Development of a Carbon Emission Calculations System for Optimizing Building Plan Based on the LCA Framework

Table 2

Comparison results.

Tools	Country	Developer	Main functions	Database extensibility	Application range
BEES 4.0	America	National Institute of; Standards and Technology	(i) Life cycle costing assessment	Fixed	Building
			(ii) Life cycle impact assessment
Athena Impact Estimator 4.2	Canada	Athena Sustainable; Materials Institute	Life cycle impact assessment	Fixed	Building
TEAM 4.6	France	Ecobilan-Price water; house Coopers	(i) Life cycle costing assessment	Flexible	All industries
			(ii) Life cycle impact assessment
			(iii) Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis
SimaPro7	Netherlands	PRé Consultants B.V.	(i) Life cycle impact assessment	Flexible	All industries
			(ii) Database Management
GaBi 4	Germany	PE International GmbH	(i) Life cycle impact assessment	Flexible	All industries
			(ii) Database management