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Lca a practical guide for students designers and business managers

See discussions stats and author pro ?les for this publication at https www researchgate net publication Lca a practical guide for students designers and business managers Book December CITATIONS author Joost Vogtl? nder Delft University of Technology PUBLICATIONS CITATIONS SEE PROFILE READS Available from Joost Vogtl? nder Retrieved on October CA practical guide to LCA for students designers and business managers Cradle-to-Grave and Cradle-to-Cradle CThe cover photo is part of the ??Design Cork ? book and project www designcork com directed by Ana Mestre and photographed by Paulo Andrade for Susdesign The tree is a cork oak tree Cork is an almost forgotten material made out of the bark of the tree the bark is harvested every nine years without cutting the tree Ana Mestre www SUSdesign org has proven in her research that there are abundant opportunities to apply cork in innovative product designs LCA and the method of the EVR see Appendix IV play an important role in that research giving guidance on what to do and what to avoid This is called ? eco-e ?cient value creation ? CSustainable Design Series of the Delft University of Technology A practical guide to LCA for students designers and business managers Cradle-to-Grave and Cradle-to-Cradle Joost G Vogtl? nder Delft Academic Press C ? Delft Academic Press Fourth edition Third edition ?rst revision Second edition First edition Published by Delft Academic Press VSSD Publishers Leeghwaterstraat CA Delft The Netherlands tel e-mail dap vssd nl www delftacademicpress nl b html All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher Printed version ISBN - - eBook ISBN - - NUR Key words life cycle assessment sustainability CPreface Life Cycle Assessment LCA is a well-de ?ned method to calculate the environmental burden of a product or service However LCA has been made needlessly so complex that it seems to be a job for specialists only The specialists jargon ? functional unit ? ? fate analysis ? ? midpoints ? ? endpoints ? ? attributional modelling ? etc makes it even more impossible for non-specialists to ?nd out what they need to know to make an LCA The recent LCA manual of the International Reference Life Cycle Data System of the EU is an excellent document for those people who like to become expert The focus is on all the theoretical aspects of LCA of the text is on how to make an LCI Life Cycle Inventory and perform the Life Cycle Interpretation including data quality checks and formalities on the reporting However the vast majority of students designers architects and business managers and their consultants never make LCI emission lists nor write extensive reports on the interpretation Most of them apply LCIs of databases of other parties like the Ecoinvent database apply existing single indicator systems like eco-costs carbon footprint CED BEES Recipe etc