Development of House Environment Life-cycle Impact Organizing System to Support Design Decision-Making

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25630240
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Architectural environment/Equipment
• Research Institution: Akita Prefectural University
• Principal Investigator: ASANO Koichi 秋田県立大学, システム科学技術学部, 准教授 (70336444)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KANNO Hideto 秋田県立大学, システム科学技術学部, 准教授 (20336449) ; HASEGAWA Kenichi 秋田県立大学, システム科学技術学部, 教授 (50293494) ; MURATA Ryo 東京工業大学, 理工学研究科, 准教授 (50573119) ; MIYAOKA Futoshi 日本大学, 工学部, 助教 (80611954)
• Research Collaborator: KANEKO Naoshi ; TAKAYAMA Azusa
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ライフサイクルアセスメント / 戸建住宅 / 住宅設計 / 省エネルギー / 人間健康 / 被害算定型 / フルコスト評価 / ウェブアプリケーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Some tools for calculating CO2 emissions have been developed for housing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). However, these present tools are hard to assess a direct impact of resident such as health risk and amenity. It is considered that the tool that can assess the direct impact of residents can be helpful in checking up the cost-effectiveness on a personal level during the housing design. In this study, we propose a new LCA tool experimentally that is based on the idea of Life-cycle Impact assessment Method using by Endpoint modeling (LIME) developed by The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). The objects of full cost accounting include direct private costs and indirect private costs. The LCA tool has a function of displaying calculation results as amounts of direct and indirect private costs and social costs after inputting housing conditions and lifestyle demands.

Free Research Field

建築学