Environmental and Economic Sustainability Indicators for External Walls

Abstract

The current context of the intensification of climate changes, on one hand, and the sharp increase in prices in the buildings sector, on the other, impose the need to find solutions that considers both economic and environmental protection aspects.This paper proposes a method of evaluating the solutions most often used today in Romania for the exterior walls in single-family residential buildings based on a global index that takes into account both environmental performances (adjusted thermal resistance, carbon footprint) as well as the economic ones (costs).