Incorporating life cycle assessment into the LEED Green Building rating system

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dc.contributor.authorOptis, Michael
dc.contributor.supervisorWild, Peter
dc.contributor.supervisorShaw, Karena
dc.date.accessioned2008-08-12T23:57:06Z
dc.date.available2008-08-12T23:57:06Z
dc.date.copyright2008en_US
dc.date.issued2008-08-12T23:57:06Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Mechanical Engineering
dc.degree.levelMaster of Applied Science M.A.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractReused, recycled and regional product criteria within the LEED Green Building rating system are not based on comprehensive environmental assessments and do not ensure a measurable and consistent reduction of environmental burdens. A life cycle assessment (LCA) was conducted for the LEED-certified Medical Sciences Building at the University of Victoria to illustrate how LCA can be used to improve these criteria. It was found that a lack of public LCA data for building products, insufficient reporting transparency and inconsistent data collection methodologies prevent a full incorporation of LCA into LEED. At present, LCA data can be used to determine what building products are generally associated with the highest environmental burdens per unit cost and thus require separate LEED criteria. Provided its deficiencies are rectified in the future, LCA can be fully incorporated into LEED to design environmental burden-based criteria that ensure a measurable and consistent reduction of environmental burdens.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/1059
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectlife cycle assessment
dc.subjectLEED
dc.subjectLCA
dc.subjectbuildings
dc.subjectenvironmental performance
dc.subjectenergy
dc.subjectcarbon dioxide emissions
dc.subjectInstitute for Integrated Energy Systems (IESVic)
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Sciences and Engineering::Engineering::Environmental engineeringen_US
dc.titleIncorporating life cycle assessment into the LEED Green Building rating systemen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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