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Life Cycle Assessment report Thunderbird Old Arena

University of British Columbia. Sustainability Office

Prior to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics several structures were built for recreational purposes. A life cycle assessment (LCA) was carried out on two of the event arenas built for the 2010 Winter Olympics. One of the sites, the Thunderbird Arena was a renovation of an existing recreational complex. The LCA presented in this report is for the pre-existing complex, which consists of three main buildings. The scope focuses on the materials manufacturing and the construction of the buildings (i.e. maintenance and usage are disregarded) and the results were used to compare the impacts of the materials used during construction to aid with future design decisions. Modeling was conducted using On-Screen Takeoff 3 and Athena Impact Estimator (IE) software. These tools allowed for a Bill of Materials (BoM) to be generated as well as characterisations of the total environmental impacts due to materials manufacturing, building construction, and transportation. The TRACI method was used to report values on fossil fuel consumption, weighted resource use, global warming potential, acidification potential, human health respiratory, eutrophication potential, ozone depletion, and smog potential. It was found from the BoM that the top 5 materials used during the construction were aggregate rock, rebar, galvanized sheeting, steel tubing, and concrete block. A sensitivity analysis was then run on the materials to determine the change in impacts based off a 10% increase in each case. It was found that the most significant change in impact on construction was the 10% increase in rebar. [Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”]

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University of British Columbia. CIVL 498; UBC Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Student Report

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0077964

Applied Science, Faculty of; Civil Engineering, Department of

Unreviewed

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