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Pilot credit Vs LEED V4
Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessmentposted 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
Option 4 for the Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment for 3 Credits using ATHENA.
Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessmentposted by RICHARD ABRAHAMS on
Option 4 requires calculating impacts for both the Baseline Building and the Proposed Building in the following 6 categories:
Is Athena Impact Estimator databses is recommende for South Asia
Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessmentposted 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
embodied energy
Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessmentposted 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.
Tools and flexibility
Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessmentposted 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.
LCA Question
Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessmentposted 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.
Reference Building – Try #2
Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessmentposted 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.
Whole Building LCA as Innovation in Design point?
Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessmentposted by Alexandra Ramsden on
Two questions: 1) Is it acceptable to submit this as an ID point, outside of the pilot process?
Whole building LCA - embodied and operational impacts
Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessmentposted 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
tools
Pilot-Credits MRpc63:Whole building life cycle assessmentposted by Emmanuel Pauwels on
Is one click LCA an accepted tool to demonstrate compliance with this credit?