2024-03-29T08:03:31Zhttp://digital.lib.washington.edu/dspace-oai/requestoai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/196752016-02-15T11:18:13Zcom_1773_19659com_1773_3774col_1773_19660
A Greek temple in French Prairie: the William Case House, French Prairie, Oregon, 1858-59
Hildebrand, Grant
Sutermeister, Miriam
A Greek Temple in French Prairie: The William Case House, French Prairie, Oregon, 1858-59 chronicles a remarkable settlement-era Classical Revival farmhouse in Oregon's Willamette Valley. The house was built in 1859 as the headquarters of a busy and productive farming operation founded by William Case. The house is known for its distinctive peripteral colonnade and its red exterior. Hildebrand and Sutermeister were drawn to their project after a first visit to the present occupants and restorers of the house, fellow Chapter members Wallace Huntington and Mirza Dickel. Over a period of several years the authors visited their friends and conducted research aimed at more completely documenting the character of the farmhouse both in its historic period and as restored and enhanced by gardens.
2012-03-22T20:05:07Z
2012-03-22T20:05:07Z
2007
Book
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/19675
en_US
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the authors or the copyright holder/publisher.
Marion Dean Ross Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians
oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/209752016-02-16T11:32:05Zcom_1773_19659com_1773_3774col_1773_19660
Action: Better City
Central business districts
Copyright the American Institute of Architects, Seattle Chapter, digitized with permission.
2012-12-13T19:51:01Z
2012-12-13T19:51:01Z
1968
Book
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/20975
en_US
American Institute of Architects, Seattle Chapter
oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/380172017-06-16T21:12:53Zcom_1773_19659com_1773_3774col_1773_19660
Embodied Carbon Benchmark Study: LCA for Low Carbon Construction
CLF Embodied Carbon Benchmark Database
Simonen, Kate
Droguett, Barbara Rodriguez
Strain, Larry
McDade, Erin
Barrera, S.
Huang, M.
The Embodied Carbon Benchmark Study provides data to building industry professionals integrating embodied carbon into life cycle decision making. However, in order to allow embodied carbon results to be comparable across projects and practices, a common standard for life cycle analysis is required. The next stage of this project will result in the creation of such an environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) practice guide (due December 2017). This report outlines the first stage of the project, which establishes reasonable estimates of the embodied carbon of buildings (the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from extracting, manufacturing and installing materials and products over the life cycle of a building) and characterizes the level and sources of uncertainty in our current knowledge.
The Charles Pankow Foundation, Skanska USA, and the
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
2017-02-10T19:04:25Z
2017-02-10T19:04:25Z
2017
Technical Report
Simonen, K., Rodriguez, B., Barrera, S., Huang, M., McDade, E,. Strain, L. (2017) Embodied Carbon Benchmark Study: LCA for Low Carbon Construction. Version 1.0, The University of Washington.
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/38017
en_US
University of Washington
oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/418712018-05-16T05:27:44Zcom_1773_19659com_1773_3774col_1773_19660
woodwinds to the rescue!
woodward, James
this is the abstract it is usually longer than this
2018-05-16T05:27:44Z
2018-05-16T05:27:44Z
2018-04-14
Musical Score
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/41871
CC0 1.0 Universal
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/418852018-07-14T10:42:26Zcom_1773_19659com_1773_3774col_1773_19660
Life Cycle Assessment of Buildings: A Practice Guide
Huang, Monica
This Practice Guide introduces the use of life cycle assessment (LCA) to analyze the environmental impacts of buildings. The intent of this Practice Guide is to help building professionals understand how to use LCA in their work. It addresses basic
questions such as:
• How do buildings impact the environment?
• What is LCA and how is it used to evaluate buildings?
• How do you conduct an LCA of a building?
The Charles Pankow Foundation
Skanksa USA
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
2018-05-31T21:08:04Z
2018-05-31T21:08:04Z
2018-05-30
Learning Object
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/41885
en_US
The Carbon Leadership Forum, Department of Architecture, University of Washington
oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/481262021-11-19T11:49:28Zcom_1773_19659com_1773_3774col_1773_19660
Transformative Carbon-Storing Materials: Accelerating an Ecosystem
Kriegh, Julie
Recent recognition of the severity of the climate crisis and the need for major, impactful interventions has accelerated interest in low-carbon and carbon-storing materials that can redress the significant upfront emissions associated with conventional building materials. Decades of previous work to develop, improve, and implement these materials now provide a strong base of research, product development, and case studies that can support the drive to bring these materials to market quickly and help meet global climate targets.
