Dominik Steinberger-Maierhofer

• Master of Science
• Graz University of Technology

As the European Union (EU) is aiming to realize climate neutrality by 2050, there is a need to investigate greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction and carbon dioxide removal strategies (CRRS) from a life cycle perspective. Existing literature lacks harmonization of building-related strategies considering the whole-life cycle of buildings and the interlinkag...

Biobased building materials play a crucial role in reducing the embodied Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions of buildings. When quantifying the GHG emissions of biobased materials, the methodological choices made when modelling biogenic carbon in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) influence the results. To showcase these implications, we applied three differen...

This study assesses the carbon dioxide storage ranges within new and innovative building materials. We conduct a Systematic Literature Review and gather data for carbon dioxide storage in building materials from 27 studies. The obtained values are classified into derived Eurostat categories ‘biomass - fast growing’, ‘biomass - slow growing’, ‘non-m...

Purpose Bio-based insulation materials are one of the most promising solutions for reducing the environmental impacts of building envelopes. Among these materials, the environmental benefits of mycelium-based materials have merely been investigated, despite their promising technical and thermal properties. In this paper, we perform a first prospect...

As highlighted in the latest IPCC report, achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions requires large-scale carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere. Building materials have the capacity to store carbon dioxide through processes like carbonation of cementitious materials or the sequestration of carbon dioxide via bio-based materials. To investigat...

To make efforts for climate protection in the City of Graz (Austria) as effective as possible, the city has established a climate protection fund, from which the KNB (Klimafreundliche und Nachhaltige Baustandards) project emerged. In the KNB project, a new approach was developed on how the city can already request and implement sustainability crite...

Buildings constructed today need to be nearly-zero energy/emission buildings (nZEB) during operation. Amongst strategies to meet today's nZEB performance requirements are passive building concepts. However, it is unclear to which degree such concepts aid buildings to achieve net-zero carbon targets. To address this research gap, we conduct a life c...

Purpose With a contribution of 39% to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, reducing the environmental impacts of buildings plays an undisputed role in achieving climate goals. Therefore, the development of projects with a low carbon footprint is of crucial importance. Although several active and passive solutions as well as design strategies have been d...

Purpose A detailed assessment of the environmental impacts of the building requires a substantial amount of data that is time- and effort-consuming. However, limitation of the system boundary to certain materials and components can provide misleading impact calculation. In order to calculate the error gap between detailed and simplified assessments...

In der Treibhausgasbilanz (THG-Bilanz) von Universitäten sind die Emissionen von Universitätsgebäuden, sogenannte graue Emissionen, bis dato nicht inbegriffen. Dabei tragen sie, wie das Beispiel des Electronic Based Systems Center an der Technischen Universität Graz (TUG) zeigt, zu rund 18 Prozent der gesamten jährlichen THG-Emissionen der TUG bei....

Diese Studie beschreibt die Ergebnisse der Ökobilanz für alle wesentlichen Gewerke des Electronics Based Systems Building (EBS) an der TU Graz. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass aufgrund des hohen Betriebsenergiebedarfs in einem Forschungs-und Laborgebäude, dieser rund 82% der Treibhausgasemissionen (THG-Emissionen) über den Betrachtungszeitraum von 50 J...