Thursday, Oct. 5

LCA and Green Building – Global Learning’s

Session chairs: J. Todd and J Fava

Panels from Three Regions:
Europe - Johannes Kreissig, Wolfram Trinius, Eva Schmincke and Kristan Steel, UK (BRE) (Invited)

Asia/Australia – Dr. Toshiharu Ikaga, Japan, Dr. Borong Lin, China, Jianrong Yang, China, and Nigel Howard, Australia

North America – Scot Horst, USA, Wayne Trusty, Canada, and Jim Fava, USA

National LCA Databases: A Panel Discussion of Activities, Successes, and Challenges

Panel chairs: Joyce Cooper (University of Washington) and Michael Deru (NREL)

Panel members: Rolf Frischknecht (EcoInvent), Sangwon Suh (University of Minnesota), Atsushi Inaba (Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), David Pennington (European Platform on Life Cycle Assessment), and the session chairs

Energy Case Studies 1: alternative transport fuels

Alternative fuels – a major step towards a sustainable road transportation of tomorrow? Challenges and potentials from a life cycle perspective
Marc Binder, Michael Faltenbacher, Martin Baitz, Harald Florin, Oliver Schuller, Matthias Fischer

Environmental and Economic Life Cycle Analyses of Hydrogen As A Transportation Fuel
Ji-Yong, Lee, Kyung-Hoon, Cha, Hyung-Seok Oh , Tae Won Lim, and Tak Hur

Life-Cycle Analysis of Alternate Pathways for Production and Delivery of Hydrogen for Vehicles
Heather Wakeley, H. Scott Matthews, W. Michael Griffin

Impact Methods 2: measures of sustainability

Social LCA – Requirements and needs
Cecilia Tiemi Makishi, Leif-Patrik Barthel, Matthias
Fischer, Klaus Sedlbauer

Comparison of Life Cycle Measures of Sustainability
Michael Bösch, Mark Huijbregts, Stefanie Hellweg

Novel Evaluation Method for Social Sustainability Affected by using ICT Services
Masayuki Tsuda, Kazue Ichino Takahashi, Jiro Nakamura, Shiro Nishi, Mika Takaoka

Break

Buildings 1: methodological and data issues

Two Construction Hybrid Life Cycle Assessments
Aurora L. Sharrard, Melissa Bilec, H. Scott Matthews, and Robert Ries

Life Cycle Assessment of the Australian Building Material Requirement - Identifying Potential for Reducing Impacts
Tim Grant, Andrew Walker-Morrison, Scott McAllister, Franzi Poldy, Deni Greene

The Weighting Step in Life Cycle Impact Assessment: Results from the Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES) Stakeholder Panel
Thomas P. Gloria, Barbara C. Lippiatt , Jennifer Hall

Estimating the Required Global Warming Offsets to Achieve a Carbon Neutral Synthetic Field Turf System Installation
Lindita Bushi, Jamie Meil, Stephanie Foster

North American Industry Database Projects: A Panel Discussion of Activities, Successes, and Challenges

Panel chair: Michael Levy (American Plastics Council)
Panel members (to be verified): Bruce Lippke (University of Washington), Ken Martchek (Alcoa), Greg Crawford (American Iron and Steel Institute), Candace Wheeler (GM)

Energy Case Studies 2: biofuels

Life Cycle Assessment of a Biodiesel plant
Haydée Yrigoyen, Francesc Castells

Greenhouse gases emission in soybean biodiesel life cycle: methylic route x ethylic route
Gil Anderi da Silva, Luiz Alexandre Kulay

Eco-efficiency Analysis: Case study of palm biodiesel in Brazil
Gil Anderi da Silva, Fernanda Cristina Vianna, Mirian Tiemi Zanchetta

Fuel Life Cycle Assessment of Bioethanol Produced from Corn Stover in US Transportation
May Wu and Michael Wang

Inventory and Interpretation Methods 1: methodological issues and innovations

Development of a Mixed-Unit Input-Output Model for Life-Cycle Assessment
Troy Hawkins, Chris Hendrickson, Cortney Higgins, H. Scott

Building an Electricity-focused Economic Input-output Tool to Analyze Future Power Generation Scenarios
Joe Marriott

The environmental relevance of capital goods in life cycle assessments of products and services
Rolf Frischknecht, Hans-Jörg Althaus, Christian Bauer, Gabor Doka, Roberto Dones, Thomas Heck, Niels Jungbluth, Daniel Kellenberger, Thomas Nemecek

