AE 6460 - Life Cycle Assessment of Building Systems

• Understand how the tools of Life Cycle Inventory (LCI), Life Cycle Impacts Assessment (LCIA), and Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) are useful when planning and designing a green building or green infrastructure project
• Understand the basic elements required when performing an ISO I4040 compliant Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA)
• Perform a Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) on a building or infrastructure system
• Perform a Life Cycle Impacts Assessment (LCIA) on a building or infrastructure system
• Identify common risks and liabilities associated with a green infrastructure or building project and assign costs associated with such risks and liabilities
• Perform a Life Cycle Cost Assessment on a building or infrastructure project, accounting for uncertainties associated with future costs and discount rates using Monte Carlo simulation techniques

• Building systems

• What is Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)?
• Designing for sustainability
• ISO 14040 Standards for LCA
• Quantifying environmental impacts
• Life Cycle Cost Analysis
• Risks and liabilities associated with building and infrastructure projects
• Deterministic vs. stochastic LCCA Models
• How to use Monte Carlo simulations
• LCA case studies