2. Impact Estimator Highways and Buildings Impact Estimator Highways and Buildings Rob Sianchuk, MASc Director de Desarrollo de Negocios Coldstream Consulting Ltd. rob.sianchuk@coldstreamconsulting.com November 8, 2013

3. 1.Life cycle approaches 2.Driving demand 3.Designing with LCA and LCC 4.Professional Development Presentation Outline

4. 1. What is a life cycle approach?

5. – Different Metrics, Different Methods – life cycle assessment life cycle costing Both are Life Cycle Approaches

6. UNEP/SETAC Sustainability Framework LCA ModelingFinancial Modeling Financial Security Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) Environmental Management Decisions Environmental Security Financial Statements Financial Management Decisions

7. Resources Energy Air Water Land Inventory AnalysisImpact Assessment Investment Costs kg CO2 eq NPV CAD$ ?

8. kg SO2 eq kg PM10 eq kg N eq kg O3 eq kg CFC-11 eq kg CO2 eq NPV CAD$ Resources Energy Air Water Land Investment Costs Inventory AnalysisImpact Assessment

9. 2.What is driving demand? – Codes and Standards – Organizational Initiatives – Infrastructure Deficit

10. LEED v.4 Green Globes International Green Construction Code ISO 21931-1 Living Building Challenge Construction Industry Demand: Codes and Standards

11. Olympic Games Impact (OGI) Studies En 27: Life-cycle Inventory of Olympic and Paralympic Venues Natural Resources Canada Federal Sustainable Development Strategy includes assessment of embodied carbon University of British Columbia inclusion of LCA in request for information from architects and consulting teams Construction Industry Demand: Organizational Initiatives

12. Construction Industry Demand: Infrastructure Deficit North America has a significant infrastructure deficit Mostly built between 1950’s and the 1970’s Living in a resource constrained world Slower growing economy Aging population – smaller tax base Larger population drawing on fewer natural resources Implications Need to do more with less Focus on life cycle performance

13. 3.Designing with LCA and LCC – District Energy Center – Moving towards EPDs – Impact Estimator for Highways

14. 3.Designing with LCA and LCC – District Energy Center To manage environmental and economic costs with integrated LCA-LCC. Earn LEED Innovation & Design credits

15. Elemental Cost Analysis Financial Modeling format used by Canadian Quantity Surveyors to do Life Cycle Costing (LCC). Reference Design! Life Cycle Assessment tool use.

16. Building design - geometry and materials with integrated LCA-LCC results.

17. Element Design Scenarios ElementUnit Rates per m 2 B11 Partitions Economic Unit Rate (CAD$) Fossil Fuel Consumption (MJ) Global Warming (kg CO2eq) Acidification (moles of H+eq) Human Health Criteria – Respiratory (kg PM10eq) Eutrophic- ation (kg Neq) Ozone Layer Depletion (kg CFC- 11eq) Smog (kg O3eq) Hybrid Design 99mm and 239mm CLT, and 200mm cast-in-place concrete walls $ XXX Steel Design 200mm CMU walls $ XXX Elemental design

18. low high Global Warming Potential (kg CO2 eq) Direct Costs (NPV $) Elemental design - geometry and materials with integrated LCA-LCC results.

19. Learning Outcomes Design Team Engagement Kick off Integrated Design Process Clarify design goals Set expectations and information needs Develop standards and benchmarks for reference designs What is a fair comparison?

20. 3.Designing with LCA and LCC – District Energy Center – Moving towards EPDs

21. 3.Designing with LCA and LCC – District Energy Center – Moving towards EPDs Supply Alignment – Impact Categories – Process Information Modules Usability

22. Recognized product standards. Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) Programs

23. Concrete EPDs

24. Functional Unit: performance related reference to which input and output data are normalized Reference Flow: outputs from system required to fulfill the function expressed by the functional unit. Intermediate Flow: output from a process that is input to other process that requires further transformation within system. Building (or Building Element) Express LCA and LCC results – per whole building – per m 2 floor area – (or per m 2 building element) Construction Products

25. Modular information structure EN 15978 and 15804 Building System Boundary

26. EPD Publication Experience – Softwood Lumber – Softwood Plywood – Oriented Strand board – Glue Laminated Timbers – Laminated Veneer Lumber – Wood I-Joists – Redwood Decking Useability of pdfs?

27. 3.Designing with LCA and LCC – District Energy Center – Moving towards EPDs – Impact Estimator for Highways

28. 3.Designing with LCA and LCC – District Energy Center – Moving towards EPDs – Impact Estimator for Highways Background Supporting Data Modeling Capabilities

29. Impact Estimator for Highways – Developed by the Athena Sustainable Materials Institute. – Funded by Cement Association of Canada and Environment Canada with technical engineering expertise from Morrison Hershfield. – Can be used to create LCA model of any type of roadway cross-sectional design.

30. Impact Estimator for Highways – 100+ roadway materials in the database. Base, Sub-base and surface materials (flexible & rigid) Rigid – General use (GU) and blended cements (PLC) Flexible – Hot mix asphalt (HMA) and Warm mix asphalt (WMA) – User can create and save customized product mixes supply transportation modes and distances

31. Impact Estimator for Highways – 30+ large construction equipment profiles in the database customizable to reflect regional/seasonal working conditions and usage rates.

32. Roadway Design

33. Rehabilitation Schedule

34. Pavement Vehicle Interaction (PVI)

35. http://web.mit.edu/cshub/news/pdf/PVI_Report-2012.pdf Pavement Vehicle Interaction (PVI)

36. http://www.athenasmi.org It’s free!

37. Comes with Sample Projects.

38. See results for Impact Assessment, and Inventory Analysis.

39. Create different roadway design scenarios and compare.

40. 4.Professional development – Civil engineering course at University of British Columbia – Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia

41. CIVL 498C Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment 4 th year Civil Eng technical elective Established in January 2009* Attended by undergraduate and graduate architecture and engineering students from civil, mechanical, materials, environmental, chemical and mining specializations 2008/2009 2009/2010 2010/2011 2011/2012 2012/2013

43. 1.Life cycle approaches 2.Driving demand 3.Designing with LCA and LCC 4.Professional Development Presentation Outline

44. kg SO2 eq kg PM10 eq kg N eq kg O3 eq kg CFC-11 eq kg CO2 eq NPV CAD$ Resources Energy Air Water Land Investment Costs Inventory AnalysisImpact Assessment

45. UNEP/SETAC Sustainability Framework LCA ModelingFinancial Modeling Financial Security Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) Environmental Management Decisions Environmental Security Financial Statements Financial Management Decisions EPDs Inventory Analysis

46. Impact Estimator Highways and Buildings Impact Estimator Highways and Buildings Rob Sianchuk, MASc Director de Desarrollo de Negocios Coldstream Consulting Ltd. rob.sianchuk@coldstreamconsulting.com November 8, 2013

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