Last modified: 2014-09-11
Abstract
(LCA) as a tool for the assessment of building components and analyzes its
application in the environmental certification system of buildings LEED.
We considered the LEED version 3 for New Constructions and Major
Renovations compared to the new principles approached in the LEED for
Building Design and Construction version 4, to be released in 2013. A
summary table was built as well as a discussion on the environmental
assessment methods used by these certification systems. The analysis
revealed that the version 3 uses exclusively the assessment by the
recognition of product attributes, such as cost, durability, renewability and
recycled content, while the new version already shows some approaches
based in life cycle thinking.
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