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Pleiades ACV Equer

This software program for life cycle assessment of neighbourhood projects is used to measure the environmental impacts from the manufacture of materials to the end of their life.

With this software platform, designed and developed at MINES ParisTech, it is possible to perform regulatory calculations and physics-based life-cycle assessment (LCA) with the Equer tool. For example, the primary energy content of an electric kWh is not reduced for the electricity exported from a photovoltaic system and can be calculated dynamically.

The data comes from the international Ecoinvent database: each life-cycle inventory contains several thousand flows, including substances such as dioxins. LCA is therefore an effective tool for supporting eco-design, which makes it possible to compare architectural variants, construction materials or energy sources in order to choose solutions with a lower environmental impact.

The measured indicators include, among others, energy resources, water, raw materials, health and biodiversity, and climate.

The graphic modeller enables the entry of a set of buildings and the automatic generation of the corresponding solar masks. It is then possible to perform thermal simulations and life-cycle assessments by building type or for an entire urban project. In LCA, roads and other outdoor spaces, such as parks, are taken into account as well as networks (heat, drinking water and wastewater), waste management and transport.

Researchers
Mija Frossard
PhD Student
MINES ParisTech
CES
Long Pei
PhD Student
MINES ParisTech
CES
Bruno Peuportier
Research Director
MINES ParisTech
CES
Patrick Schalbart
Research Associate
MINES ParisTech
CES
Aurore Wurtz
PhD Student
MINES ParisTech
CES
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This thesis focuses on the development of the life-cycle assessment of buildings in the Chinese context. It also made it possible to supplement the existing dynamic energy simulation tool by integrating a seasonal
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An optimisation procedure will be used to complete the environmental assessment of a block of buildings while reducing economic costs and the overall impact on the environment.
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The eco-design of zero-energy buildings involves the identification of optimal solutions, in reasonable calculation times, resulting from the analysis of several performance criteria, more influential parameters and
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Solar panels integrated in a green urban area
Dynamic thermal simulation and life-cycle assessment are decision support tools that comprehensively assess the environmental performance of a building or neighbourhood project and guide its design in order to reduce the
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Ecodistrict in Paris
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Life-cycle assessment is a method to assess the environmental impacts of buildings and infrastructures throughout their life cycle, from the extraction of raw materials through to their end-of-lifetime handling.
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