Whole Life Costing and Life-cycle Assessment for Sustainable Building Design

Download or read book Whole Life Costing and Life-cycle Assessment for Sustainable Building Design written by Suzy Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The integration of Whole Life Costing (WLC) and Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) presents a powerful route to improving the sustainability of the construction industry. Combining economic and environmental assessment tools to obtain 'best value' solutions in both financial and environmental terms has the potential to make a significant contribution to achieving sustainable building design. This Digest describes the issues relating to the use of the two tools and goes on to provide examples from a number of recent projects. It has been prepared under DETR Framework Contract 'Common design tools for WLC and LCA'.