Past Event

Insights and Applications on Life Cycle Assessment: Training at Business Environment Council  

On 12 December, Dr Meike Sauerwein and Teri Tan from the HKUST Life Cycle Lab hosted a course about Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) together with the Business Environment Council. They shared practical insights on how to conduct LCA, the potential benefits and pitfalls and dived into a number of applications. Attendees came from industries ranging from the building, aviation, banking to supply chain management to learn about calculating and comparing LCA / carbon footprint of raw materials and buildings, the comparison among different LCA tools in the market, as well as life cycle costing for justifying the investment in greener materials.