Developing a simple life cycle assessment (LCA) tool to assess Climate adaptive buildings

Abstract

Climate change adaptations already identified as a key priority globally. Sustainable building practices like climate adaptive buildings and green buildings are immerged more prominently supporting climate adaptation strategies. A quantitative assessment through scientifically accepted LCA method supports to justify the environmental investments in these new constructions models. Introducing a simple LCA tool assessing the global warming potential calculating through greenhouse house gas emission per selected functional unit supports to find the environmental savings or degradations. Scope can be select to cover both constructing & use phases. LCA outputs will further reinforce the sustainable building initiatives both ecologically and economically.