GBlist: Hal & Joel on LCAs
Belinda_Remley@HicksonCorp.COM
Thu, 6 Mar 1997 19:53:30 -0400
[Huck DeVenzio speaking]
Hal Levin and Joel Todd have offered some excellent comments on Life Cycle
Analyses. While LCAs put some science into comparisons, they do not resolve
the decision for specifiers -- not even the green-ness of the material, let
alone in-use green-ness or expense differences or esthetic considerations.
My company has spent two years and tens of thousands of dollars on an LCA
for one of our products. We're ending up with a table of values that
probably won't correlate with competitors', that still requires judgements,
and that ultimately depends on preferences. It has not been worth the
effort.
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