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Prospective and Early-Stage LCA Lab

PESLL research group investigates the life cycle environmental impacts of early-stage technology prior to commercialization to identify environmental hotspots and provide feedback to design of new technology.

The research in construction management focuses on optimizing green buildings using Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Lean principles. The research aims to develop a new method for evaluating green buildings. This method is based on synergizing BIM functionalities, Lean construction practices, and LCA environmental impact quantification to optimize green building performance. This method introduces a new process-oriented, rather than product-oriented, approach to envision green buildings that, in turn, mitigate climate change impacts and reduce construction and demolition waste which can be translated to cost savings for construction projects and improve the construction industry. Also, we are working with the Ministry of Construction and Housing in developing material ”passports” for the buildings in Israel. We investigate the use of material “passports” as systems for digitizing the material composition of new buildings to facilitate their eventual future disassembly and sale to secondary recycle markets when the building is demolished to satisfy the circular economy concept.

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