Comparison and development of sustainable office façade renovation solutions in the Netherlands

In this paper, the relation between building environmental assessment outcome and actual environmental impact is presented of sustainable office facade renovation solutions, by reflecting the outcome of the tool to the carrying capacity of a system. The relation is investigated through a comparison of the energy and material aspect of three office façade renovation solutions using four different assessment tools. Using a tool in which energy and material impact is related to the carrying capacity, current energy focused optimization might lead to a sub optimization of actual environmental impa... Mehr ...