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The Low Resource Consumption Buildings and Construction by Use of Life-Cycle Assessment in Design and Decision Making (LoRe-LCA) project aims to coordinate activities regarding the application of life-cycle assessment (LCA) in the European construction sector, focusing on comparing and improving the functional units used for LCA for whole buildings, improving the possibilities to compare results for different alternatives during design stage, and for comparison of results for different buildings. The project focus...

Energy demand and consumption is one of the key factors of a country’s level of development. They are not only related with economic development but also the dimension of security and environment should be taken into account. Hence, sustainability and resource diversity have overriding importance for the countries. Turkey has a considerably high level of renewable energy resources that can be a part of the total energy network in the country The optimum use of Turkey’s non-renewable and renewable resources should ...