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An environmental performance declaration of the mathematics building

University of British Columbia. Campus and Community Planning

This project is a coursework carried out by students of the CIVL 498C technical elective course in Civil Engineering at the University of British Columbia. It is part of a comparative study between the environmental performances of different institutional buildings within the Vancouver Campus, and its results will be used in the UBC LCA Database. In total, 17 buildings were assessed, including Chemistry, Chemistry North, Chemistry South, Henry Angus, Wesbrook, Geography, Earth Sciences, Allard Hall, Forest Science Center, Mathematics, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Music, Lasserre, Pharmacy, Kaiser, Douglas Kenny and AERL. This paper focuses only in the Math building study and it is important to underline that the results presented here are not representative of the original construction of the building in 1925, but a LCA study of the materials and construction methods used. The previous model and report by Nemec and the class notes were base for this study. The previous model was improved and analysed for product and construction stages. OnCenter’s OnScreen Takeoff (OST) and the Athena Sustainable Materials Institute’s Environmental Impact Estimator (EIE) were the softwares used in the modeling. The results showed the efficiency of wood as building material in terms of environmental performance. The total Math building impacts are between 60% and 80% less than the average of the buildings analysed. However, to obtain a complete knowledge of the influence of wood in the environmental performance of buildings, conducting a LCA study through the whole life cycle, including use and end-of-life stages, is fundamental. 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

10.14288/1.0108759

Applied Science, Faculty of; Civil Engineering, Department of

Unreviewed

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