What’s New
Athena Institute Releases New Version of the Acclaimed Impact Estimator for buildings Software
Latest version of the ATHENA® Impact Estimator for buildings features increased functionality and flexibility for design teams, new regions, and more indicators of a building’s impact on the environment.
Click here to find out more about the new version.
Announcing a new software distribution arrangement
The Athena Institute has had a long-standing collaborative relationship with Morrison Hershfield Consulting Engineers. In addition to working together for many years on building assessments and related projects, Morrison Hershfield has provided support services for the ATHENA® Impact Estimator for buildings, the Institute's LCA-based software for assessing the environmental effects of building structures and envelopes. We have now extended that relationship to encompass software development and distribution.
Click here to find out more about our new software distribution arrangement.
NEW Carbon Footprint Consulting Service
The Institute is offering a new carbon footprint consulting service in response to the growing need to address global warming.
Click here to find out more about our new Carbon Footprint Consulting Service.
EcoCalculator
In our efforts to help architects and designers make environmentally-informed decisions about the materials they specify for buildings, we have developed an exciting new Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool.*
The new ATHENA® EcoCalculator for Assemblies provides instant LCA results for more than 400 common building assemblies - including exterior walls, roofs, intermediate floors, interior walls, windows, and columns and beams. The results presented in the tool are based on detailed assessments conducted using the ATHENA® Impact Estimator for buildings.
The EcoCalculator can be used for new construction projects, retrofits and major renovations, and for industrial, institutional, office or residential designs, either to compare specific assemblies or to assess all of the assemblies in a structure.
Click here to learn more about the EcoCalculator.
Presentations from Ecobuild America May 2007 Conference
“Sustainable Building: An Overview of Metrics and Methods” by Wayne Trusty of the Athena Institute. Ecobuild-Trusty_0507.pdf 
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“Metrics and Measures for Sustainable Design” by John Carmody from the Center for Sustainable Building Research University of Minnesota. EcoBuild-Carmody_0507.pdf .