Lifecycle assessment (LCA) in building construction (2025)
Doctoral School of Engineering and Science at Aalborg University
Welcome to Lifecycle assessment (LCA) in building construction
Description:
This course aims at advancing knowledge and skills in life cycle assessment in the building construction domain. In our problem based-learning environment (PBL), the students will be actively involved in shaping their experience and outcomes. Activities include group work, problem defining and solving based on real-world cases, illustrative practical exercises and critical discussions.
Prior to the course the students will work in groups on a main subject of assessment and will prepare it for the further analysis during the course. This may be a theoretical subject or a specific assignment related to the student’s own activities. After the course, the report or paper will collect the study in a presentable manner. These deliverables will be shared among all participants for extending learnings across the groups.
Preliminary schedule:
Prerequisites: The target audience of the course includes academics (PhDs, postdoc, other) or professionals who already have basic experience with LCA and intend to bring their LCA competences to an advanced level. Basic experience may include having carried out simple LCAs in practice or education or having elementary knowledge of LCA theory.
Learning objectives: The student will acquire advanced skills and knowledge in LCA related to construction and buildings and will be able to perform LCA to analyse a building’s life cycle impacts, propose mitigation measures and navigate in the most relevant methodological approaches critically.
Teaching methods: Lectures, workshops, exercises, group activities, reading, report writing.
Form of evaluation: Final report or paper, delivered two weeks after the final module.
Key literature: TBA
Organizer: Associate prof. Kai Kanafani, kak@build.aau.dk
Lecturers:
Associate prof. Endrit Hoxha, BUILD
Associate prof. Kai Kanafani, BUILD
Postdoc Maria Balouktsi, BUILD
Postdoc Regitze Kjær Zimmermann, BUILD
Research Assistant Camilla Ernst Andersen, BUILD
Research Assistant Rasmus Nøddegaard Hansen, BUILD
ECTS: 3
Time: 21 May, 4 June 2025
Place: Aalborg University
City: Copenhagen
Maximal number of participants: 25
Deadline: 30 April 2025