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The financial component applies discounted cash flow analysis over the building lifespan, with discount rates reflecting contractual characteristics; the carbon component uses Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) 2005.
For instance, wood window frames become the optimal component for less energy and maintenance cost when the building lifespan changes from 14 to 60 years.
The assessment identifies a range of embodied carbon emissions between 179.3 kgCO2e/m2-1050 kgCO2e/m2 (50-year builifespanfespan) that reflects a share between 9% and 80% to the total life cycle impact.
A case study of an office building shows that when the building lifespan is greater than 30 years, the cumulative annual energy consumption cost is projected to be higher than the initial construction cost.
The study examined the role that geography, energy performance, electricity-grid mix, building type and building lifespan have on overall environmental performance. .
The study examined the role that geography, energy performance, electricity-grid mix, building type and building lifespan have on overall environmental performance of new construction versus older building reuse. .
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The implications of building lifespans, annual energy price increase and discount rate on the optimum measure were also analysed.
On Radio 4's Start the Week, James Crawford, publicising his new book about vanished buildings, Fallen Glory, argued that, in a building's lifespan, decline and damage are "part of the story".
At last, this paper concludes some suggestions for prolonging the building's lifespan from the aspects of the demolition decision making system, maintenance and adaptive reuse of the existing buildings.
This paper measures the average service life of existing buildings based on the investigation of 1732 demolished buildings in seven communities of Jiangbei District in Chongqing from 2008 to 2010, and then explores the influencing factors for a building's lifespan with an improved Hedonic model.
He tells us that before the crash, construction of buildings with a lifespan of 20-plus years was about 8% of our economy.
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