Four green building programs now have incentives for designers to use LCA to minimize the embodied environmental footprint of new construction. The LCA provisions in LEED®, Green Globes®, the IgCC and CALGreen are easier to achieve than they look.
The ‘Athena Guide to Whole-Building LCA in Green Building Programs’ summarizes and interprets the various program provisions, provides tips on how to incorporate LCA during the building design process, and presents Athena’s supplementary best-practice recommendations for performing whole-building LCA in general.
