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Life cycle assessment

The white paper describes the concept of Life Cycle Assessment and what LCA can do for you. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is the systematic analysis of the environmental impact of products during their entire life cycle. The life cycle of a product comprises of production, use and disposal phases. Environmental impacts are evaluated throughout, also including the upstream and downstream processes ...

Oct. 12, 2016

By Sphera

Estimating the Value of Life Cycle Assessments

Untitled Document Abstract What is a life cycle assessment worth? How much should one spend on an LCA, and what are the expected returns from undertaking one? The value of an LCA ought to be readily estimable by anyone proposing to fund an LCA, or by anyone seeking funds for undertaking an LCA. Assessing the value of a potential LCA as a function of its uncertainty and scope and ...

Jan. 1, 2001

By 2.-0 LCA consultants

Life cycle assessment - An executive overview

An Executive Overview of Applications, Market Drivers and Business Benefits Rising demands from customers and regulators for improved environmental performance and increased transparency are driving a surge in interest Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a tool for improvement and innovation while avoiding burden shifting and unintended consequences. Read this executive overview to find out why the ...

Jul. 20, 2018

By Sphera

Hewlett-Packard - Case Study

Saving through GaBi Envision Software & scalable Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Tools thinkstep worked with Hewlett-Packard (HP) to develop an innovative platform approach for completing complex life cycle assessments for printing and imaging systems. thinkstep created a parameterized and fully configurable template for printer and imaging equipment using GaBi Envision software. This allowed HP ...

Aug. 19, 2016

By Sphera

Global guidance principles for life cycle assessment databases

A basis for greener processes and products - ‘Shonan Guidance Principles’ The document provides guidance principles for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) databases; this includes how to collect raw data, how to develop datasets and how to manage databases. The publication also addresses questions concerning data documentation and review, coordination among databases, capacity building and ...

Apr. 20, 2016

By Sphera

Life Cycle Assessment, Databases and Sustainable Building

Untitled Document We are experiencing a fundamental change that affects how products are developed and, more importantly, how they are perceived, especially by large volume purchasers such as governments and members of extended supply chains. The change affects market shares, and it most certainly affects building material choices and design decisions. I’m referring ...

Jan. 1, 2004

By Athena Sustainable Materials Institute

Book Review: Improvement of the Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for Dwellings by Arjen Meijer

Improvement of the Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for Dwellings, by Arjen Meijer. Amsterdam, IOS Press, 2006. ISBN: 9781586036904Keywords: book ...

Dec. 29, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

Life cycle assessment in the framework of sustainable tourism: a preliminary examination of its effectiveness and challenges

The environmental sustainability of tourism has been increasingly appearing in Local Agenda 21 and in the development policies of many countries. Although several studies have focused on sustainable tourism, only a few of them are based on life cycle assessment (LCA), the main methodology to assess environmental issues from a life cycle perspective. In order to gain a better understanding of the ...

Dec. 29, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Life cycle assessment of film and digital imaging product system scenarios

With the advent of digital imaging technology, the options available in consumer imaging have increased. However, the relative environmental impacts of these different options are not clear cut. Assessment of the impacts of these options can help to provide feedback to decision makers and give insight that will help reduce environmental impact through product system design. In this paper, we ...

Mar. 23, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Opening up New Markets and Achieving Corporate Objectives with LCA - Case Study

»Everyone talks about end-to-end integration of sustainability. But this can be achieved only if sustainability is also embedded in the product. Life cycle assessment with GaBi software is our way of measuring this. - Ramon Arratia, Sustainability Director EMEA I InterfaceFLOR. Please, click here to download the case study ...

Jan. 19, 2018

By Sphera

Exergy–based model for quantifying land resource in China: a case study of sintered brick

Land use and resource depletion are two main considerations in life cycle assessment (LCA). Unfortunately, the relationship between land use and resource depletion is always ignored and only a few studies tried to connect them. The objective of this paper is to establish an exergy–based model for quantifying land resource in China, which includes both the occupation phase and the renaturalisation ...

Dec. 30, 2014

By Inderscience Publishers

Interface - Case Study

Using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to guide their sustainability journey. Interface obtains Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for all its carpet product. Interface, the worldwide leader in design, production and sales of environmentally responsible modular carpet, uses GaBi life cycle assessment software to understand its products’ environmental footprints, improve their ...

Sep. 19, 2018

By Sphera

Cleaner production and life cycle design of upholstered furniture

This article presents some results of the environmental and organisational aspects that were obtained from a preliminary analysis of the process of manufacturing upholstered furniture at the furniture cluster in the State of Alagoas, Brazil. The method is based on the concepts of pollution prevention and cleaner production that are associated to the concept of product life cycle design. Data were ...

Nov. 27, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

Make Your LCA Airtight - 7 Tips for Responsible Life Cycle Assessment Practice

An organization I worked for was sued for the publication of partial information from a report we conducted, because the commissioner of the study only communicated isolated facts. It might have been the first Life Cycle Assessment study held up to the spotlight through litigation. The case went all the way to the German supreme court, the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig. The ...

Jul. 22, 2019

By Sphera

LCA’s theory and practice

Like ebony and ivory living in perfect harmony? Life cycle assessment (LCA) is recognized as a trustworthy, scientific while understandable approach to address the environmental sustainability of human activities. It is applied for multiple uses in internal and external information supply and for decision support. The Whitepaper provides the context for framing the discussion on LCA ...

Nov. 8, 2017

By Sphera

Life Cycle Assessment applications in the building sector

A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool has been developed to evaluate environmental impacts of building projects, from construction until demolition. The operation phase is essential, particularly energy processes: therefore LCA is linked to thermal simulation. Several alternatives can be studied. The results, in the form of environmental indicators (e.g., energy and water consumption, contribution ...

Jul. 14, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

Life cycle assessment of integrated circuit packaging technologies.

Background, aim and scope Nanostructured polymer particles are produced to be used in ball grid array (BGA) and chip scale packaging (CSP). The technology could replace conventional BGA and CSP metal balls, and the hypothesis is that the shift could be eco-efficient as polymer core particles increase the reliability. For the first time, these particles are environmentally evaluated.Materials and ...

Feb. 1, 2012

By Vestlandsforsking

Life cycle assessment in market, research, and policy: Harmonization beyond standardization

This article introduces the special series “LCA in Market Research and Policy: Harmonization beyond standardization,” which was generated from the 19th SETAC Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Case Study Symposium held November 2013, in Rome, Italy. This collection of invited articles reflects the purpose of symposium and focuses on how LCA can support the decision‐making process at all levels (i.e., ...

Jun. 28, 2015

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Life cycle engineering: methods, databases and results

The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) technique and of existing methods and databases. LCA is a technique to assess the potential environmental impact associated with a product or a service throughout its life cycle from raw material acquisition through production, use and disposal. The International ISO Standards provide principles, framework and ...

Jul. 14, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

A framework for energy use indicators and their reporting in life cycle assessment

Energy use is a common impact category in life cycle assessment (LCA). Many different energy use indicators are used in LCA studies, accounting for energy use in different ways. Often, however, the choice of the energy use indicator applied is poorly described and motivated. To contribute to a more purposeful selection of energy use indicators and to ensure consistent and transparent reporting ...

Nov. 9, 2015

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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