Critical Issues When Comparing Whole Building & Building Product Environmental Performance
Guides, standards, product category rules, and environmental product declarations have emerged to evaluate environmental impacts within the buildings sector. These efforts have certainly moved the field forward, but as of yet still do not ensure comparability among building products or whole buildin...
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| author | Miller, T. Reed Gregory, Jeremy Kirchain, Randolph |
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| description | Guides, standards, product category rules, and environmental product declarations have emerged to evaluate environmental impacts within the buildings sector. These efforts have certainly moved the field forward, but as of yet still do not ensure comparability among building products or whole buildings. In this paper, we aim to address critical issues and make recommendations to practitioners and those developing guidance to enable more robust comparisons of building products and whole buildings. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1048382019-04-10T15:18:59Z Critical Issues When Comparing Whole Building & Building Product Environmental Performance Miller, T. Reed Gregory, Jeremy Kirchain, Randolph Buildings Residential Buildings Building LCA Life Cycle Assessment Environmental Performance Building Materials Construction Residential Construction Guides, standards, product category rules, and environmental product declarations have emerged to evaluate environmental impacts within the buildings sector. These efforts have certainly moved the field forward, but as of yet still do not ensure comparability among building products or whole buildings. In this paper, we aim to address critical issues and make recommendations to practitioners and those developing guidance to enable more robust comparisons of building products and whole buildings. This research was carried out by CSHub@MIT with sponsorship provided by the Portland Cement Association and the Ready Mixed Concrete Research & Education Foundation. CSHub@MIT is solely responsible for content. 2016-10-17T14:20:29Z 2016-10-17T14:20:29Z 2016-10-17 Technical Report http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104838 en_US application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Buildings Residential Buildings Building LCA Life Cycle Assessment Environmental Performance Building Materials Construction Residential Construction Miller, T. Reed Gregory, Jeremy Kirchain, Randolph Critical Issues When Comparing Whole Building & Building Product Environmental Performance |
| title | Critical Issues When Comparing Whole Building & Building Product Environmental Performance |
| title_full | Critical Issues When Comparing Whole Building & Building Product Environmental Performance |
| title_fullStr | Critical Issues When Comparing Whole Building & Building Product Environmental Performance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Critical Issues When Comparing Whole Building & Building Product Environmental Performance |
| title_short | Critical Issues When Comparing Whole Building & Building Product Environmental Performance |
| title_sort | critical issues when comparing whole building building product environmental performance |
| topic | Buildings Residential Buildings Building LCA Life Cycle Assessment Environmental Performance Building Materials Construction Residential Construction |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104838 |
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