Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Building consistency and confidence in aerospace life cycle assessments.
Introduction
Lifecycle Assessment is a method for identifying and quantifying the potential environmental impacts of a product, process or service over its entire life cycle from the extraction of the raw materials to the end-of-life of the product. Having good methods for measuring and quantifying environmental impacts is key to progressing towards aerospace industry environmental goals and to ensure continuous alignment with global regulations.
Meet the Leaders
Ana Garcia Garriga
Co-Lead
RTX (Collins Aerospace)
Olivier Grellou
Co-Lead
Airbus
Purpose
- To develop and maintain an aerospace industry voluntary standard framework for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to improve the consistency of the aerospace LCA process. Carrying out consistent LCAs can help the sector build stakeholder confidence and prepare for emerging regulations. Integrating a better LCA capability can also help build sustainability into our design processes to inform design and manufacturing choices and accelerate progress.
Benefits
- Inform design choices & accelerate improvement
- Align with emerging regulations
- Build consistency & stakeholder confidence
- Increase efficiency of the LCA process in aerospace supply chains.
Initial Objectives
- Improve fit of aerospace LCAs by defining clear boundaries, scope and input output structures
- Increased consistency of assumptions and secondary data used in aerospace LCAs
- Develop deploy and maintain an LCA aerospace standard work
Deliverables
Lifecycle Assessment Framework Version 2
IAEG seeks to develop voluntary leading-edge solutions across the value chain to promote a responsible and sustainable aerospace industry. The purpose of this document is to offer a standard framework for Lifecycle Assessments (LCA) to companies that design and manufacture products for aerospace. Version 1 of this standard framework is intended to improve the connectivity of LCA along the aerospace supply chain, both in terms of ‘fit’ and ‘consistency’.
Aerospace Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Datasets
This document is released for purpose of providing a shared vision of the environmental datasets specifically needed by the aerospace sector when conducting LCAs. It is intended for aerospace sector actors as well as for environmental data providers looking to have a vision of inputs most commonly used throughout the sector.