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Lifecycle Building Challenge
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Enter the Lifecycle Building Challenge online competition, to shape the future of green building and facilitate local building materials reuse.
UPDATE: The 2009 winners have been announced. Thanks to all who participated!
Submit your innovative Building or Building Product (Built or Design) designed for adaptability and disassembly to:
- conserve construction and demolition materials and
- reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Lifecycle building is designing buildings to facilitate disassembly and material reuse to minimize waste, energy consumption, and associated greenhouse gas emissions. Also known as design for disassembly and design for deconstruction, lifecycle building describes the idea of creating high-performance buildings today that are stocks of resources for the future.
Objectives
Create designs that facilitate local building materials reuse
- Create designs that facilitate local building materials reuse
- Consider the full lifecycle of buildings and materials—from resource extraction through occupancy and, finally, deconstruction and reuse
- Focus on quality and creativity of designs and concepts
- Develop strategies that maximize materials recovery
- Reduce the overall embodied energy and greenhouse gas emissions of building materials through reuse
- Decrease environmental and economic costs
- Address real world issues
Click here to read Key Challenge Guides and additional resource materials.
LBC3 Categories
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Building a whole building designed for disassembly and material reuse
Lifecycle Building Challenge winner: Guidelines for Building with Reusable Materials. Aaron Tvrdy, student, University of Nebraska.
- existing buildings
- local material sourcing
Professionals may submit both built and unbuilt work.
Students may submit only unbuilt work.
In addition, entrants may also register for Outstanding Achievement Awards: Best greenhouse gas reduction Best school design
Examples of 2008 entries and winners are online.
Who Should Participate?
- Architects, reuse experts, engineers, designers, planners, contractors, builders, educators, environmental advocates
- Students in any program
Teams
Teams of up to 5 contestants can enter. Please include all team members and a team lead when registering.
Eligibility
Only residents of the United States and its territories are eligible.
Registration
Registration will open soon! Check this website for updates or email us to be notified when registration opens. Registration and participation is free.
How to Enter
All entries must be submitted on-line. To minimize waste and conserve paper, no hard copy submissions will be accepted. Upload your entry on this website. Use your contestant number to log on.
To help prepare for submitting your entry, a blank submission form in Word format will be provided March 2009 for download. You will be able to use this form to compose your response, copy/paste to the website, and save for your records.
Entry Requirements
Images
- 2 high-resolution image files of the design
- resolution: 1600 x 2400 pixels
- jpeg or TIF files
- 1 thumbnail image of the design
Description
- Brief explanation of entry
- Discussion of lifecycle building techniques
- Materials used
- Environmental implications
- Economic or policy implications
Measurement
- building square footage (building category only)
- construction and demolition debris reduced (by type)
Specifications
- In order to promote replicability of project and product ideas, specification submissions will be evaluated for inclusion in EPA’s Green Construction Guide for Specifiers. A ny inclusions would be appropriately credited in the Guide.
Questions and Answers
Contestants are encouraged to ask questions via email concerning competition details. For the benefit of contestants, common questions and answers will be posted on the Challenge website. Email questions to info@lifecyclebuilding.org.
Timeline
- competition launches
- December 15 2008
- registration opens
- March 1 2009
- submission deadline
- August 30 2009
- winners recognized
- Fall 2009
Conditions
Upon registering for this competition, all competitors agree to waive any and all claims against the sponsors and cooperating agencies which may result from the participation in the Lifecycle Building Challenge. All entries received will be considered public information. Entrants are responsible for the protection of any intellectual property or copyright associated with their entry by patent or other means. Entries submitted should be the original work of the participant or team.
By registering, the entrants agree that the Challenge Committee and partners shall have the unlimited right to publish and exhibit and otherwise use all entries and materials submitted by competition participants through any means of communication, including, but not limited to publication, presentation, display, and electronic posting for an indefinite period of time. All submitted materials will become the property of Lifecycle Building Challenge and will be considered for inclusion on the Lifecycle Building Challenge website. Submitted materials will not be returned.
The use of these materials is at the Committee and partners own discretion and without compensation to the entrant. Entries may also be used as an educational resource. The Lifecycle Building Challenge Committee reserves the right to refuse any entry. We are not liable for lost, misdirected, late or substantially incomplete entries. There is no guarantee that submitted entries will be displayed online. The Conference Committee, EPA, AIA, CHPS, WCG, and Green Building in Alameda County do not necessarily endorse or approve of the policies or products of any of the entrants and no official endorsement should be inferred by an agency or organization's participation in the Competition. Submitting participants must notify their clients of the program requirements prior to entering.
