Feature from Environmental Building News
March 1, 2002
Sidebar: A Sampling of LCA Tools
BEES ·
www.bfrl.nist.gov/oae/software/bees.html
Easy-to-use, free tool for product-to-product comparisons, based on proprietary, unpublished data.
Athena ·
www.athenasmi.ca
Inventory data tool for comparing assemblies or whole buildings, based primarily on published Canadian data.
ENVEST ·
www.bre.co.uk/sustainable/envest.html
U.K.-based LCA-based building design tool, only addresses whole building, and provides results in highly summarized ‘ecopoints.”
EcoQuantum ·
www.ecoquantum.nl
Dutch LCA-based residential building design tool, only for whole buildings.
SimaPro ·
www.pre.nl
A tool from the Netherlands. The IVAM database of inventory data for building materials is available as an add-on, as is a version with some U.S. data from Franklin Associates.
GaBi ·
www.gabi-software.com
A tool from Germany for LCA practitioners, primarily European data.
TEAM ·
www.netid.com/html/team.html
A tool from France for LCA practitioners, primarily European data.
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