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it can be a valuable tool for building professionals and the people they collaborate with to understand the environmental impact they have and how they can reduce it to ultimately increase the value of their developments.
Life Cycle Assessment or LCA is a tool providing information to building professionals helping them to understand the energy usage and various other environmental effects that are associated with the entire life cycle phase of a building. LCA is a method used to evaluate the environmental impact of processes and products from “cradle to grave”. LCA endeavours to identify the environmental effects of a product, and is progressively becoming a more widely adopted practice in the context of national and international environmental regulations.
An LCA is an optional rating system that has two main benefits, those being to help consumers and building-code officials make informed decisions whilst designing and building, and attempting to drive innovation by demonstrating areas through which the manufacturers can improve a product’s quality and efficiency.
A Life Cycle Assessment requires the interrogation and study of the procedures through which a product is created, used and subsequently disposed. This process includes the study of the transport of materials, their packaging and the disposal of said packaging, as well as the embodied energy required to construct them. This is compared against international standards using LCA databases, tools, and models, to attempt to fully understand the smallest implications that production and construction has on the environment. By using an LCA, contractors can know how they can better prevent environmental problems related to project management and improper waste disposal, home builders using LCA can explain how a green building material yields energy savings throughout its lifetime, and building owners can see how sustainable products reduce environmental impacts for the lifetime of their investment.
An LCA is an optional rating system that has two main benefits, those being to help consumers and building-code officials make informed decisions whilst designing and building, and attempting to drive innovation by demonstrating areas through which the manufacturers can improve a product’s quality and efficiency.
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