SOCIAL AND ENERGY REDEVELOPMENT OF AN OLD BUILDING

The experiment wants to show how a projection
exploiting the knowledge of the life cycle analysis of
materials has less impact than the same project without
the use of this kind of analysis.
Recently, the life cycle analysis (LCA) has been
commonly used as a check instrument in the design of
new buildings, but it is not yet used regularly in existing
redevelopments, most of all if they concern a very old
building as the example below.
The life cycle assessment was introduced in 1993 by the
SETAC (Society of Environmental Toxicology And
Chemistry) and it is a method of systematic analysis that
values the environmental impacts of a product, the
process of production and its activities throughout the
life cycle. The life cycle of products surrounds all the
phases of the production and also the use and the end of
the components of the process itself. The analysis starts
from the extraction of the natural resources and the
production of energy for the productive process; material
and energy are parts of the phases of production,
transport and use, as they are part of the phase of
recycling, reuse and disposal.
We have decided to use a life cycle approach, because we
can obtain knowledge of the damage and the
environmental potentials, due to what happens in each
single operative phase. Our goal is to use solid notions
about the environmental impacts of a production choice
like the renovation of a building from 1836.