A Social Life Cycle Assessment Framework for Additive Manufacturing Products

Methodologies for Social Life Cycle Assessment*

Goal, Scope and Background. In recent years several different approaches towards Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) have been developed. The purpose of this review is to compare these approaches in order to highlight methodological differences and general shortcomings. SLCA has several similarities with other social assessment tools, although, in order to limit the expanse of the review, only ...

An Engineering Services Framework for Additive Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing is now mature and is becoming a mainstream production technique for various industries. It is important that engineering services organizations equip themselves to provide a new range of services in this sector. This paper presents an engineering process framework for evaluating and adopting additive manufacturing. It describes tools developed to improve engineering servi...

Life Cycle Assessment and Forest Products: A White Paper

Life Cycle Assessment and Forest Products: A White Paper

Ecological footprint accounting in the life cycle assessment of products

Mark A.J. Huijbregts⁎, Stefanie Hellweg, Rolf Frischknecht, Konrad Hungerbühler, A. Jan Hendriks Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland ecoinvent Centre, Empa, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland Institute for Chemicaland Bioengineering, ETH Zuri...