Article: United Kingdom: Sustainable Minds introduces Software Suite for ecologically sustainable product design using life cycle assessment in a collaborative workspace.

Article: A review of life-cycle assessment of ...
Forest Products Journal;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... the product life cycle. Life-cycle assessment (LCA) has provided a systematic ... been made to incorporate life-cycle assessment (LCA) results into green ... Building Council 2007). Life-cycle assessment is a methodology to account ...

Article: Evaluating Human and Ecological Impacts of a Product Life ...
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool for evaluating ... public health. Key Words: life-cycle assessment (LCA), life-cycle impact ... assessment (RA). INTRODUCTION Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is a holistic analytical ...

Article: Life cycle impact assessment for the building ...
Building Design & Construction;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... comprehensive decision-making framework. Life cycle assessment is the framework embraced by many leading sustainability ... maintenance, use, and disassembly. Within life cycle assessment, life cycle impact assessment represents the consistent ...

Article: LCA tools around the world.(PROGRESS REPORT ON LIFE ...
Building Design & Construction;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... occurring in the environment through the life cycle of each material; hence, life cycle assessment. Because LCA attempts to track a complex ... concern, such as operating energy, lighting, life cycle costing, and life cycle environmental effects ...

Article: International Life Cycle Assessment and ...
PR Newswire;  September 28, 2006 ;     494 words ... ... The American Center for Life Cycle Assessment and its partners and sponsors ... announce the Fifth International Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Management ... 20009 (202) 884-8600. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a science based ...

Article: Life-cycle assessment/analysis of concrete
Concrete;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... sustainability have been developed, including whole-life costing (WLC) and life-cycle assessment, also called life-cycle analysis (LCA). Life-cycle analysis LCA is mainly concerned with the environmental impact of materials. It ...

Article: The U.S. LCI database project and its role in life ...
Building Design & Construction;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... result was what we now call life cycle assessment. As environmental concerns ... and to nature. We call this life cycle inventory data. Too often the ... develop a publicly available life cycle inventory database for commonly ...