Embodied energy research in Irish buildings
Embodied energy represents all the energy expended in constructing a building including materials’ extraction, transport, fabrication, construction and may deal with maintenance and eventual disposal. It is often overlooked during the design process despite accounting for between 10 and 20 times annual operational energy use, depending on the ultimate use of the structure. Better design standards are reducing operational energy requirements so that embodied energy is now becoming a key design issue.
Currently there is little information available to designers on the embodied energies of buildings. The objective of this project was to develop a novel embodied energy database and an innovative decision process which will enable building designers to evaluate the embodied energies of their designs.
This project was completed in The outcomes from this work include:
Acquaye, A., Duffy, A., Basu, B. (2011) Stochastic hybrid embodied CO2-eq analysis: An application to the Irish apartment building sector, Energy and Buildings, Volume 43, Issue 6, Pages 1295-1303, ISSN 0378-7788, DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.01.006. http://arrow.dit.ie/dubenart/46/
Acquaye, A., Duffy, A. and Basu, B. (2011) Embodied emissions abatement--A policy assessment using stochastic analysis, Energy Policy, Volume 39, Issue 1, Pages 429-441, ISSN 0301-4215, DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.10.022. http://arrow.dit.ie/engschcivart/13/
Adolf A. Acquaye, Aidan P. Duffy (2010) Input-output analysis of Irish construction sector greenhouse gas emissions, Building and Environment, Volume 45, Issue 3, Pages 784-791, http://arrow.dit.ie/engschcivart/15/
Acquaye, A. A.(2010) A Stochastic Hybrid Embodied Energy and CO2_eq Intensity Analysis of Building and Construction Processes in Ireland. Doctoral Thesis. Dublin, DIT. http://arrow.dit.ie/engdoc/26/
Personnel
DIT - School of Civil & Building Services Engineering
Adolf Acquaye
Dr Aidan Duffy
Collaboration:
Trinity College Dublin - Prof Biswajit Basu
Arup Consulting Engineers
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