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Using Life Cycle Resources to
Look at a Product’s History from
Cradle-to-Cradle
Deborah Dunning, President
International Design Center for the Environment
How do product standards
and metrics help You?
They provide you with a
means of comparing the
environmental attributes of
both like and unlike products,
potentially reducing the
footprint of a campus building
How will life-cycle resources
help you manage buildings effectively?
Create a third-party certified source for communicating
the economic and environmental benefits of products
to your team members and budget professionals
What Suite of Tools Might You Use?
• Economic Benefits Standards of Green Buildings and Products
developed by Market Transformation to Sustainability (MTS)
• LEED Green Building Standards of the US Green Building Council
• BEES ®, a full-scale Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool developed
by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• eLCieTM (tm) a streamlined Life-Cycle Assessment (sLCA) tool
developed by the International Design Center for the Environment
Economic Benefits Standard
Capturing Increasing Profits
Economic Benefits Standard
§ 7.2 Sustainable buildings increase productivity by 5%.
This increase in productivity is at least equal to a building’s capital
And operations and maintenance costs over a building’s life averaged
at 30 years.
Source: U. S. Green Building Council, 1996
Sustainable Buildings
Reduce Human Health Costs
• On average, annualized costs for personnel are $200/sf
compared with $20/sf for bricks-mortar, $2/sf for energy
• $14/sf savings for a typical 100,000 sf LEED certified
green building, totaling $1.4 million in savings/year
Source: Indoor Quality Update, October 1996
Economic Benefits Standard
§ 7.1
Sustainable buildings reduce operating costs by 50% and
are more profitable and cheaper than conventional ones.
Value Added from 100,000 ft² US Green Building Council
LEED™ Certified Building:
• $80,000/yr in energy costs through the use of 10 different efficiencies
• $93,000 through waste reduction, keeping 186 tons out of the landfill
• $44,000/yr from avoided wastewater treatment from conserved water
• $53,368/yr through the use of energy efficient appliances and lighting
• $1.4m/yr from $14/ft² savings from 6% productivity gain (USGBC
TManual)
Projected Economic Stimulus by 70% Commercial Green Building
Market Penetration
Energy Savings:
$36 billion/yr
Construction Waste Reduction:
$6.7 billion/yr
Water Pollution Savings from Water Conservation:
$20 billion/yr
Energy Savings from appliances & Lighting:
Increased Occupant Productivity:
Increased Retail Sales:
Total
$24 billion/yr
$632 billion/yr
$800 billion/yr
$1.5 trillion/yr value added
Economic Benefits Standard Ballot Completed
§1.9
Positive Correlation of Sustainable Performance
and Superior Economic Performance
Economic Benefits Standard
§1.9 Sustainable products, buildings, & vehicles are
more profitable than conventional ones by creating
more value through:
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Margin improvement
Risk reduction
Growth enhancement
Capital efficiency
§5.2 Increased profitability for products due to:
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Reduced liability
Fewer regulatory constraints
Faster product time to market
Improved corporate good will, brand, competitive advantage
Documented public demand due to global health and
environmental benefits
Reduced costs for raw materials and manufacturing
BEES ® Life Cycle
Assessment System
• Developed by the National Institute of Standards
& Technology (NIST), U. S. Dept of Commerce
• Provides performance score for a product’s
economic performance and environmental
performance, both in the aggregate and
environmental impact by environmental impact
BEES ® Life Cycle
Assessment System
• Includes all of the 12 environmental impacts
identified by the EPA Science Advisory Board
• Global warming, acid rain, smog, eutrophication,
fossil fuel depletion, indoor air quality, habitat
alteration, water use, human health, ozone
depletion, criteria air pollutants, eco-toxicity
What is the difference between
BEES ® and eLCie (tm)?
“Full LCAs are expensive, complicated and their results
are difficult to communicate. eLCie (tm) is designed to
address these issues by streamlining the LCA approach
to establish simpler-to-measure and simpler-tocommunicate environmental “key attributes” for product
categories… This streamlined LCA approach adds value
to traditional LCA tools by consolidating their results and
simplifying their interpretation” – Barbara Lippiatt, BEES
eLCie (tm) Building a Sustainable World
• A streamlined life-cycle assessment (sLCA) system
• A science-based yet user-friendly web-tool for
comparing a product’s environmental impacts
• A simple-to-measure and simple-to communicate means
of looking at a product from cradle-to-cradle
eLCie™
Using eLCie (tm) during the programming phase
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>> PRODUCT TYPE SUMMARIES
>> LEVEL UP
AGGREGATE
80% TOTAL
Floorings
 Plastic
 Bamboo
 Terrazzo
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 Brick
 Granite
 Marble
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 Wood
 Cork
 Linoleum
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 Rubber
 Broadloom
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 Carpet Tile
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Global
warming
Fossil fuel
depletion
Water
depletion
Ecological
toxicity
Human
health
Smog
Criteria air
pollutants
Impact Categories
LINOLEUM
0.0454
BROADLOOM
0.0353
CARPET TILE
0.0253
Key Indicator Values
MARBLE
0.0063
TERRAZZO
0.0037
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eLCie™
Using eLCie (tm) during the design development phase
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>> COMPARE BRAND PRODUCTS
>> LEVEL UP
Global
warming
AGGREGATE
80% TOTAL
Floorings
 Plastic
 Bamboo
 Terrazzo
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 Brick
 Granite
 Marble
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 Wood
 Cork
 Linoleum
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 Rubber
 Broadloom
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 Carpet Tile
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Fossil fuel
depletion
Water
depletion
Ecological
toxicity
Human
health
Smog
Criteria air
pollutants
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LINOLEUM
0.0454
BROADLOOM
0.0353
J&J LifeSpan
0.0286
 Compare two brand products within different product types
 e.g. carpet vs linoleum product
CARPET TILE
0.0253
0.0246
Forbo NoVOC
0.0230
0.0197
MARBLE
0.0063
TERRAZZO
0.0037
0.0051
0.0038
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eLCie ™ Simplifies Sustainable Product Selection
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Reduces time spent on researching and verifying
product attributes by purchasers
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Identifies “key attributes” which justify choice of one
product over another easily and quickly
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Uses language which is easily understood by
designers and other volume purchasers
Can eLCie™ Be Used With Other Tools?
eLCie™ results can be used as:
• The basis for product specification or selection
• A performance level in other 3rd party standards
Why is this important?
“The future belongs to those
who give the next generation
Reason to hope.”
-de Chardon