[Bldg-sim] Off topic but life cycle costing related

[Leonard Sciarra]

Two other sources are the Athena database http://www.athenasmi.org/ or BEES http://www.nist.gov/el/economics/BEESSoftware.cfm/



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Chris,
You might shoot an email over to the international living futures institute-  here is my contact- jay.kosa at living-future.org<mailto:jay.kosa at living-future.org>
They have been working on standardisation of this type of environmental impact lifecycle analysis.



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On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Chris Jones <cj at enersave.ca<mailto:cj at enersave.ca>> wrote:
Part of the sustainable building practice is the life cycle costs of systems and materials used in the project.

I am looking for a source to help determine the environmental impact of importing things like natural beach stones and other materials that are gathered, washed sorted and shipped from other continents to North America.  So items that are not processed like cement, steel, etc.  Sort of like the embodied energy but the embodied environmental impact.  From disturbing a beach and the surrounding waters, to the fuel used for gathering, packing, shipping and transporting to the final destination.

This particular project is installing a large, natural beach stone mosaic at the main entrance to the building.  The stones are uniformly light and dark - a "black and white" motif.  The reference material is beach stones that could be gathered from beaches within 3 miles - hand picked and transported by bicycle, wheel barrow,etc.

The material selected is shipped from Indonesia to Toronto.










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