incorporating lifecycle approaches in the building sector
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A joint organisation
of UNEP & SETAC
Incorporating Life Cycle Approaches
in the Building Sector
Overview
• Who we are
• Life Cycle Approach: What? Why?
• Life Cycle Approaches in the Building Sector
• Take-home messages
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WHO WE ARE
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Who we are – UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative
a public private partnership
Vision: A world where life cycle approaches are mainstreamed
Mission: Enable the global use of credible life cycle knowledge for more sustainable societies.
Building the SCIENCE Supporting the DEMAND Building the CAPACITY
Objective 1: Enhance the global
consensus and relevance of existing
and emerging life cycle methodologies and data management
Objective 2: Expand capability
worldwide to apply and to improve life cycle approaches; making them operational for
organisations
Objective 3: Communicate current life cycle knowledge
and be the global voice of the Life Cycle community to influence
and partner with stakeholders
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LIFE CYCLE APPROACH
WHO WE ARE
Incorporating Life Cycle Approaches in the Building Sector
Life Cycle of product or service
Incorporating Life Cycle Approaches in the Building Sector
• Product System
• All life cycle stages
• Multiple environmental
impacts
Life Cycle Thinking Creates Opportunities
Time Spent
Opportunities
Upstream Opportunities:
Building up better alliances, access to limited resources,
stability of supply, etc.
high
low
Value Chain Source: Adapted from WWF-UK 2003
Downstream Opportunities:
Customer satisfaction and loyalty, improved
brand image, etc.
Disposal • Use Sale
Manufacturing
Transport Production/
Extraction
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LIFE CYCLE APPROACHES IN
THE BUILDING SECTOR
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LIFE CYCLE APPROACH
WHO WE ARE
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• Identify the best opportunities in decisions such as
• Best to retrofit or demolish and re-build?
• “pay-back” time for renewable energy installation?
• Wooden vs. ceramic flooring?
• Optimal thickness for insulating layer?
• Etc.
• (while avoiding burden-shifting across the supply chain)
Life Cycle in the building sector
RAW MATERIALS, PRE-MANUFACTURE CONSTRUCTION USE
DECONSTRUCTION, DEMOLITION
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Key: focus attention on hotspots
• Relative hotspots of buildings may be changing
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Value Chain
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•Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) - A complex value chain (simplified),
•“EEB Facts and Trends”, 2007
Life Cycle Approach also facilitates identifying which actor
in the value chain is best placed to address specific issues
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• DATA, DATA, DATA…
• Methods/indicators for assessing and
communicating building performance
• Tools to share information and guide decision
making
• Networks, sharing best practice…
What do we need for this?
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a. Global capability development
a. Communication strategy b. LC Platform: clearing house
and social media
5. Communication &
stakeholder outreach
4. Capability Development
& implementation
a. Product sustainability meta
specification
b. Knowledge mining
a. Global database management network
& training
b. Key environmental indicators based
on mature environmental approaches
c. Life Cycle Assessment of
Organisations
1. Methodologies
2. Data
3. Product sustainability
information
Flagship projects These projects are
considered as the most important in the group,
especially in terms of establishing a public image
Life Cycle Initiative –
Summary of Flagship Projects
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TAKE HOME MESSAGES
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LCA IN THE BUILDING SECTOR
LIFE CYCLE APPROACH
WHO WE ARE
Incorporating Life Cycle Approaches in the Building Sector
Take Home Messages
• The Life Cycle Approach helps focusing on the
key opportunities to increase resource
efficiency
• Avoiding unintended burden shifts / trade-offs
• The Life Cycle perspective opens up
improvement and collaboration opportunities
• Many initiatives and tools exist already
• Need for coordination, collaboration, capacity
building… ?
• Build them into business practice and public policy
Incorporating Life Cycle Approaches in the Building Sector
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A joint organisation
of UNEP & SETAC
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