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Life Cycle Assessment
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About
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an internationally recognised approach to evaluating the potential environmental impacts of products and services. LCA looks at environmental impacts from raw materials extraction and processing through to end-of-life.
LCA underpins most of the Centre for Design’s work, either directly by providing information and data, or indirectly through the application of life cycle thinking as a fundamental approach when considering sustainability and its relationship to production and consumption.
Skills
- Development of LCA tools
- Data acquisition and verification
- Methodological refinement and associated software manipulation for both manufactured goods and buildings
Research interests
- Packaging
- Building components and building products
- Liquid fuels and electricity
- Waste management
- Metal production and manufacture
- Furniture
- Recycled products
- Transport
- Plastics and plastic products
- Office equipment and office consumables
Project list
- Built Environment Life Cycle Assessment Decision Support Tool (BELCADS)
- Current Projects
- Completed Projects
Contact details
For further information please contact Andrew Carre (Program Director, LCA)