Life cycle assessment of construction materials
Justification
World population growth
Satisfaction of human consumption habits
Depletion of natural resources
Release of wastes
Objective
Assessment of impacts of life cycle
Extraction of raw materials
Processing
Manufacturing
Transport
Use
Maintenance
Categories of impacts
Global warming
Acidification
Photochemical ozone creation
Eutrophication
Human toxicity
Resource depletion
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG #8: Decent work and economic growth
SDG #12: Responsible consumption and production
Stages
Materials extraction
Manufacturing/Production
Transportation
Utiilization/Reuse
Disposal/Recycling
Main phases
Goal and scope
Lifecycle inventory
Lifecycle impact assessment
Functional unit
Geographic boundaries
Stating and defining the aim
Economic inflows
Environmental inflows
Economic outflows
Environmental outflows
Human health
Ecosystem
Resource availability
Interpretation
Scientific approach
Social approach
Legal approach
Statistical approach
Approaches
Process-based
Input-output
Hybrid
Quantification of inputs and outputs
Definition of system boundaries
Economic transaction between sectors