About the Speaker:
After 30 years as an Australian research scientist in
industry and Government Delwyn has many awards and publications.
In heavy industry, production technologies she developed
are currently used worldwide for polymer and metal coated
steel; refractory and cement as well as container-less
liquid metal coating. Analysis technologies she co-developed
and also now used globally include algorithms and industry
handbook for quantitative Glow Discharge Optical Emission
Spectrometry.
Recently her work helped establish sustainable building
benchmarks with the:
- Quantitative eco-profiles for the 2000 Olympics
and NSW State Government Procurement.
- Brief for Australia's first 5-star greenhouse
energy rated new commercial office building;
- Government Sustainable Office Fitout Guide adopted
by the Green Building Council of Australia.
Since 2001 she has worked to develop LCADesign software
at the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Construction
Innovation. This world first tool, launched in September
2008, automates environmental appraisal of buildings
in real-time from 3D models. It saves >95% of users'
time as data already in the tool allows quantitative
analysis without data re-entry and also re-analysis
of models to optimise eco-profiles.
LCADesign draws data from Australian, American, German
and Dutch supply chain databases to give dimensionally-relevant
eco-indicator profiles. This transformational software
can enable more sustainable building and Delwyn has
now joined the company with the global license to develop
market and distribute LCADesign. The challenge ahead
is to ensure evidence of compelling value propositions
and strong market penetration.
Topic Overview:
Sustainable building
stakeholders now have real-time quantitative ecoprofiling
capability from Australia's CRC for Construction Innovation
world-first ecoprofiling tool called LCADesign launched
in September 2008 and distributed globally by Ecquate
Pty Ltd. Modern computer aided drafting (3D CAD) programs
save files in industry foundation class (IFC) data
transfer format to generate virtual Building Information
Models (BIMS). Users with such software integrating
BIM and industry supply chain life cycle inventory
(LCI) databases can now ecoprofile whole buildings
in hours rather than the many months it took before.
Once virtual models are imported a smart tagging tool
links element groups with LCI data to show building
whole-of-life impacts. LCADesign employs International
Standard Organisation Environmental Management Series
Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) methods and ecoindicator
99 Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) algorithms
to transparently show full the inventory of emissions
and resource use from extraction, acquisition, manufacture
periodic maintenance and replacement including from
operating energy and water e. g. transport emissions
and fuel use of every element defined in the BIM,
as well as aggregated weighted impacts and a single
eco-point score to compare to reference designs.
LCADesign of Australian, Dutch, German and Californian
case studies will be used to show opportunity for
mitigation of climate change, resource depletion,
human health and ecosystem quality impact. As more
country and city specific supply chain inventories
are compiled, LCADesign can, for example, automate
assessment for tools such as LEED and BREAM. Indeed
Ecquate and Ecospecifier are creating "LCADesign
for ecospecifier" to deliver brand-name, product
specific LCIA. Ecospecifier's unique GreenRate service
provides product pre-assessment services that meet
the Technical Manual Criteria for e.g. Green Star,
NABERS, BASIX and BCA. So LCADesign for ecospecifier
is set to relate full quantitative building LCA to
the world's leading building rating systems and benchmarks.
While LCADesign takes much subjectivity out of green
ratings and adoption of BIM technology offers virtual
facility management models, the most significant potential
for market transformation flows from redirection of
the forecast 10% project cost saving toward sustainable
building.
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