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Life-Cycle Analysis
Instructor: Wayne B. Trusty
Dates: April 19th, 2010.
Fees: $275* CDN
Deadline for registration: MONDAY MARCH 29. Additional fees will
apply after this date.
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*Workshop fees INCLUDES workshop lunches!
The building sector is being called upon to help fight climate
change by achieving ambitious reduction targets for greenhouse
gas emissions while at the same time incorporating other “green”
considerations. Life cycle assessment (LCA), which allows the
impartial comparison of building designs based on measures such
as global warming potential, is an essential part of this effort
and, thanks to the ATHENA® EcoCalculator for Assemblies, is
now more accessible than ever before to mainstream design professionals.
With an introduction to the EcoCalculator, architects,
engineers and others now have access to instant LCA results for
hundreds of common building assemblies. The results embedded in
the tool are based on detailed assessments completed with the
ATHENA®Impact Estimator for buildings, which in turn uses
ATHENA’s own widely-acclaimed datasets and data from the
US Life Cycle Inventory
Database.
Developed by the ATHENA Institute in association with the University
of Minnesota and Morrison Hershfield Consulting Engineers , this
tool was commissioned by the Green Building Initiative™
(GBI) for use with the Green Globes™ environmental assessment
and rating system. Because of its value as an indicator of climate
change impacts, the GBI also supported the team’s creation
of a generic version for use by the entire sustainable design
community.
Links:
Athena Institute
Where:
Riverstone Retreat Centre
233639 Concession 2
Durham, ON
N0G 1R0
Directions to Riverstone:
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Tool List:
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