Open and Free: Bringing Life Cycle Opportunity to All MarketsGregory A. Norris

12:00 Noon

Lunch - H. Scott Matthews (CMU)

Buildings 2: dissemination systems and tools

Life Cycle Analysis: Applications and Implications for the Design of Greener Buildings
Wayne Trusty

Making Building Product LCAs Useful and Used
Robert K. Watson, Kirsten Ritchie

How to provide LCA information of building materials in an efficient way
Marc Binder, Johannes Kreissig, Harald Florin, Anna Braune, Cecilia Makishi

International Activities 1: databases

Development of an Australian national life cycle inventory database
Tim Grant and Ambalavanar Tharumarajah

Development of Steel Products Inventory Database from Statistics and PRTR Data in Japan
Kiyotaka TAHARA, Toshio ONOYE, Atsushi INABA

Contribution to the Brazilian Database: Off-set paper LCA
Luiz Alexandre Kulay, Guilherme Galdiano, Gil Anderi da Silva

Energy Case Studies 3: natural gas and oil sands sources

Life Cycle Assessment and Economic Analysis Of Wind Turbines Using Monte Carlo Simulation - this presentation will be first
Peter T. LaPuma, Edward J. Liberman

Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment of Alberta’s Oil Sands Industry
Alex Charpentier, Shiva Habibi, Heather L. MacLean

Economic and Environmental Impacts of Alternative Energy Sources for Canada’s Oil Sands Development: a Hybrid LCA Approach
Joule Bergerson and David Keith [presentation to be given by Alex Charpentier]

Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Liquefied Natural Gas
Paulina Jaramillo, W. Michael Griffin, H. Scott Matthews

Inventory and Interpretation Methods 2: issues in energy and transport modeling

Modeling Commercial Transport in LCA
Liila Woods and Joyce Cooper

The Ecology of Scale: Data Assessment of Beef, Pork and Wine
Elmar H. Schlich, István Barotfi, Ilona Biegler, Bettina Hardtert, Frank Krause, Michaela Luz, Laszlo Pitlik, Susanne Schroeder, Johanna Schroeber and Sabine Winnebeck

Comparative Life-cycle Assessments Using Electricity Consumption and Generation Mixes
Joe Marriott
Generic Energy Models in Life Cycle Assessment
Matthias Fischer, Oliver Schuller, Cecilia Makishi

Break

Buildings 3: case studies

Comparative Life Cycle Analysis of Five Low Slope Roofing Systems
Stanley P. Graveline

Life Cycle Assessment of Carpet Products
Yong Li, Evan Griffing, Michael Overcash, and Matthew Realff

SUSTAINABILITY IN HOSPITALITY SECTOR: LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT
Aysem Berrin CAKMAKLI, Soofia Tahira ELIAS-OZKAN

International Activities 2: multifaceted efforts

Strategy for the second phase of the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative – Bringing science-based life cycle approaches into practice
J. Fava, H.A. Udo de Haes, G. Sonnemann, G. Norris, A. Quiros, S. Valdivia, B. De Leeuw

Diagnosis of LCA in Brazil
Gil Anderi da Silva

Apeironpro, Software for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) And Environmental Performance Evaluation (EPE)
Edgar Botero, Carlos Naranjo, Julián Aguirre

Energy Case Studies 4: electricity sources

Evaluation of Environmental Impacts of Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cell by Using LCA Aspect
Sate Sampattagul, Muanjit Chamsilpa, Tanongkiat Kiatsiriroat, Yucho Sadamichi and Seizo Kato

Life Cycle Design of Emerging Energy Generation Technologies
Seung Jin Lee and Joyce Cooper

Hydropower Life-Cycle Inventory: A Brazilian case study
Luiz Alexandre Kulay, Flávio de Miranda Ribeiro, Gil Anderi da Silva

Inventory and Interpretation Methods 3: data quality, optimization, and interpretation

Analytical Tools and Algorithms for Life Cycle Assessment
Sangwon Suh, Reinout Heijungs

Improving the Quality of LCI Data via the Laws of Thermodynamics
Heui-Seok Yi and Bhavik R. Bakshi [presentation to be given by Yi Zhang]

IDENTIFICATION OF KEY ENVIRONMENTAL LOADS USING A LIFE CYCLE APPROACH
Jacob Madsen, Michael Collins, Terry Coleman

Evening