[GBlist] BEES 3.0 Released; more <FWD - FYI>

["Bion D. Howard" <bdhoward@ix.netcom.com>]

>From: "Bion D. Howard" <bdhoward@ix.netcom.com>
>Subject: BEES 3.0 Released; more <FWD - FYI>
>
>>Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:58:34 -0500
>>To: (BEES 3.0 Broadcast Annoucement)
>>From: Bobbie Lippiatt <blippiatt@nist.gov>
>>Subject: BEES 3.0 Released
>>
>>I am pleased to announce the release of BEES (Building for Environmental
>>and Economic Sustainability) version 3.0. Developed by the NIST Building
>>and Fire Research Laboratory with support from the U.S. EPA Environmentally
>>Preferable Purchasing Program, BEES brings to your fingertips a powerful
>>technique for selecting cost-effective, environmentally-preferable building
>>products. BEES reduces complex, science-based technical content (e.g., over
>>400 environmental flows from raw material acquisition through product
>>disposal) to decision-enabling results and delivers them in a visually
>>intuitive graphical format.
>>
>>BEES 3.0 incorporates many more building products as well as new and
>>significant improvements in the state of the art of U.S. life cycle
>>assessment (LCA). Twelve environmental impacts are now included in the
>>environmental performance score: global warming, acidification,
>>eutrophication, fossil fuel depletion, indoor air quality, habitat
>>alteration, ozone depletion, water intake, criteria air pollutants, smog,
>>ecological toxicity, and human health. All regional and local impacts are
>>now scored based on new U.S.-specific methods developed by the U.S.
>>Environmental Protection Agency (for more information, visit  
>><http://epa.gov/ORD/NRMRL/std/sab/iam_traci.htm> ). And for the first time,
>>the significance of a product’s performance with respect to each impact is
>>included in the scoring, thanks to new data out of the U.S. EPA that gives
>>us a U.S. "yardstick" against which we can score each impact. What this
>>means is that we can now compare scores across most building elements
>>(e.g., roof coverings and floor coverings) to see which elements score
>>worst and thus would benefit most from environmental improvement.
>>
>>BEES 3.0 includes about 200 building products. While BEES 2.0 included only
>>generic products, BEES 3.0 includes around 80 brand-specific products
>>thanks to the active participation of a number of manufacturers in the
>>inaugural round of our BEES Please program.
>>
>>BEES 3.0 is available for download free of charge from
>><http://www.bfrl.nist.gov/oae/software/bees.html> . While you’re there,
>>please check out our expanded web site that includes some exciting new
>>publications: a University of Michigan study we funded that evaluates LEED
>>using life cycle assessment methods, and a report with results from our
>>BEES 2.0 User Survey that many of you participated in last year. Simply
>>click on "What’s the Buzz?"
>>
>>Thanks for your interest in BEES. Enjoy 3.0!
>>
>>Bobbie Lippiatt, BEES Developer
>>Building and Fire Research Laboratory 
>>National Institute of Standards and Technology 
>>U.S. Department of Commerce
>>
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