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

Chris Jones cj at enersave.ca
Sun Aug 5 21:45:33 PDT 2012


Thanks Leonard, I sent an email to Athena.  I will check the BEES website.

At 08:05 PM 05/08/2012, Leonard Sciarra wrote:
>Two other sources are the Athena database 
><http://www.athenasmi.org/>http://www.athenasmi.org/ or BEES 
><http://www.nist.gov/el/economics/BEESSoftware.cfm/>http://www.nist.gov/el/economics/BEESSoftware.cfm/
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>Leonard Sciarra
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>Chris,
>You might shoot an email over to the international living futures 
>institute-  here is my contact- 
><mailto:jay.kosa at living-future.org>jay.kosa at living-future.org
>They have been working on standardisation of this type of 
>environmental impact lifecycle analysis.
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>Jeremiah D. Crossett
>CleanTech Analytics
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>On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Chris Jones 
><<mailto:cj at enersave.ca>cj at enersave.ca> wrote:
>Part of the sustainable building practice is the life cycle costs of 
>systems and materials used in the project.
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>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.
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>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.
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>The material selected is shipped from Indonesia to Toronto.
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Christopher Jones, P.Eng.
Suite 1801, 1 Yonge Street
Toronto, ON M5E1W7
Tel. 416-203-7465
Fax. 416-946-1005
email cj at enersave.ca
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