LBC3 GUIDELINES

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Enter the third 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 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 high-performance buildings today that are stocks of resources for the future.

Objectives

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

Lifecycle Building Challenge winner: Guidelines for Building with Reusable Materials. Aaron Tvrdy, student, University of Nebraska.
Building
- existing buildings
- local material sourcing
Product

Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy
Carbon Management
Water Efficiency & Quality
Material Optimization
Public and Ecosystem Health Protection

Professionals may submit both built and design work.
Students may submit only design work.

In addition, entrants may also register for Outstanding Achievement Awards:

Best Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Best Green Job Creation
Best School Design

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

Residents of the United States and its territories are eligible for all categories and Outstanding Achievement Awards.

International participants may enter the Building and Product Categories and will be recognition will be given to the top international entries in these categories.

Registration

Registration is open! Visit the registration page on our website. As always, registration and participation is free.

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.

Entry Requirements

Images

3 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. Any 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, we will post common questions and answers 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.