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Key drivers of life-cycle environmental and cost assessment of windows for diff...
Saadatian, Shiva; Rodrigues, Carla; Freire, Fausto; Simões, NunoWindows are challenging building components regarding their life-cycle performance, which are influenced by parameters that often present trade-offs between environmental impacts and costs. To support the selection of windows with the lowest environmental and cost impacts in an early-design stage of buildings, it is essential to identify the key drivers to reduce the time and effort of a life-cycle assessment (...
Environmental and cost life-cycle approach to support selection of windows in e...
Saadatian, Shiva; Rodrigues, Carla; Freire, Fausto; Simões, NunoThe selection of windows with the lowest life-cycle environmental impacts in an early-design stage is important to minimize impacts of buildings. Hence, an environmental and cost streamlined life-cycle assessment (LCA) approach, incorporating probabilistic triage, has been developed to support early-decision making for selection of window materials and components. This approach permits also to reduce the uncert...
ERA Chairs@UC Guidelines: Writing ERA Chairs Proposals – Part B
Queirós Neves, Isabel (Coord.); Sousa Rodrigues, Nádia; Leite, Natacha; Saadatian, Shiva; Neves, Maria João; Barata, ClaraThis document, ERA Chairs@UC: Writing ERA Chairs Proposals – Part B (2023), was prepared within the ERA Chairs@UC initiative coordinated by the Strategic Areas Unit of the University of Coimbra. It provides internal guidelines to support researchers in preparing competitive ERA Chairs proposals under the Horizon Europe programme, specifically for the call HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-01: ERA Chairs. The document...
Integrated environmental, energy and cost life-cycle analysis of windows: Optim...
Saadatian, Shiva; Simões, Nuno; Freire, FaustoThis is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in The International Journal of Building and Environment. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107516.; There is an increasing need for energy-efficient windows; however, these windows can have high embodied impacts and can be costly. This has not been thoroughly analyzed and the l...
Embodied impacts of window systems: A comparative assessment of framing and gla...
Saadatian, Shiva; Freire, Fausto; Simões, NunoThis is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in The International Journal of Building Engineering. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2020.102042; The embodied impacts of window materials can be considered as hidden impacts. However, as buildings have become more energy efficient, the impacts of the windows are recognized as being i...