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Apr 26, 2012
Integrating Life Cycle and Carbon Assessments: What Life Cycle Assessment Can Teach Structural Engineers about Design and Specification
Publication: Structures Congress 2011
Abstract
Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) is the method which most fully accounts for the environmental impacts of structures. The method provides feedback for our engineering design and specification choices. Three case studies will demonstrate how LCA was used in different ways to answer different questions structural engineers had in the desire to reduce the environmental impacts of their projects. One uses Athena® EcoCalculator for an existing building while the other two studies employ LCA outside of currently available software models for new structures.
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Structures Congress 2011
Pages: 495 - 506
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© 2011 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Buildings
- Business management
- Carbon fibers
- Case studies
- Construction engineering
- Construction management
- Design (by type)
- Education
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering materials (by type)
- Existing buildings
- Fibers
- Life cycles
- Materials engineering
- Methodology (by type)
- Practice and Profession
- Project management
- Research methods (by type)
- Structural design
- Structural engineering
- Structures (by type)
- Teaching methods
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Arup, 560 Mission Street, Floor 7, San Francisco, CA 94105.E-mail: [email protected]
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