Conference paper
A National Building Products Inventory
Sustainability Measures for Decision Support, pp.1-12
Australian Life Cycle Assessment Conference, 4th (Sydney, Australia, 23-Feb-2005 - 25-Feb-2005)
Australian Life Cycle Assesment Society
2005
Abstract
Australia has no nationally accepted building products life cycle inventory (LCI) database for use in building Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) assessment (BEA) tools. More information about the sustainability of the supply chain is limited by industry's lack of real capacity to deliver objective information on process and product environmental impact. Recognition of these deficits emerged during compilation of a National LCI database to inform LCADesign, a prototype 3 dimensional object oriented computer aided design (3-D CAD) commercial building design tool. Development of this Australian LCI represents 24 staff years of effort here since 1995. Further development of LCADesign extensions is proposed as being essential to support key applications demanded from a more holistic theoretical framework calling for modules of new building and construction industry tools. A proposed tool, conceptually called LCADetails, is to serve the building product industries own needs as well as that of commercial building design amongst other industries' prospective needs. In this paper, a proposition is examined that the existing national LCI database should be further expanded to serve Australian building product industries' needs as well as to provide details for its client-base from a web based portal containing a module of practical supply and procurement applications. Along with improved supply chain assessment services, this proposed portal is envisaged to facilitate industry environmental life cycle improvement assessment and support decision-making to provide accredited data for operational reporting capabilities, load-based reasoning as well as BEA applications. This paper provides an overview of developments to date, including a novel 3-D CAD information and communications technology (ICT) platform for more holistic integration of existing tools for true cost assessment. Further conceptualisation of future prospects, based on a new holistic life cycle assessment framework LCADevelop, considering stakeholder relationships and their need for a range of complementary tools leveraging automated function off such ICT platforms to inform dimensionally defined operations for such as automotive, civil, transport and industrial applications are also explored.
Details
- Title
- A National Building Products Inventory
- Authors
- Penelope Mitchell (Author) - University of QueenslandDelwyn Jones (Author) - Cooperative Research Centre for Construction InnovationPhillipa Watson (Author) - Cooperative Research Centre for Construction InnovationDavid Johnson (Author) - Cooperative Research Centre for Construction InnovationSeongwon Seo (Author) - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- Publication details
- Sustainability Measures for Decision Support, pp.1-12
- Conference details
- Australian Life Cycle Assessment Conference, 4th (Sydney, Australia, 23-Feb-2005 - 25-Feb-2005)
- Publisher
- Australian Life Cycle Assesment Society
- Organisation Unit
- National Centre for Timber Durability and Design Life
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99735294502621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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