Entry Guidelines

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Enter the second year of the Lifecycle Building Challenge competition, to shape the future of green building and facilitate local building materials reuse. Submit your innovative project, design, or idea for reducing to conserve construction and demolition materials and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by designing buildings for adaptability and disassembly.

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 buildings that are stocks of resources for future buildings.

Objectives

Create designs that facilitate local building materials reuse
Consider the full lifecycle of building materials—design through 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.

LBC2 Categories

Lifecycle Building Challenge winner: Guidelines for Building with Reusable Materials. Aaron Tvrdy, student, University of Nebraska.
Building
- A whole building
- Professionals may submit both built and unbuilt work
- Students may submit only unbuilt work
Innovative Idea
- Component, tool, policy, part of a building, a strategy, or educational tool

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
Best residential design

Examples of 2007 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

How to Enter

Lifecycle Building Challenge winner:
South Lake Union Discovery Center.
David Miller, The Miller|Hull Partnership.

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 is available for download. You can 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

Description

Brief explanation of entry
Discussion of lifecycle building techniques
Materials used
Environmental implications
Economic or policy implications

Measurement (use measurement worksheet and example)

To measure the impacts of submissions, all entrants will be asked to:

Estimate building square footage (building category only)
Estimate construction and demolition debris reduced/building materials conserved (by type)

Entrants may also include additional project measurement information:

Greenhouse gases reduced
Measurement tool used
Other website tools used (if available)

Recommended Measurement Tools

Weights of Building Materials - Compiled by Pennsylvania State University
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste in the United States
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Waste Reduction Model (WARM) converts building materials reduction and reuse to GHG emissions. Note: Steel cans and aluminum cans categories can be used to calculate building materials of steel and aluminum
National Institute for Science and Technology, Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES)
Athena Institute Eco Calculator (Winner of 2007 LBC Award)
NY WasteWatch Building Materials Reuse Calculator

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 and registration opens: April
Registration and submission closes: July 31
Winners notified: September
Winners recognized: Fall 2008

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, and BMRA, CHPS, WCG, Southface, 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.