Energy
Waste
Water and Sewage
Transport
Green Blue
Buildings & land use
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Tool summary

Name of the tool
BEAT 2002 (Building Environmental Assessment Tool)

Description of the tool
A PC tool for performing environmental assessment of products, building elements and buildings. BEAT basically consists of three parts:
• a database containing data for energy sources, means of transport, products, building elements and buildings.
• a user interface which allows the user to add, edit and delete data in the database.
• an inventory tool, which allows the user to perform calculations for products, building elements and buildings and print the results in different ways, e.g. as input/output tables or environmental profiles.

BEAT supports several different methods for environmental assessment

Specific topic
Environment

Sector/s of use

Waste

Energy

Water

Transport

Green/Blue

Building & Land use

1

1

0

1

0

M

M - main sector, 1 - sub sector and 0 - n/a

Scale of applications

Component

Building

Neighbourhood

City

Region

1

1

0

0

0