Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Building Construction: A Case Study in China

Life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) has been increasingly implemented in a wide spectrum of products. Considering the vital importance buildings to human lives, it is surprising that there have few LCSA case studies from mainland China, which boasts largest developing economy world. This study aims implement typical residential building project China. The three areas protections (AoPs) are integrated into an overarching framework by applying analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method. It found less impacts climate change, acidification and toxicity, but greater ozone depletion freshwater eutrophication, as compared benchmarks buildings. single score estimated be 71.5/100, with 40.86% caused environmental impact, 29.68% economic impact 29.46% social impact. results studied further existing Hong Kong. would contribute knowledge understanding performance methodology presented this can improvements evaluation, both regionally globally.