LEADER 03789nam 2200505I 450 001 9910706911603321 005 20180502085820.0 035 $a(CKB)5470000002460366 035 $a(OCoLC)1033602753 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000002460366 100 $a20180502j201802 ua 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLife cycle assessment and environmental building declaration for the design building at the University of Massachusetts /$fHongmei Gu, Richard Bergman 210 1$aMadison, WI :$cUnited States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory,$dFebruary 2018. 215 $a1 online resource (71 pages) $ccolor illustrations 225 1 $aGeneral technical report ;$vFPL-GTR-255 300 $a"February 2018." 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 3 $aWith 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. 606 $aForest products$xEnvironmental aspects$zMassachusetts$zAmherst 606 $aBuilding, Wooden$xEnvironmental aspects$zMassachusetts$zAmherst 606 $aLife cycle costing$zMassachusetts$zAmherst 606 $aProduct life cycle$zMassachusetts$zAmherst 606 $aLeadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System 606 $aBuildings$zMassachusetts$zAmherst 608 $aTechnical reports.$2lcgft 615 0$aForest products$xEnvironmental aspects 615 0$aBuilding, Wooden$xEnvironmental aspects 615 0$aLife cycle costing 615 0$aProduct life cycle 615 0$aLeadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System. 615 0$aBuildings 700 $aGu$b Hongmei$01394092 702 $aBergman$b Richard$g(Richard D.), 712 02$aForest Products Laboratory (U.S.), 801 0$bGPO 801 1$bGPO 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910706911603321 996 $aLife cycle assessment and environmental building declaration for the design building at the University of Massachusetts$93450932 997 $aUNINA