Life Cycle
Assessment (LCA) in Sustainable Building:
Fitting Tools to the Task
Overview:
There
is a critical
need to shift from prescriptive to environmental performance measures
and
approaches to green building in North
America.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) offers the best prospect for
accomplishing
that task. This presentation will focus on the essence of LCA
from a
building design team perspective, including a primer on methods and
terminology
and progress on the integration of LCA in rating systems. Included will
be a brief
overview of other
sustainable building standards development activities in the U.S.
that may
affect the Canadian approach. The presentation will also
introduce a
simple LCA tools classification system, establish how tools interrelate
and
where they fit in the green design process, including a new free
LCA-based
tool, the ATHENA EcoCalculator
for Assemblies. This
LCA-based tool, originally developed for
use in the Green Globes U.S. rating system and now being adopted for
use in a
new LEED U.S. LCA credit calculator, makes it easy for design teams to
compare
common building assemblies in terms of environmental impacts.
Target
Audience: Managers,
and professionals in all disciplines
Date: Tuesday, November
25th, 2008
Time: 7:30 am to 9:30 a.m.
Event
Location: Air
Force Officers' Mess,
158 Gloucester
St, Ottawa, Ontario
Session
Cost: Free
Registration: e-mail to Wahib Thabet wahibt@nortel.com or
call 613-763-5932
Agenda :
· 7:30-8:00
Registration, networking and coffee
·
8:00-8:10 Introduction
·
8:10-9:10 Presentation Wayne
Trusty
· 9:10-9:25 Question period
Presenter’s Bio:
Wayne
Trusty:
Masters
degree in economics and 40 years of experience in such diverse fields
as resource industry economics and policy, water resources,
transportation, energy policy and markets, Wayne Trusty now serves as
President of the ATHENA Sustainable Materials Institute and its U.S.
affiliate, Athena Institute International. He is an Adjunct Associate
Professor on the University of Calgary’s Faculty of
Environmental Design, a member of the board of the Green Building
Initiative, and Chair of the Technical Committee established in the
U.S. to take the Green Globes rating system through a full American
National Standards Institute process. He was previously a Vice Chair of
the Board of the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) and a member of
the USGBC’s LEED New Construction Steering Committee. He
continues to serve on the Metrics and Life Cycle Assessment task force
for CaGBC and on the LEED Resources and Materials Technical Advisory
Group in the United States. Wayne is a member of several other
organizations, including the U.S. Consortium for Research on
Renewable Industrial Materials (CORRIM), is past chairman of an
international technical committee examining the use of LCA with regard
to building materials and products, and was a member of the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Materials Flow
Accounting.
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