Supporting the development of a roadmap for the reduction of whole life carbon of buildings : final technical report

This report provides the whole-life carbon (WLC) emission baseline and projections of EU buildings according to three different scenarios. It is the final report of the study Supporting the development of a roadmap for the reduction of WLC in buildings, commissioned by DG Environment of the European Commission. These results summarise the work of the study team in scaling up building-level emissions to the entire EU building stock through the modelling of building archetypes and stock-level activities such as new construction, energy efficiency renovation and demolition. This is done by assessing the potential of a list of solutions that can help reducing the operational and embodied carbon footprint of buildings, ranging from sufficiency measures avoiding new constructions to improvements in material production and efficiency in material use, as well as increasing the market share of alternative building materials.