Abstract
AbstractAs comprehensive sustainable design methods advance, whole-building life-cycle assessment (LCA) is becoming an important part of sustainable practices. The goal of this research is to evaluate the LCA tool Tally to establish a baseline process for LCA based on building information modelling (BIM). In order to generate benchmarks for whole-building LCA, the architecture, engineering, and construction industry must agree with the United States (US) government on a standard method of measuring embodied carbon in conjunction with a design tool. This paper involves a literature review and two case studies as a comparative software analysis between two whole-building LCA tools: the Autodesk-Revit-based Tally plugin and the Athena Impact Estimator (IE). The case studies include two different unit spaces – walls only in Case 1 and walls, windows, doors, floors, and roof in Case 2 – that were analysed in Tally and the Athena IE to compare the user input parameters, outputs, life-cycle inventory (LCI) datab...
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