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What are the business benefits of doing Life Cycle Assessment ?
What are the business benefits of doing Life Cycle Assessment ?
Benchmark – Understand your baseline from which to improve
High Impact Areas – LCA highlights ‘Hotspots’ and focus areas
Future Focused – Simulate variables to design products of the future
Regulatory preparedness – Understand the data to make smart decisions
Decrease costs – Highlight waste and inefficiency
Brand Reputation – LCA demonstrates your commitment to a sustainable future
Win Business – The rise of the sustainable consumer
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Platform Development Targets 2022
Platform Development Targets 2022
1. Use platform to provide examples of existing solutions for data consistency and standardisation e.g. ISO 104044
2. Provide LCA education resources on the platform
3. Host supply chain screening assessment templates for defining boundaries and data collection protocol
NOTE: Any resources on this platform that have been created as a direct result of the Innovation Workshop Series or that directly progress the Roadmap 2030 are highlighted with a
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Data consistency and standardisation solutions
Data consistency and standardisation solutions
ISO 14040:2006
ISO 14040:2006
ISO 14040:2006 describes the principles and framework for life cycle assessment (LCA) including: definition of the goal and scope of the LCA, the life cycle inventory analysis (LCI) phase, the life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) phase, the life cycle interpretation phase, reporting and critical review of the LCA, limitations of the LCA, the relationship between the LCA phases, and conditions for use of value choices and optional elements.
The Japan Carbon Fiber Manufacturers Association
https://www.carbonfiber.gr.jp/english/tech/lci.html
The EPLCA is the EU’s knowledge base that responds to business and policy needs towards sustainable production and consumption.
The EPLCA supports the methodological development of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for the analysis of supply chains and end-of-life waste management.
The EPLCA fosters LCA as an essential integrated environmental assessment in support to the EU policy making process and the ambition of Green Deal, and many other policy initiatives, with specific reference to the Circular Economy Action Plan, the Farm2Fork, the Biodiversity Strategy, the Chemical strategy, and many more.
Read more here.
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LCA screening assessment
LCA screening assessment
LCA is starting to be applied across the industry but it is difficult to know how to compare the results or know the quality of the LCA. This screening template, a resource requested as part of the March 2022 digital check-in, aims to help the industry understand what questions they should ask about any LCA. It is based on the ISO 14044:2006 standard.
An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) transparently reports objective, comparable and third-party verified data about products and services' environmental performances from a lifecycle perspective. (Environdec.com)
It is not widely used in yachting but standardisation of measuring product environmental impacts is a key topic of the EU Circular Economy Action plan. However, the standard being tested by the EU, Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCRs), may not be comptable with EPDs on the basis that “existing life cycle-based standards do not provide sufficient specificity… to support comparability of environmental claims”
Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules Guidance’ Version 6.3, p.23, May 2018, https://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/smgp/pdf/PEFCR_guidance_v6.3.pdf
LCA DATABASE OF CASE STUDIES & TOOLS
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LCA resources
MarineShift360
MarineShift360
MarineShift360 is a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool designed specifically for the marine industry to accelerate positive, sustainable changes within the design and manufacturing stages.
On the website you can access a free version of the tool as well as some case studies on it's use.
OpenLCA
OpenLCA
OpenLCA is an open source, free software which can be used with a variety of databases, some free some paid. The website also includes a range of resources including case studies, learning resources & training links.
EuCIA
EuCIA
Headquartered in Brussels, the European Composites Industry Association (EuCIA) represents European national composite associations as well as industry-specific sector groups at EU level.
The EuCIA offers a free Eco Impact Calculator.
You can use this calculator to estimate the environmental impact of composite parts, based on a pre-selected list of raw materials and conversion processes. The Eco Impact Calculator will generate an Eco Report after all required fields have been filled out, which will indicate the embodied energy and the CO2e emission equivalents, as well as the characterized impacts according to the ILCD methodology. Users will have the option to generate, save and download a full report.
Case studies
11th Hour Racing Team
11th Hour Racing Team
In 2021 11th Hour Racing Team completed a full life cycle assessment of its new IMOCA offshore race boat. The study processed 1,600 lines of raw data and 71 different assessments to include the major composite components of the mould, hull, and deck and included the design phase, rigging, sails, and electronics. As a result, the study set a new high-resolution benchmark for a race-ready IMOCA.
Read the case study here.
Read the full Design and Build Report here.
Leyton Class 40
Leyton Class 40
In 2018 the Leyton Group, with skipper Arthur Le Vaillant, undertook an LCA of a class 40 build and an analysis of the impact of a Route du Rhum campaign with the Class 40.
Read the case study here.
Maxi-Yacht Arca SGR
Maxi-Yacht Arca SGR
Originally built in 2003 and launched as Wild Thing, winning the Sydney Hobart in 2003 and Barcelona in 2005, this yacht was then written off after running aground off Formentera. The Fast and Furio sailing team found and rebuilt her in 2018 and undertook an LCA of the rebuild process, comparing it to the original build impact. It is the first yacht to have undertaken an environmental product declaration (EPD).
Access the EPD here.
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