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Lifecycle Building Challenge 2
Lifecycle Building Challenge 2 Links
The Lifecycle Building Challenge
2 
is
a Web-based competition developed by the EPA, the Building Materials Reuse
Association, the American Institute of Architects, Southface Energy Institute,
and West Coast Green. This national competition, sponsored by GreenBuildingBlocks.com,
invites engineers, designers, planners, contractors, builders, educators
and students to submit their ideas for buildings and building materials
that facilitate and anticipate future changes to and eventual adaptation,
disassembly, or dismantling for recovery.
Also known as design for disassembly and design for deconstruction, lifecycle thinking encompasses the idea of creating buildings that are stocks of resources for future buildings. By creating building components that can be easily recovered and reused, materials are kept at their highest value, which reduces energy and resource consumption.
The Lifecycle Building Challenge was launched to harvest the best thinking of students and professionals about how to design buildings to reduce the environmental impacts over an entire building's lifecycle. There's no time to waste in greening our buildings. Each year more than 100 million tons of building-related construction and demolition debris are landfilled in the U.S.
Lifecycle building is the design of building materials, components, information systems, and management practices to create buildings that facilitate and anticipate future changes to and eventual adaptation or dismantling for recovery of all systems, components, and materials.