Does the Green Globes® system incorporate Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)?
With the current Green Globes system, education credits are granted in the New Construction rating system for using LCA while making decisions on building assemblies and materials. GBI has also begun a process to further integrate LCA into the Green Globes tool through its efforts to develop the New Construction rating system as an ANSI standard. The outcome of GBI’s efforts allows cradle-to-grave environmental impacts of various building assemblies to be compared more easily. See Life Cycle Assessment for more information on GBI’s research and tool development.
