There are secral tools that can be used for LCA but it appears that some tools are more detailed than others. In europe the calculation methods seems to go into great detail.

I had a designer come back from Green Build talking about life cycle assessments for individual furniture pieces. Free standing desks, tables, and office furniture in general.

Resurrecting Mark Webster’s previous thread – I am finalizing a PC 63 submission and I’m curious what strategy others have used to define the reference building.

Two questions: 1) Is it acceptable to submit this as an ID point, outside of the pilot process?

Let’s suppose a building is designed to use a material that although it has high embodied energy (concrete), it will improve the operational thermal performance due to thermal mass and the overall