LCA & Design – How to bring LCA to the beginning of the innovation process

Co-create to drive change. Our recent rapid prototype project to ‘bring LCA to the beginning of innovation’ revealed that

1. 1. Life cycle perspectives are used in different ways throughout the design/innovation process within accepted stage gates;

1. 1. As LCA practitioners it’s our calling to create tools and processes suited to these stages so they’re ready to be used at the time of need; and

1. 1. We can’t do this alone.

During this webinar Jeremy Faludi (TU Delft) and Jim Fava (co-founder of FSLCI and Executive Director with Anthesis) shared their insights and the importance of co-creation of the tools to embed LCT/LCA right from the beginning of innovation. Time was made available for participants to also share their learnings. The collective goal is to add Sustainability/LCT/LCA criteria to decision-making as costs, reliability, performance, and safety are today to accelerate the purchase and use of products with both positive sustainability and business impacts.