Understanding Green Building Costs:
Life-Cycle Analysis and Assessment (LCA) of Building Green
To be successful at carrying out your green building project, you need to understand the different kinds of costs associated with building projects in general, and the ways in which green buildings can reduce these costs.
In this section, we’ll explore these different costs along with a new way to understand the costs of capital projects – Life Cycle Analysis and Assessment.
There are two separate and distinct ways to understand the "costs" of your project—environmental costs and financial costs. Let's take a look at each.