The Building Products Innovation Council developed the Building Products Life Cycle Inventory (BP LCI) to serve the national interest in improving the impact of the built environment. It is a freely available service developed and maintained by the building industry. It provides a nationally consistent and scientifically reliable method and database for conducting Life Cycle Assessment of building products.The following Fifth Estate articles report progress.
The Building Products Innovation Council’s Life Cycle Inventory raises the bar
The bar for sustainable construction has just been raised. Australia now has the first scientifically reliable and independently validated database for life cycle assessment of building products and its developers say the impact will be impressive.
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Building products LCI under pressure
Edge Environment managing director, Nigel Howard, says that one of the problems is that people haven’t realised what it is yet. We haven’t done a good enough job of explaining it and there’s work to be done there.
The real test of the database is whether LCA tools and labels make use of it, he says. This includes LCA tool developers such as GABI and SIMAPro, and eco certification schemes such as Good Environmental Choice Australia, or GECA, and Ecospecifier’s Green Tag.
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