Life cycle assessment of energy and environmental implications 3 of the implementation of conservation technologies in school buildings in Mendoza-Argentina

Abstract

The energy and environmental implications of applying di/erent conservative technologies in school buildings in arid Andean regions of Mendoza—Argentina have been assessed in this work using life cycle assessment. The case studied is a school building which has 11 recently been built in Lavalle, a county in northern Mendoza’s province. The obtained results show that almost all the environmental e/ects investigated are improved when the conservative technologies are implemented, except for the photochemical ozone formation 13 potential. The use of wood in an uncontrolled combustion as the energetic source for brick baking has been identi4ed as the responsible process of that unintended negative e/ect. ? 2002 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.