Potential and limitations of environmental design with LCA tools

摘要: The built environment has a very high impact on the environment. Architects can largely define environmental building will cause throughout its lifetime through design. Especially choice of material and type construction be influenced in early design stages. To quantify impact, tools for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) are used. This paper discusses results four case studies applying different novel LCA academic courses at universities. show that success highly depends point time during process strategy student pursues. If right tool is used moment matches strategy, it help to improve architectural quality reduce impacts. In most cases however, application did not fit, resulting additional effort tool. consequence, elaboration improvement performance compete against each other. Either suffers or employed late cannot improved. Even if right, strategy. number growing there an adequate available stage. match this requires willingness adapt approach. issue shifted from lack approaches. Tools easily taught seminars. Environmental strategies, have included studios developed entire phase become part education.