1. Using Life Cycle Resources to Look at a Product’s History from Cradle-to-Cradle Deborah Dunning, President International Design Center for the Environment

2. How do product standards and metrics help You? They provide you with a means of comparing the environmental attributes of both like and unlike products, potentially reducing the footprint of a campus building

3. Create a third-party certified source for communicating the economic and environmental benefits of products to your team members and budget professionals How will life-cycle resources help you manage buildings effectively?

4. What Suite of Tools Might You Use? Economic Benefits Standards of Green Buildings and Products developed by Market Transformation to Sustainability (MTS) LEED Green Building Standards of the US Green Building Council BEES ®, a full-scale Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) eLCie (tm) a streamlined Life-Cycle Assessment (sLCA) tool developed by the International Design Center for the Environment TM

5. Economic Benefits Standard Capturing Increasing Profits

6. Economic Benefits Standard § 7.2 Sustainable buildings increase productivity by 5%. This increase in productivity is at least equal to a building’s capital And operations and maintenance costs over a building’s life averaged at 30 years. Source: U. S. Green Building Council, 1996

7. Sustainable Buildings Reduce Human Health Costs On average, annualized costs for personnel are $200/sf compared with $20/sf for bricks-mortar, $2/sf for energy $14/sf savings for a typical 100,000 sf LEED certified green building, totaling $1.4 million in savings/year Source: Indoor Quality Update, October 1996

8. Economic Benefits Standard § 7.1 Sustainable buildings reduce operating costs by 50% and are more profitable and cheaper than conventional ones.

9. Value Added from 100,000 ft² US Green Building Council LEED™ Certified Building: $80,000/yr in energy costs through the use of 10 different efficiencies $93,000 through waste reduction, keeping 186 tons out of the landfill $44,000/yr from avoided wastewater treatment from conserved water $53,368/yr through the use of energy efficient appliances and lighting $1.4m/yr from $14/ft² savings from 6% productivity gain (USGBC TManual)

10. Projected Economic Stimulus by 70% Commercial Green Building Market Penetration Energy Savings: $36 billion/yr Construction Waste Reduction: $6.7 billion/yr Water Pollution Savings from Water Conservation: $20 billion/yr Energy Savings from appliances & Lighting: $24 billion/yr Increased Occupant Productivity: $632 billion/yr Increased Retail Sales: $800 billion/yr Total $1.5 trillion/yr value added

11. Economic Benefits Standard Ballot Completed § 1.9 Positive Correlation of Sustainable Performance and Superior Economic Performance

12. Economic Benefits Standard §1.9 Sustainable products, buildings, & vehicles are more profitable than conventional ones by creating more value through:  Margin improvement  Risk reduction  Growth enhancement  Capital efficiency

13. §5.2 Increased profitability for products due to: Reduced liability Fewer regulatory constraints Faster product time to market Improved corporate good will, brand, competitive advantage Documented public demand due to global health and environmental benefits Reduced costs for raw materials and manufacturing

14. BEES ® Life Cycle Assessment System Developed by the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), U. S. Dept of Commerce Provides performance score for a product’s economic performance and environmental performance, both in the aggregate and environmental impact by environmental impact

15. BEES ® Life Cycle Assessment System Includes all of the 12 environmental impacts identified by the EPA Science Advisory Board Global warming, acid rain, smog, eutrophication, fossil fuel depletion, indoor air quality, habitat alteration, water use, human health, ozone depletion, criteria air pollutants, eco-toxicity

16. What is the difference between BEES ® and eLCie (tm)? “Full LCAs are expensive, complicated and their results are difficult to communicate. eLCie (tm) is designed to address these issues by streamlining the LCA approach to establish simpler-to-measure and simpler-to- communicate environmental “key attributes” for product categories… This streamlined LCA approach adds value to traditional LCA tools by consolidating their results and simplifying their interpretation” – Barbara Lippiatt, BEES

17. eLCie (tm) Building a Sustainable World A streamlined life-cycle assessment (sLCA) system A science-based yet user-friendly web-tool for comparing a product’s environmental impacts A simple-to-measure and simple-to communicate means of looking at a product from cradle-to-cradle

18. eLCie ™ Using eLCie (tm) during the programming phase Contact | Privacy Policy | Terms and Conditions | Search | Site Index Copyright (c) 2003 IDCE. All Rights Reserved. - -- 0.0400 - -- 0.0300 - -- 0.0200 - -- 0.0100 - -- N/A LINOLEUM 0.0454 BROADLOOM 0.0353 CARPET TILE 0.0253 MARBLE 0.0063 TERRAZZO 0.0037 >> PRODUCT TYPE SUMMARIES >> LEVEL UP Floorings  Plastic  Bamboo  Terrazzo  Brick  Granite  Marble  Wood  Cork  Linoleum  Rubber  Broadloom  Carpet Tile Global warming Fossil fuel depletion Water depletion Ecological toxicity Human health SmogCriteria air pollutants AGGREGATE 80% TOTAL Key Indicator Values Impact Categories Home | About eLCie™ | About IDCE | LINKS N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

19. eLCie ™ Using eLCie (tm) during the design development phase Contact | Privacy Policy | Terms and Conditions | Search | Site Index Copyright (c) 2003 IDCE. All Rights Reserved. - -- 0.0400 - -- 0.0300 - -- 0.0200 - -- 0.0100 - -- N/A >> LEVEL UP Floorings  Plastic  Bamboo  Terrazzo  Brick  Granite  Marble  Wood  Cork  Linoleum  Rubber  Broadloom  Carpet Tile Global warming Fossil fuel depletion Water depletion Ecological toxicity Human health SmogCriteria air pollutants AGGREGATE 80% TOTAL J&J LifeSpan 0.0286 0.0051 0.0038 0.0197 N/A LINOLEUM 0.0454 BROADLOOM 0.0353 CARPET TILE 0.0253 MARBLE 0.0063 TERRAZZO 0.0037 Forbo NoVOC 0.0230 N/A 0.0246 N/A >> COMPARE BRAND PRODUCTS Home | About eLCie™ | About IDCE | LINKS  Compare two brand products within different product types  e.g. carpet vs linoleum product

20. eLCie ™ Simplifies Sustainable Product Selection -- Reduces time spent on researching and verifying product attributes by purchasers –Identifies “key attributes” which justify choice of one product over another easily and quickly –Uses language which is easily understood by designers and other volume purchasers

21. Can eLCie™ Be Used With Other Tools? eLCie™ results can be used as: The basis for product specification or selection A performance level in other 3rd party standards

22. Why is this important? “The future belongs to those who give the next generation Reason to hope.” - de Chardon