Integrated environmental and economic assessment in the construction sector

The consideration of the full life cycle of products supports to systematically account for and reduce both life cycle costs and environmental impacts. This is especially relevant for products with a long life cycle, as it is in the construction sector. With a longer life cycle, the share of costs and environmental impacts occurring during the operation phase becomes more relevant in comparison to the initial investment costs and environmental impact. In order to facilitate results interpretation, methods for intuitive results presentation have to be applied. One method to present multidimensional economic and environmental results are ecoportfolios. This paper describes the approach that is being applied for results presentation within the CILECCTA project.