To understand the true ecological impact and sustainability of a car, it must be viewed in the context of its whole life cycle. Read more about it
Previous Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) studies on urban drainage systems only included construction materials in the system inventories. The present study aims to suggest an LCA and LCC method that for the first time, considers the inventories from four main phases in...
life cycle assessment; brown coal fly ash; impact assessment; cost–benefit analysis1. Introduction The gravity of climate change and other pressing environmental issues necessitates the prioritization of sustainable solutions. Portland cement (PC) concrete, the most-extensively used building construction ...
A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a systematic analysis of the environmental impact of a product over its entire life cycle ➠ Learn more about its method and meaning here.
The aim of this study is to conduct a novel life cycle assessment (LCA) process for a window-mounted building attached photovoltaic panel that is used as a photovoltaic integrated shading (PVIS) device, using GaBi software. Also, the study takes into consideration three different scenarios of ...
WHAT ARE THE PHASES OF A LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT? The four phases of a life cycle assessment are very much intertwined, with each one affecting the accuracy of the one coming after it. The first phase defines the LCA’sgoal and scope: what will the company assess and not assess, which of...
Life Cycle Assessment is a tool to assess the environmental impacts and resources used throughout a product's life cycle, i.e., from raw material acquisition, via production and use phases, to waste management. The methodological development in LCA has been strong, and LCA is broadly applied ...
Environmental Life Cycle Assessment, or E-LCA Social Life Cycle Assessment, or S-LCA Economic Life Cycle Costing, or LCC All 3 components can be combined for the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment, or an LSCA. Figure 1: Types of Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs). Adopted from Life Cycle ...
Life cycle assessment (LCA), or life cycle analysis, is a pivotal method for evaluating the environmental impacts of a product, process, or service across its entire life cycle. This includes the extraction of raw materials, production, use, and post-use phases. Each of these life cycle stag...
In this chapter, a tool aimed at carrying out the Life Cycle Assessment (called MaGA) and one for the Life Cycle Costing (called BAL.LCPA) are introduced starting from the analysis of requirements carried out to make sure their use is suitable in a PSS design context. In order to ...