To evaluate the sustainability of urban planning projects through an LCA approach: example of application of the NEST tool and requirements for its use in the context of Ecuador and Latin America

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dc.careerCarrera de Arquitecturaes
dc.category.authorprincipalen_US
dc.contributorYépez, Grace
dc.contributorSalmon, Nicolás
dc.contributorLotteau, Marc
dc.contributor.authorYépez Madruñero, Grace Jeanneth
dc.date2016-09-30
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-04T21:24:50Z
dc.date.available2023-11-04T21:24:50Z
dc.dedication.authorTCes
dc.description.abstractUrban planners are facing a growing demand for high performance projects in terms of control and reduction of environmental impacts. However, the complex and multidimensional concept of sustainable urban development often loses its core substance when confronted to practice realities of urban projects because of a lack of adapted decision support tools. The question arises as to how the effective consideration of the environment and the limitation of the project impacts can be taken into account as soon as the early design stages? As an answer to this question, we developed NEST (Neighborhood Evaluation for Sustainable Territories), a life cycle assessment (LCA) tool for the built environment at the neighborhood scale. LCA has been increasingly used to assess the environmental impacts of construction products and buildings during the last 25 years. And today, a new trend stems in the application of LCA to larger systems such as urban islets or neighborhoods. NEST addresses early design stages, and uses 3D models of neighborhood projects to quantitatively assess a set of environmental impacts. In this paper we propose a presentation of the tool, and an application through the case study of a new development project for a peri-urban area. Moreover we analyze the opportunity and the requirements for the adaptation of the tool, initially developed in Europe, under the context of Latin America, whether it is for the availability of data and for the coherence with specific challenges and political objectives in the area of South America.en_US
dc.event.cityQuitoes
dc.event.countryEcuadores
dc.event.nameTo evaluate the sustainability of urban planning projects through an LCA approach: example of application of the NEST tool and requirements for its use in the context of Ecuador and Latin Americaen_US
dc.event.paperTo evaluate the sustainability of urban planning projects through an LCA approach: example of application of the NEST tool and requirements for its use in the context of Ecuador and Latin Americaen_US
dc.event.publicationFirst International Conference On Urban Physics - Ficup 2016en_US
dc.facultyArquitectura, Diseño y Artes Visualeses
dc.id.author1713338612
dc.id.type1
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.puce.edu.ec/handle/123456789/4324
dc.indexed.databaseEventoes
dc.language.isoen
dc.list.authorsYépez, G., Salmon, N. y Lotteau, M.
dc.rightsOpenAccessen
dc.titleTo evaluate the sustainability of urban planning projects through an LCA approach: example of application of the NEST tool and requirements for its use in the context of Ecuador and Latin Americaen_US
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