Process-specific digital recording of construction site LCA-inventory to identify decarbonisation pathways

Abstract

In building life cycle assessment, construction site processes are currently hardly accounted for in detail. If considered, the emission values are determined by globally capturing effort values and by allocating them to individual work steps, equipment, or materials. To identify improvement potential to decarbonize construction activities, detailed process data must be captured for specific processes to determine the carbon dioxide emissions of single processes. The results can then be aggregated to larger process units e.g. to components or trades. To fully implement this approach, a recording of process-specific data at construction site is necessary. Therefore, the basic framework to record specific processes at construction site is developed in this article and LCA methodology to systematically link them to emissions is explained. Further, the method of computer vision for automated recording of construction site activities is being presented.