Laurent Stephan

Buildings are one of the main drivers of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and their life cycle emissions need to be significantly reduced in order to address the unprecedented climate emergency. While there are numerous studies on zero operational energy and GHG emissions buildings, very few studies exist on buildings that aim to reach zero life cycl...

Achieving net zero life cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions buildings is rare. This would entail not only covering operational energy use, but also embodied energy and displacing embodied greenhouse gas emissions in construction materials and renewable energy systems, across their supply chains. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the feasib...