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  • durability of building materials and components
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  • ASTM Standards related to buildings
  • ATHENA Project
  • BELCAM project
  • EE: DESTEM
  • Embodied Energy
  • IEA Annex 31 Energy Related Environmental Impact of Buildings, 1996-1999
  • SimaPro

    		• Concept:

    life cycle assessment (LCA)

    Sites:

    This link was checked on Mar-01-2004Greening the building life cycle (buildlca.rmit.edu.au/casestud/Ee/EEmain.html)

    This link was checked on Mar-01-2004Australian LCA Network (auslcanet.rmit.edu.au)

    This link was checked on Mar-01-2004Case studies (buildlca.rmit.edu.au/Casestudies.html) at RMIT

    This link was checked on Mar-01-2004List of computer tools: (buildlca.rmit.edu.au/decisiontool/tools.html) and good description for each tool, as well as web links to the relevent site.



    Web Links (6): Notes
      This link was checked on Mar-01-2004Australian LCA Network
      "Through building an LCA network it is hoped that those who wish to work in the field will be able to build on each others experience and support one another where possible. "

      This link was checked on Mar-01-2004Case studies
      cases of building projects which have used Life Cycle techniques in Australia

      This link was checked on Mar-01-2004Greening the building life cycle
      Hybrid Embodied Energy case studies, embodied energy case

      This link was checked on Mar-01-2004List of computer tools:

      This link was broken when checked on Mar-01-2004PAN - Prarie Adaptation Network, Canada
      Excellent publication list for Clearinghouse for climatic impact, adaptation and mitigation information, on Reports, journal articles, literature reviews & bibliographies (not updated frequently)

      This link was checked on Mar-01-2004SimaPro: The LCA Software Tool
      A program to "a tool to collect, analyse and monitor environmental information for products and services. " commercially available, with limited demo version. Very good for general product analysis.

    Related References (14)
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    Automating building life cycle energy assesment, by Drogemuller, R., Ambrose, M. and Tucker, S., 0
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    BEEs 2.0, building for environmental and economic sustainability-technical manual and user guide, by Lippiatt, B.C, 2002
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    Building life cycle assessment: residential case study, by Trusty, W. B. and Meil, J. K., 2002
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    Buildings as products: issues and challenges for LCA, by Trusty, W. B., Meil, J. K., 2000
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    Comparative life cycle costs for new steel portal frame building systems, by Gurung, N., Mahen Mahendran, 2001
    definite source of service life studies 8dbmc
    Durability of Building Materials and Components 8, by Lacasse, M. A. and D. J. Vanier, 1999
    SLP concept (Service Life Prediction) for wood
    Durability of wood, by Ödeen, K. and J. Norén, 1999
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    E917-99 standard practice for measuring life-cycle costs of buildings and building systems, by ASTM, 1999
    ASTM practice
    E917-99 standard practice for measuring life-cycle costs of buildings and building systems, by ASTM, 1999
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    E964-93(1998)e1 Standard Practice for Measuring Benefit-to-Cost and Savings-to-Investment Ratios for Buildings and Building Systems, by ASTM, 2002
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    Life cycle analysis of a residential home in Michigan, by Blanchard, S. and Reppe, P., 1998
    design by life cost
    Methods for designing building envelope components prepared for repair and maintenance, by Rudbeck, C., 1999
    data
    On using available environmental data in service life estimations, by Westberg, K. Johan Norén, Hülya Kus, 2001
    existing building stock
    The building stock as a research object, by Kohler, N. and Hassler, U., 2002




    CRDBER Home, at Building Envelope Performance Laboratory, CBS, BCE, Concordia, March 2005