Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), a kind of cradle–to–grave paradigm based instrument for measuring the product sustainability by analyzing energy, cost, and environ-mental impacts that would be spent and occur along the product–life–cycle, is one of mechanisms used for Eco Labeling or Environmental Labeling, certifica-tions of acknowledgement on sustainable product.
The labeling could possibly be carried out by way of kind of LCA instrument lim-ited within economically established countries. What about sustainable architec-ture, that would always be involving energy, cost, and environmental impacts as well, as all we know architecture cannot separated from building in terms of building as a product of architecture.
“System Approach to Architecture”, offered by A. Benjamin Handler, simplified to considering architecture as a system practically based on paradigm that simi-lar to LCA. System that consists of designing process, construction, facility op-eration, and human bionomic process, will act as a building–life–cycle instru-ment if at the end of the system completed with a building management system or a system that concern about end of life of the building, such as recycling proc-ess, renovation, or preservation. Toward