| Keywords |
Life Cycle assessment ; Life cycle inventory ; Life cycle impact analysis ; Life cycle costing ; Window totalcost assessment |
| Abstract |
Since the global environment interests have been increasing at home and abroad, many studies in the fieldof architecture have conducted for the purpose of converting the construction industry into the environment-friendlyindustry. The previous studies on the subject have separated the results of environmental and economic performanceas the independent evaluation elements and it doesn’t correspond with the expectations of environmental evaluationrequiring in these days. For the reasons that we have mentioned above, this study developed a model in order toevaluate environmental performance of window system by integrating the analysis results of environmental and eco-nomic performance into cost. Thus, it does a quantitative evaluation of investment value of environment which is themajor aim of considering economic elements in the environmental performance evaluation. |