LCA

Life Cycle Assessment - LCA is a methodology characterized by a completely new approach about the analysis of industrial systems: from the typical traditional engineering, which focuses on the separate study of individual elements of the production process, is followed by an overview of the system (life cycle), in which all the processes of transformation, starting from raw material extraction to disposal of end of life, are taken into account as contributing to the finished product.

This way of studying the production system belongs to a wider culture that constitutes an alternative to the traditional industrial development model because the industrial production is studied as a part of sustainable development, a development whose fundamental aims are natural resources conservation and minimization of human activities environmental effects. Industrial production is therefore an essential part of this new organizational and management model of development.

Governed by ISO 14040 - ISO 14044, the methodology has been widely spread in various fields and is the basis of selection criteria for environmental labels environmental (eco), GPP (Green Public Procurement) and the development of so-called best technologies (BAT-Best Available Techniques). 

Life Cycle Assessment, ecoprofile and ecobalance studies
The study LCE offers his experience to make environmental assessments of a product through the application of LCA methodology and the correct interpretation and application of the LCA results . 

Critical review of LCA studies [ISO 14040/14044]