cycle modules and analyzing multiple impact categories.

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1 Group work assignment: Selma

1.1 Introduction to the assignment

On request of a local housing company, you are asked to conduct an LCA analysis of a planned
residential apartment building in Gothenburg (see Figure 1). The client has requested an LCA to be
done as a first step towards developing a more sustainable building as a so-called “climate pilot”,
where they want to investigate how to reduce the environmental impact of a building from a life
cycle perspective.

The LCA needs to be conducted with the LCA software openLCA.

Figure 1: Artist impression of the project SELMA in Backa, Gothenburg

The purpose with the LCA study is to investigate the environmental impacts of the project during the
building life cycle. The project is intended to serve as a reference project for the client. The LCA
results of this project will be used to guide estimations of the environmental impacts of future
projects.

It is your task to develop an LCA that fulfils the client’s needs – i.e., an LCA conducted in openLCA of
the Selma apartment building, that can be used as a reference.

During the lectures, you have been introduced to a number of critical choices related to the Goal and
Scope, Inventory, Impact Assessment and Interpretation phases. To satisfy the client, you are
required to think critically about your choices regarding these topics and describe them in your
report.
Examples of relevant choices include:

- What life cycle stages to do we include?


- What type of impact indicators are relevant?
- What data quality and coverage are acceptable?
- What to do in case of missing data?

1.2 Introduction to the building project

The project you will assess is a residential building that was developed by Framtiden Byggutveckling.
It is part of the development of Selma Stad in the district Backa in Gothenburg. The building is
planned to have 5 to 6 floors and provide space for approximately 66 apartments of different sizes.

There are the following area measures given that you can use:

- BTA (gross area of building) 5550 m2


- BOA (living area) 3585 m2

To simplify, it can be assumed that the heated area Atemp equals the living area BOA. The building will
be supplied via district heating with a yearly energy demand of 60 kWh/m2Atemp.

The building is supposed to serve a s a pilot project where the client wants to investigate how to
lower the buildings CO2 impact through the choice of materials and energy systems (HVAC). The
client’s overall goal is to lower the building’s CO2 impact by 50 %.

Areas that can be investigated within the study:

- Building materials with low climate impact


- Reuse of building material
- Efficient energy systems
Figure 2: Floor plan of the project
1.3 Inventory data
The contractor delivered some project specific data on the building materials that are planned to be
used for the project (see Table 1).

Table 1: Preliminary bill of resources delivered by the building contractor

Location Material Amount Unit


Plastic film, vapour barrier 0,20 m3
EPS, expanded polystyrene, compressive strength class 80, 16 kg/m3 1087,20 m2
Self levelling mortar, 3-50 mm, 1400 kg/m3 983,00 m2
Foundation
Ready-mix concrete, low-strength, generic, C12/15 983,00 m2
Concrete, C30/37, 2350 kg/m3 269617,20 m2
Reinforcing steel, 7850 kg/m3 44029,00 kg
Pillars Structural steel, 7850 kg/m3 50992,00 kg
Aggregate 548,00 ton
Gypsum board, floor board, 1120 kg/m3 4567,00 m2
Glass wool, sound insulation, 14 kg/m3 4567,00 m2
Ceilings
Cross-laminated timber, softwood, 465 kg/m3, moisture content 12% 4567,00 m2
Particle board, 700 kg/m3 4567,00 m2
Glulam, spruce, 434 kg/m3, moisture content 12% 55923,00 kg
Concrete, C30/37, 2350 kg/m3 209,00 m3
Staircase
Reinforcing steel, 7850 kg/m3 20862,00 kg
Concrete, C30/37, 2350 kg/m4 59,00 m3
Balconies Reinforcing steel, 7850 kg/m3 7102,00 kg
Structural steel, 7850 kg/m3 14625,80 kg
Plastic film, vapour barrier 0,25 m3
Gypsum board, standard board, 710 kg/m3 1254,00 m2
Sawn timber, softwood, 455 kg/m3, moisture content 16% 6751,00 m2
Roof
Roofing felt, single layer, 1410 kg/m3 1254,00 m2
Glulam, spruce, 434 kg/m3, moisture content 12% 12613,00 kg
Cellulose fibre, recycled paper, loose wool 24265,00 kg
Plastic film, vapour barrier 0,90 m3
Gypsum board, standard board, 710 kg/m3 3004,00 m2
Outer walls
Sawn timber, softwood, 455 kg/m3, moisture content 16% 24603,00 kg
Cellulose fibre, virgin paper, boards 45360,00 kg
Facade Fibre-reinforced cement facade board, 1700 kg/m3 3004,00 m2
Outer doors Exterior door, steel, solid, 29.4 kg/m2 18,00 m2
Windows Window, wood/aluminium,, 3-glass, 35.5 kg/m2 631,00 m2
Cross-laminated timber, softwood, 465 kg/m3, moisture content 12% 4138,00 m2
Gypsum plasterboard, fireboard, 830 kg/m3 4138,00 m2
Gypsum board, standard board, 710 kg/m3 5100,00 m2
Inner Walls
Sawn timber, softwood, 455 kg/m3, moisture content 16% 7801,00 kg
Cellulose fibre, recycled paper, loose wool 17587,00 kg
Cellulose fibre, virgin, boards 8805,00 kg
Apartment door, wood, solid, 26.1 kg/m2 107,00 m2
Inner doors
Interior door, wood, plain or mirrored, 16.5 kg/m2 320,00 m2
2 Minimum requirements

We encourage you to focus on your interests within the given boundaries of the project, e.g. which
environmental impacts are studied, how to reduce the impacts, or how to analyze and use the
results.

However, there are three minimum requirements to meet within the project:

1. Provide GWP values for the life cycle modules A1-A3,


2. Analyse at least one additional life cycle module, and
3. Assess more than one impact category

3 Report structure and Tips

You are free to choose an appropriate structure for your report. The report should give the reader a
clear understanding of the decisions you have made while conducting the LCA.

Some basic tips:

Tip 1: Follow the common LCA framework

- Goal and Scope


- Life Cycle Inventory
- Life Cycle Impact Assessment
- Interpretations

Tip 2: When choosing system boundaries, you are recommended to use the European standard that
covers LCA for construction works (EN 15978:2011) (see Figure 3).

Figure 3: Life-cycle stages defined according to the EN 15978:2011 standard (Source: EN 15978:2011,
p.21)

Tip 3: Make appropriate assumptions and justify them in terms of “missing data”, for example:

- energy and/or water consumption during the use phase of the building
- materials that you can’t find in the given database

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