[Greenbuilding] LCA tool (was Re: embodied energy was Polyiso strength on roof

[RT]

On Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:52:01 -0500, Norbert Senf <norbert.senf at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Better to compare total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of ahouse  
> using a specific wall (or roof) assembly, which includes the
> EE


Aye laddie, ah ahg-r-r-rree 101.5%.

And an excellent tool for doing that is available from the gewd folks at  
the Athena Institute

http://www.athenasmi.org/

copied from its website:

	"The Athena Impact Estimator for Buildings
          is an LCA-based software package that helps
          designers easily incorporate environmental
          information while in the early stages of a project."

These are the same folks who developed the most excellent "OPTIMIZE" LCA  
program back in the previous millennium, which was described in detail on  
this list back then so I won't repeat myself now. Back then, they used to  
be based just outside of Ottawa on a back road near Alexandria. I thought  
that was pretty kewl.

But speaking of styrofoam houses...

One of my neighbours just bought a property on Deer Island in New  
Brunswick (straddling the border with the State of Maine)and he was  
telling me about a huge styrofoam house that an Murrican had started  
building on a waterfront property on Campobello Is or in the Annapolis  
Basin just across the Bay of Fundy from Deer Is. (I forget which, it was  
over a month ago that he was telling me about it)

Seems the locals hated that house so much that trashed the thing  
repeatedly and the owner ended up abandoning it-- walked away and never  
came back. Moral of the story ? Beats me.

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