Lifecycle Assessment

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May 22, 2018

Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) is a foundational tool for sustainable design. It is a way of quantifying the environmental impact of your designs so that you and your customers can make more informed decisions.

To learn more about LCA, see our brief primer link below that introduces the basic terms, methodologies, and tools

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Links and References

  • Sustainable Minds - This web-based LCA tool can help you estimate, evaluate, compare and track the environmental and human health performance of products throughout their lifecycle, in the earliest stages of design.
  • The printed guide available from IDSA provides an introduction to sustainable design, contains basic LCA data, and outlines a simplified process for LCA. The impact data is combined and weighted in standardized units to allow easier decision making.

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