THURSDAY, JANUARY 12,
2006
Life Cycle Analysis
:
Applications and
Implications for the Design of Greener Buildings
TONIGHT’S EVENT IS
PRESENTED BY NYSERDA,
THE
NEW
YORK
STATE
Introduction: NYSERDA
Speaker: Wayne Trusty,
President,
Athena Sustainable Materials Institute and Athena
Institute
International
LECTURE
TOPICS:
- Demonstration of the critical need to shift from prescriptive to environmental performance measures and approaches to green building in North America.
- How life cycle assessment (LCA) offers the best prospect for establishing and achieving true environmental performance measures.
- A primer on the essence of LCA from a non-practitioner's perspective, including LCA methods, terminology and data sources.
- A simple tools classification system, how these tools interrelate and where they fit into the green design process.
- An update on work underway to introduce LCA into green building rating systems.
- A discussion of the complexity of applying LCA techniques to buildings because of the interrelationships of products in a building systems context, given the nature of a building's life cycle. How all of the individual building products and elements are subject to LCA, and so too is the building as a whole.
- PLUS, a presentation of the complimentary subject of green building economics and the role of life cycle costing.
Program Sponsors: Benjamin Moore, C/S
Group, Forbo, Lutron Electronics, NYSERDA, The New York Real Estate Journal,
Tate Access Floors and Zumtobel Staff Lighting.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY:
Wayne Trusty is President of the Athena
Sustainable Materials Institute and its U.S. affiliate, Athena Institute
International, and was recently appointed as an Adjunct Associate Professor on
the University of Calgary's Faculty of Environmental Design. Mr. Trusty has
helped to develop the Athena Institute's worldwide reputation in the field of
sustainable building and life cycle assessment (LCA) by championing its
knowledge and expertise through groundbreaking software, world-class LCA
databases and customized consulting services. The not-for-profit Institute is a
leading source of data, expertise and tools for designing buildings with the
environment in mind. (www.athenasmi.ca)
Mr. Trusty is a Vice Chair of the Board of the Canada
Green Building Council, and a member of the board of the Green Building
Initiative. The Athena Institute is also a member of the US Green Building
Council, where Wayne serves on the LEED Resources and Materials Technical
Advisory Group and the LEED New Construction Steering Committee. He is past
chairman of an international technical committee examining the use of LCA with
regard to building materials and products, and recently served as a member of
the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Materials Flow Accounting.
He holds an MA in Economics from the University of Western
Ontario.