This four part webinar series is free to join.
Wednesday 27th April - Life Cycle Assessment Overview
This webinar provides a basic introduction to life cycle assessment (LCA) and calculating the carbon footprint of a building. Life cycle assessment underpins all BRANZ carbon tools, so this webinar is a recommended introduction to our other carbon tools webinars.
The webinar covers:
- Climate change and how it affects Aotearoa New Zealand’s built environment
- The fundamentals of LCA such as relevant standards, life cycle stages, and environmental indicators
How to use your results to inform design decisions.
Wednesday 4th May - LCA Quick
This webinar provides a basic introduction to using the BRANZ building life cycle assessment tool, LCAQuick. It builds on the life cycle assessment webinar by providing a practical demonstration of LCAQuick, going over the basic inputs and outputs of the tool.
Wednesday 11th May - LCA Play
Developed by BRANZ and Mott MacDonald, LCAPlay allows users to assess potential environmental impacts for commercial building design concepts.
It is useful to inform design direction early on and identify viable low-carbon design pathways and other environmental indicators during the concept phase.
The tool can provide comparative outputs for two different building concept options within one minute of start-up.
Having tested design concepts using this tool, users can calculate potential environmental impacts and test options further through preliminary design and beyond using LCAQuick.
Wednesday 18th May - CO2RE
CO₂RE draws on residential construction elements from the BRANZ House Insulation Guide (5th edition) and some details from the PHINZ High Performance Construction Details Handbook.
It enables the user to:
- Find out the estimated climate change impact for different types of residential roof, wall and floor constructions.
- Compare the carbon performance of different roof, wall and floor constructions according to a desired minimum construction R-value.
Learn more and register here