A life cycle approach to Green Public Procurement of building materials and elements: A case study on windows
| Autor: | Arianna Dominici Loprieno, Pier Luigi Porta, Mario Tarantini |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Porta, Pier Luigi, Dominici Loprieno, Arianna, Tarantini, Mario |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Windows
Engineering Sustainable building Green buildings Construction materials Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Green building Window Procurement Operations management Electrical and Electronic Engineering Life-cycle assessment Civil and Structural Engineering business.industry LCA Sustainable buildings Green Public Procurement Mechanical Engineering Construction material Building and Construction Pollution General Energy Risk analysis (engineering) Verifiable secret sharing business |
| Zdroj: | Energy. 36:2473-2482 |
| ISSN: | 0360-5442 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.energy.2011.01.039 |
| Popis: | Green Public Procurement (GPP) is a significant policy tool for reducing the environmental impacts of services and products throughout their whole life cycle. Scientific and easily verifiable environmental criteria, based on a life cycle approach, should be developed and used within procurement procedures. In this paper, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is applied to wood windows showing how it can support the criteria definition. After a foreword on GPP development in Italy, the evaluation features of the environmental performances of building materials and components are outlined. The LCA case study is then presented, describing the use of the analysis results to define the environmental criteria. LCA allowed to identify the main impacts and the critical processes of the window life cycle, giving a scientific framework to discuss GPP criteria with manufacturers associations and stakeholders. Nevertheless, it couldn’t help neither in identifying detailed criteria for GPP nor to define numerical thresholds to be used as reference in procurement procedures. The appropriate strategies should be selected taking into account the technical status of the market, the standard development and the voluntary industry commitments, involving manufacturers associations. Finally, some elements to develop a structured approach for GPP of construction materials are presented. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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