CVE 6881 - Life Cycle Assessment of Building and Infrastructure Systems

• Understand the basic elements required when performing an ISO 14040 compliant Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA)
• Understand the basic elements of the Economic Input Output (EIO) method for quantifying environmental life cycle impacts
• 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 and quantify social impacts of a building or infrastructure system project
• Perform a Life Cycle Cost Assessment on a building or infrastructure project, accounting for uncertainties associated with future costs and discount rates
• Synthesize LCIA, LCC, and social impact score techniques to create a model for comparing TBL outcomes of two or more projects

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• Introduction to the ISO 14040 Life Cycle Assessment protocols and methodology
• Introduction to the Economic Input Output (EIO) method
• Review of life cycle cost modeling using the net present value technique
• Strategies for quantifying uncertainties in the life cycle cost modelling of green building and infrastructure projects
• How LCA is incorporated into common green rating systems such as LEED, Green Globes, and Envision
• Social Impact scores and the Triple Bottom Line (TBL)
• Introduction to the OpenLCA software package for LCIA modelling
• Building and infrastructure case studies of life cycle assessment and life cycle cost modeling