This article is written by Julie Rønholt, a former student helper from MT Højgaards Department of Virtual Design and Construction, and industrial Ph.D.-student Leonora Charlotte Malabi Eberhardt from MT Højgaards Department of Sustainability.
On the basis of an extensive literature review, the article identifies similarities between existing building life-cycle assessments and potentially important building parameters  that determine buildings’ resulting environmental impacts and resource consumption. Throughout the assessed building life-cycle assessments the highest environmental impacts originated from the production of the buildings specially for the structurally important constructions.