The objective of green building materials analysis is to support your project’s design and sustainability goals by providing information on materials that contributes to an integrated and ecological way of building. In addition to the material attributes that are identified by LEED (such as recycled content, low VOCs, rapid renewability, and sustainable harvesting practices), integrated and ecological building includes consideration of a material’s embodied energy and its functional capacity.

Embodied energy is the energy used in the production, maintenance, and recyclability of a material. The Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) tool used by ambient energy is the Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES) program, which is a systematic methodology for selecting building products that achieve the most appropriate balance between environmental and economic performance based on the decision-maker’s values.

Functional capacity of a material is leveraged when a single material is multifunctional, thereby reducing the amount of material used and its associated life cycle cost. A material that functions as both part of the structure and the finish, for example, can create immediate cost savings in both the amount of construction material needed and labor.

ambient energy provides product research documents which give you detailed information on a product in terms of images and specific uses, environmental production information, costs, manufacturer contacts, local representatives, and local installations.

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