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A Survey on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Triple Bottom Line of Buildings

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Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Green Building, Civil Engineering and Smart City (GBCESC 2022)

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The idea of life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) has recently been embraced in the building field, and academics and practitioners are paying more attention to it. However, the applications of LCSA for triple bottom line (TBL) are still not clear. Therefore, this survey tries to close this research problem by reviewing the peer-reviewed literature papers involved. After illustrating the definition and component of LCSA and TBL, 20 academic publications obtained from the Scopus database were chosen for further analysis and discussion. By summarizing these studies, economic, environmental, social indicators for LCSA are presented. Then, a methodological framework for LCSA consists of four steps: 1) system boundary definition; 2) inventory; 3) impact assessment; 4) interpretation. Finally, the implementations of building information modelling, artificial intelligence, and internet of things will be future directions. Findings from this review are thought to be valuable for academics and practitioners.

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  1. School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Kun Lu & Xueyuan Deng

  2. Shanghai Key Laboratory for Digital Maintenance of Buildings and Infrastructure, School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Xueyuan Deng

  3. School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China

    Baoquan Cheng

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Lu, K., Deng, X., Cheng, B. (2023). A Survey on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Triple Bottom Line of Buildings. In: Guo, W., Qian, K. (eds) Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Green Building, Civil Engineering and Smart City. GBCESC 2022. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 211. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5217-3_13

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