- Author
- Lippiatt, B. C. | Norris, G. A.
- Title
- Selecting Environmentally and Economically Balanced Building Materials.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NIST SP 888, August 1995,
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Book or Conf
- OECD Green Goods IV: International Conference on Greener Public Purchasing. Proceedings. Beil, Switzerland. 77-87 pp, February 1997 AND Public Technology, Inc. and U.S. Green Building Council. Selecting Environmentally and Economically Balanced Building Materials. Reprinted as Chapter 2 of Sustainable Building Technology Manual: Green Building Design, Construction, and Operations. Economics and Environment. Part 1. Chapter 2, Gottfried, D., Editors, 1.13-1.19 pp, June 1996 AND National Institute of Standards and Technology. Green Building Conference and Exposition, 2nd International. Proceedings. 1995, Gaithersburg, MD, Fanney, A. H.; Whitter, K. M.,; Cohn, T. B., Editors, 37-46 pp, 1995, ['1997', '1996', '1996']
- Keywords
- building technology | building materials | environmental performance | green buildings | impact assessment | impact evaluation | inventory analysis | life cycle assessment | life cycle costing | multi-attribute decisions
- Abstract
- The building community wants to move toward the use of building materials with improved environmental performance at little or no increase in cost. A methodology for evaluating the environmental and economic performance of building materials is described. This methodology is being implemented in decision support software that will access a publicly available database of environmental and economic performance data for building materials. The software will assist designers and manufacturers in comparing the environmental/economic performance of alternative building materials. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is collaborating with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in this effort.