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Life cycle assessment report : Chemistry building UBC

University of British Columbia. Sustainability Office

This life cycle assessment of the Chemistry building at the University of British Columbia is an study to analyze environmental impacts. The information gathered in this study will be used to make future sustainable decisions at UBC. The scope of this study only includes the manufacturing and construction phases, also known as Cradle-to-gate analysis. OnScreen takeoff and Athena's Impact Estimator were used to model and catalogue the materials and impacts from the Chemistry building. An output from the Impact Estimator is the bill of materials, which encompasses all the material quantities. The environmental effects of the materials are then studied to determine what impacts the Chemistry building had during it's initial life stages. A sensitivity analysis was also performed to understand what effect each of the top five most used materials individually have on the environment. This analysis highlights which materials should be switch for alternatives in order to mitigate environmental impacts. Lastly a building performance model was used to investigate what effects improving the building's envelope would have. This model compares the current envelope system to a system that meets a UBC standard and investigates how long the building would have to be in operation to see a return on the initial building envelope improvements. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”

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University of British Columbia. CIVL 498; UBC Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Student Report

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0108646

Applied Science, Faculty of; Civil Engineering, Department of

Unreviewed

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