4.4 Comparison of Building Design and Decision-support Tools Considering the principal goal of this research, this section covers the comparison of the BLCA in Level 2 of the ATHENA classification, which is equivalent to Class 2 of the IEA Annex 31 (environmental LCA tools for buildings and building stocks). This level is defined as building design or ‘whole tools’ (Trusty, 2000, Haapio and Viitaniemi, 2008b), and includes: ATHENA™, BEAT 2002, BeCost, Eco-Quantum, Envest 2, EQUER, LEGEP® and PAPOOSE (Table 4.1). Table 4.1: Whole building design and decision-support tools (Haapio and Viitaniemi, 2008) Name Developer References ATHENA Institute (2003); ATHENA™ ATHENA Sustainable ATHENA™(2007); DOE Environmental Materials (1996/2006a); Impact Estimator Institute; Canada Trusty and Meil (2002a,b) BEAT (2002 ); Forsberg and Danish Building von Malmborg (2004); BEAT 2002 Research Institute Hansen (2005); IEA Annex (SBI), Denmark 31 (2001); Petersen (2002) BeCost (previously BeCost; (2004); IEA VTT, Finland known as LCA-house) Annex 31 (2001)
4.4 Comparison of Building Design and Decision-support Tools Considering the principal goal of this research, this section covers the comparison of the BLCA in Level 2 of the ATHENA classification, which is equivalent to Class 2 of the IEA Annex 31 (environmental LCA tools for buildings and building stocks). This level is defined as ‘whole building design or tools’ (Trusty, 2000, Haapio and Viitaniemi, 2008b), and includes: ATHENA™, BEAT 2002, BeCost, Eco-Quantum, Envest 2, EQUER, LEGEP® and PAPOOSE (Table 4.1). Table 4.1: Whole building design and decision-support tools (Haapio and Viitaniemi, 2008) Name Developer References ATHENA™ Environmental Impact Estimator ATHENA Sustainable Materials Institute; Canada ATHENA Institute (2003); ATHENA™(2007); DOE (1996/2006a); Trusty and Meil (2002a,b) BEAT 2002 Danish Building Research Institute (SBI), Denmark BEAT (2002 ); Forsberg and von Malmborg (2004); Hansen (2005); IEA Annex 31 (2001); Petersen (2002) BeCost (previously known as LCA-house) VTT, Finland BeCost; (2004); IEA Annex 31 (2001)
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