Past experience with low-carbon and carbon-storing building materials has shown that specification and use of materials are indeed feasible and can match conventional alternatives in terms of cost, code compliance, and construction schedules. However, the significant investments required to scale many of these materials has largely impaired their shift into the mainstream. The potential for meaningful climate impact through materials that serve as carbon sinks now gives such materials a clear advantage, with the potential to reverse the climate profile of buildings from a leading driver of carbon emissions to carbon reservoirs that can help reverse it.
Findings from this study highlight six materials for use in building foundations, structures, and/or enclosure systems. These materials—earthen slabs, non-portland cement concrete slabs, algae-grown bricks/panels, mycelium structural tubes, purpose-grown fiber, and agricultural waste panels—warrant in-depth examination because they offer novel material technologies or novel material uses with high carbon-storing potential, and they are worthy of investment to accelerate their scaling, manufacturing, and marketable use in the building industry supply chain. Furthermore this study outlines a methodology for establishing evaluation criteria to assess a given material’s potential for impact in a carbon-positive architecture.
2021-11-18T17:38:22Z
2021-11-18T17:38:22Z
2021-11-15
Article
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/48126
oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/486002022-06-02T10:52:03Zcom_1773_19659com_1773_3774col_1773_19660
Developing an Embodied Carbon Policy Reduction Calculator - Quantifying the embodied emissions reduction potentials of city policies
Benke, Brad
Lewis, Meghan
Carlisle, Stephanie
Huang, Monica
Simonen, Kate
The Buy Clean California Act requires the California Department of General Services (DGS), in consultation with the California Air Resources Board, to establish maximum acceptable global warming potential (GWP) limits at industry-average for structural steel (hot-rolled sections, hollow structural sections, and plate), concrete reinforcing steel, flat glass, and mineral wool board insulation (heavy and light). DGS is directed to set these limits at the industry average using data from facility-specific environmental product declarations (EPDs) or industry-wide EPDs based on domestic production data. The goal of this report is to propose industry-average GWP values for eligible materials under BCCA using a methodology that 1) meets the requirements and intent of the BCCA; 2) is representative of typical manufacturing production; and 3) is constrained to high quality, published LCA data sources that are available as of December 2021.
2022-06-01T15:54:37Z
2022-06-01T15:54:37Z
2022-04
Article
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/48600
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
Carbon Leadership Forum
oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/499632023-04-21T11:15:40Zcom_1773_19659com_1773_3774col_1773_19660
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory from Construction of Washington State Department of Transportation Roadways, Final Report
Ashtiani, Milad
Lewis, Meghan
Huang, Monica
Simonen, Kate
Recent emphasis on actions to reduce large-scale greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has pushed most state departments of transportation (DOTs) to develop carbon accounting practices compatible with their current standard data collection and storage practices. In particular, with the recently passed Buy Clean Acts in California, Colorado, and Oregon and the recently proposed Buy Clean and Buy Fair Washington Act, common construction materials such as cement concrete, steel, and asphalt are now under special attention. Once accurate and reliable accounting of GHG emissions is established, strategies can be formed that would help mitigate the adverse environmental impacts of materials utilized by state DOTs.
This project, in collaboration with the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), is an attempt to perform a life cycle assessment (LCA) on some of the agency-wide operations that emit GHGs. To date, WSDOT has not conducted a comprehensive assessment on the embodied carbon of its construction material usage (i.e., upstream Scope 3 emissions inventory) with most previous carbon accounting practices being focused on Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions (i.e., the carbon footprint of direct and indirect energy usage).
Although several strategies are now in place to cut Scope 1 and 2 emissions, such as the use of alternative and renewable energy sources, strategies to reduce Scope 3 emissions have neither been fully recognized nor quantified. Therefore, this project uses several data sources from WSDOT in conjunction with lifecycle emission factor data to estimate GHG emissions from the materials used to build and maintain roadways under WSDOT’s jurisdiction. We found that upstream Scope 3 emissions for WSDOT as an agency contributes to more than half of its currently tracked total GHG emissions inventory by a five-year average of 310 thousand metric tons of CO2eq. This project further suggests carbon reduction targets for WSDOT and uses decarbonation scenarios to provide recommendations to achieve GHG reduction targets of 50% below the 2020 baseline in 2030 and 90% below the 2020 baseline in 2050.
2023-04-18T17:24:23Z
2023-04-18T17:24:23Z
2023-04-13
Technical Report
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/49963
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/