Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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BEopt does not perform life-cycle assessment (LCA) analysis. BEopt does not look at the embodied energy of materials or material processing or transportation, etc. The properties in the BEopt material database are specific to the materials' thermal performance.The few references to CO2 that you'll find in BEopt are for converting building energy consumption to the equivalent CO2 emissions.
If you are looking for a LCA tool, you might look at NIST's BEES tool: https://ws680.nist.gov/bees
