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Pilot credit Vs LEED V4

Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessment
posted by  Javier Garcia Jones  on 

We are working in project that it's using pilot credit. We would like to know if there are any learned lessons for V4 credit. Do you have any experience with this issue?. Thanks in advantage

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 4:58 pm

Option 4 for the Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment for 3 Credits using ATHENA.

Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessment
posted by  RICHARD ABRAHAMS  on 

Option 4 requires calculating impacts for both the Baseline Building and the Proposed Building in the following 6 categories:

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Is Athena Impact Estimator databses is recommende for South Asia

Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessment
posted by  Malan Jayawickrama  on 

I want to know whether LEED is accepting the results of whole building LCA conducted by using Athena Impact Estimator for a Building in Sri Lanka.(Since it is only for North America) Or else what

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Tue Jun 19, 2018, 2:27 pm

embodied energy

Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessment
posted by  Jody Solell  on 

Most if not all construction sites have a generator running to power the site. On new SF home construction the amount of gasoline used during the construction phase is about 100-150 gallons.

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Tue Nov 5, 2013, 6:07 pm

Tools and flexibility

Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessment
posted by  Devani PERERA  on 

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.

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LCA Question

Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessment
posted by  Ronnie Oleary  on 

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.

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Thu Dec 13, 2012, 9:18 pm

Reference Building – Try #2

Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessment
posted by  Dirk Kestner  on 

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.

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Sun Apr 12, 2015, 10:45 am

Whole Building LCA as Innovation in Design point?

Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessment
posted by  Alexandra Ramsden  on 

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

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Thu Jul 12, 2012, 2:39 pm

Whole building LCA - embodied and operational impacts

Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessment
posted by  Henrique Mendonca  on 

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

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Wed Jan 18, 2017, 11:44 pm

tools

Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessment
posted by  Emmanuel Pauwels  on 

Is one click LCA an accepted tool to demonstrate compliance with this credit?

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