Book description
Life Cycle Assessment addresses the dynamic and dialectic of building and ecology, presenting the key theories and techniques surrounding the use of life cycle assessment data and methods.
Architects and construction professionals must assume greater responsibility in helping building owners to understand the implications of making material, manufacturing, and assemblage…
Why read it?
1 author picked Life Cycle Assessment as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
For much of the history of architecture material availability has been a key design concern.
More recently (say the past 50 years) operational energy has become a concern (both socially via codes and individually via cost). We are now in transition to a design landscape where carbon emissions are replacing energy consumption as the currency of concern.
Life Cycle Assessment does an excellent job of bringing the issue of carbon to the forefront and explaining how designers and owners rationally account for the carbon damage inflicted by their buildings. An easy read but not at all simpleminded.
From Alison's list on The best books for environmental schematic design.
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