E3 – A parametric model to evaluate trade-offs between the Energetic, Economic, and Ecological lifecycle performance of building projects (eBook)

This doctoral dissertation presents a model to evaluate trade-offs between the energetic, economic, and environmental lifecycle performance of building projects. The model is explained so as to be replicable. The model is then applied for decision-making on different strategies for existing buildings in Germany. Results from the case-study show that current state-of-the-art building strategies considerably increase the risk of missing climate change mitigation targets in exchange to a relatively small economic improvement over innovative building strategies.

Mira Conci studied architecture at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and building technology with a specialization in technologies in sustainable development at TU Delft, the Netherlands. With her doctoral dissertation on the economic and environmental impacts of decarbonisation strategies for the built environment at TU Darmstadt, she widened her fields of expertise to include cross-sectoral climate finance. She is an avid reader of scientific books on a wide array of topics, ranging from psychology to cosmology. She is currently based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.