Macroeconomics

Engineering

Compatibility (geochemistry)

Ecology

Efficient energy use

Biology

Environmental economics

Energy balance

Economics

Chemical engineering

Climate change

Balance of nature

Environmental resource management

Life-cycle assessment

Environmental science

Environmental impact assessment

Architectural engineering

Production (economics)

Sustainable Cities and Society

Today, the building is pointed out as an energy consumer, a resource depleter and a generator of environmental impacts, thus generating innumerable repercussions on the environment. To address this situation, this work is a contribution to place the building in a sustainable context by identifying the best compatibility between material, energy and climate of five ecological houses in comparison with their thermal, energy and environmental behavior. For this purpose, we carried out dynamic multi-energy zone simulations. This allowed us to know the heating needs of each house, which vary from 7kwh/m2/year to 190kwh/m2/year, those with the least satisfactory results were improved. Other simulations by Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and sensitivity analysis allowed us to identify respectively the contribution of the different sources of impacts to the overall balance and the most influential factors in order to identify the best compatibility between building materials, energy and climate.

Identification of the best material-energy-climate compatibility for five ecological houses and the contribution of their impact sources to the overall balance