Life-Cycle Assessment

Life-cycle assessment, LCA, which examines all the environmental effects of a product, or even a building quantitatively during an entire lifecycle, can allow project teams to see the background of the building products. A cradle-to-grave approach, and even further, a cradle-to-cradle approach is used in LCA. This allows the calculation of both the total energy use, and the other environmental consequences resulting from the creation of that material...