03789nam 2200505I 450 991070691160332120180502085820.0(CKB)5470000002460366(OCoLC)1033602753(EXLCZ)99547000000246036620180502j201802 ua 0engurmn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLife cycle assessment and environmental building declaration for the design building at the University of Massachusetts /Hongmei Gu, Richard BergmanMadison, WI :United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory,February 2018.1 online resource (71 pages) color illustrationsGeneral technical report ;FPL-GTR-255"February 2018."Includes bibliographical references.With the world's increasing focus on sustainability in the construction sector through green building systems, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been actively engaged in green building advocacy in the United States through USDA Tall Wood Building competitions and follow-up research on use of mass timber for nonresidential buildings. The USDA Forest Service, Forest Product Laboratory (FPL) funded the study of environmental performance of the pioneer mass timber building (the John W. Olver Design Building) built at University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2016. The Athena Sustainable Materials Institute conducted the whole building life cycle assessment (LCA) using the Impact Estimator for Building software. Secondly, the reported LCA results led to development of an environmental building declaration (EBD) in conformance with European standard EN 15978. Environmental building declarations summarize the embodied and operational environmental impacts during the full building life cycle. An EBD is much like an environmental product declaration (EPD) which is intended for marketing and educational use, but instead of covering individual products like an EPD, an EBD covers the whole building. Lastly, the LCA results of the Design Building were then compared with a functionally equivalent steel and concrete building to acquire the whole building LCA credit in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) v.4 for green buildings. With the mass timber use in the Design Building, the building qualified for the whole building LCA credit in LEED v4. With this project, FPL is helping to standardize environmental performance reporting and advanced mass timber building sustainability.Forest productsEnvironmental aspectsMassachusettsAmherstBuilding, WoodenEnvironmental aspectsMassachusettsAmherstLife cycle costingMassachusettsAmherstProduct life cycleMassachusettsAmherstLeadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating SystemBuildingsMassachusettsAmherstTechnical reports.lcgftForest productsEnvironmental aspectsBuilding, WoodenEnvironmental aspectsLife cycle costingProduct life cycleLeadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System.BuildingsGu Hongmei1394092Bergman Richard(Richard D.),Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.),GPOGPOBOOK9910706911603321Life cycle assessment and environmental building declaration for the design building at the University of Massachusetts3450932UNINA