Modeling tools have been developed to design buildings relative to energy use and pollution impacts in a place specific manner. Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) tracks production, consumption and reuse of materials with at least one design friendly CADconnectable procedure but without accounting for location throughout the life cycle stages. Benchmarking techniques have been applied mostly in production facilities to optimize internal efficiency with some consideration of environmental impact. ISO14000 attempts to develop international protocols to minimize environmental impacts of production. Total Quality Building(tm) (TQB) is an emerging procedure to benchmark building relative to the environment using some techniques mentioned above butcorrelates them to a GIS input/output based modeling framework so that location sensitive issues regarding material and energy flows relative to environment and resource use can be measured. TQB's main objective is to evaluate a building as a performancesystem in a site sensitive context. Site is defined in a multiple scalar measurement depending on resource and technology.
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