From energy efficiency to life cycle thinking: Integrating building renovation passports for sports facilities

• Full life-cycle method integrates energy, carbon, cost and carbon pricing. • Real case retrofit project for sports buildings are analysed using LCA, LCCA and dynamic simulation. • Embodied carbon and operational carbon reshape retrofit rankings between envelope and HVAC retrofit. • Carbon price scenarios reveal true long-term cost–carbon performance. • The newly presented method supports EPBD, Renovation Wave and EU Taxonomy requirements.