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BUILDINGPI: A FUTURE TOOL FOR BUILDING LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS James ODonnell1 1 1 , Elmer Morrissey , and Marcus Keane Vladimir Bazjanac2 1 National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland 2Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, 94720 – U.S.A. sustainable approach to analysis must be undertaken. ABSTRACT The future of sustainable buildings lies with Traditionally building simulation tools are used at the incorporation of a building life cycle performance design phase of the building project. These models are monitoring and assessment methodology. The current used to optimise various design alternatives and reduce nature of building life cycle assessment is fragmented cost. Building performance assessment for the with little or no feedback from the design stage. Goals operational phase of a buildings life cycle is sporadic, set down by the AEC community tend to get lost as the typically working from historical metered data and building evolves through its many life cycle stages. focusing on bulk energy assessment. Building There are a plethora of performance assessment Management Systems (BMS) do not explicitly methodologies on both sides of the Atlantic, however incorporate feedback to design phase o