Abstract Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an assessment tool to evaluate the potential environmental impact of a system or product throughout its life cycle. Results from LCA provides insight on developing more sustainable while identifying hotspots. With recent advancements in membrane treatment systems especially for wastewater (WWT), there rising interest sustainability aspect. Thus, it crucia...

Environmental impact assessment of goods and services is nowadays a major challenge for both economic and ethical reasons. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) provides a wellaccepted methodology for modelling environmental impacts of human activities. One stage of the LCA methodology is Life Cycle Inventory (LCI), which consists of decomposing economic activities as elementary processes linked together...

Abstract Nowadays Life Cycle Assessment is the most popular tool that can be used to see environmental load of a machine, product or process. LCA defines impact throughout life product, from extraction production raw material natural resources, through production, use and final disposal. This method focuses on assessment tested object area ecosystem, human health resources use. very helpful in ...

This paper presents a probabilistic-based framework for the design of civil infrastructure repair and rehabilitation to achieve targeted improvements in sustainability indicators. The framework consists of two types of models: (i) service life prediction models combining one or several deterioration mechanisms with a suite of limit states and (ii) life cycle assessment (LCA) models for measurin...

We analyze the use of life cycle assessment (LCA) as a regulatory tool using biofuel regulations as an illustrative example. A regulatory context calls for a consequential LCA (CLCA) of a policy as opposed to an attributional LCA (ALCA) of a product. In performing CLCA, issues of scale, price effects, technology and policy in the counterfactual state of the world, strategic behavior, policy hor...

Human demands on marine resources and space are currently unprecedented and concerns are rising over observed declines in marine biodiversity. A quantitative understanding of the impact of industrial activities on the marine environment is thus essential. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a widely applied method for quantifying the environmental impact of products and processes. LCA was originally...

A methodology to quantitatively assess the improvement of seismic and energy performance masonry buildings through retrofitting interventions is here proposed. The approach developed at mesoscale level, considering entire façades with openings taking into account Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). costs that couple effects thermal (called integrated interventions/approaches) are different whether onl...

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15732479.2012.670250 Abstract Railway bridges currently encounter the challenges of increasing the load capacity while the environmental sustainability should be achieved. However, it has been realized that the environmental assessment of railway bridges has not been integrated into the decision making process, the standard guideline and criterion is s...

life cycle assessment (lca) is one of the decision support systems which can be considered for assessing the different approaches of waste management. however, it only considers environmental effects and ignores other decision making options such as economic and social effects of solid waste management. in this research, we consider a combination of three decision making options including en...