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Athena Guide to Whole-building LCA in Green Building Programs

 

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.

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