Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society (Melbourne, Australia)
Abstract
LCA is a useful tool to assess the environmental impact of buildings. However, to do so accurately requires availability of regional life cycle inventory data, relevant scaling factors and reliable estimation of variables. This paper reports on how building plans, quantity take-off and scaling factors can be used to build an LCA model of a residential building. AccuRate and SimaPro were used to model the data. It was found that the environmental impact varies substantially with the phase of the building life cycle. Varying building life span affects the robustness of results
