Life Cycle Management from Global to Local

Prof. Dr. Marzia Traverso is Professor and Head of the Institute for Sustainability in Construction at RWTH Aachen University since June 1, 2017. She received her doctorate in environmental physics from the University of Palermo and is an environmental engineer specializing in life cycle assessment and sustainability performance in the construction and transportation sectors, as well as the strategic environmental assessment of urban transportation systems.

• Part I:Methodological and Conceptual Advancements in LCA and LCSA.- Streamlining life cycle assessment and natural capital accounting: Identifying synergies and challenges for enhanced Sustainability evaluation.- Sustainability assessment in industrial R&D: Challenges and contributions to decision-making.- Integration of life cycle and criticality assessments: Case-based investigation of lithium-ion battery technologies.- Variability of electricity mixes: Does using a time-aware database make a difference? How timing of electric vehicle charging influences LCA results.- Part II:Digitalisation, Artificial Intelligence enhancing data availability, traceability robustness in LCM.- Integrating large language models into the in-silico environmental assessment of new chemicals and materials for SSbD.- Dynamic digital product passports: Advancing circularity and sustainable innovation in the steel industry supply chain.- A manufacturer experience: EPD as "PDF anno 2018" to EPD as "DPP anno 2025".- How unsuitable data and data choices can negatively influence reliability and costs of decarbonization efforts, supplier choices and sustainability approaches in companies.- Towards artificial intelligence and blockchain enabled frameworks to improve critical review control and EPD verification process.- Part III – Carbon and environmental footprinting in Industry and Business.- A combined standardization of LCA and mass balance: Allowing the certification of PCFs for mass balanced products.- Scaling-up life cycle thinking into corporate footprinting: The Electrolux Group strategy.- Applying matrix-based modelling for GHG emission forecasting and corporate decarbonization strategy evaluation: A steel manufacturing case study.- Estimating embodied impacts of UCL new student centre using construction KPI data.- Integrating LCA in the design process. A BIM based tool to quantify the environmental footprint of railway infrastructure projects.- Trenchless technologies for modern and sustainable infrastructures.- Part IV: Life cycle evaluations of energy Systems and Technologies.- Life cycle assessment of thermal energy storage in buildings.- Biomethane splitting: The hindered carbon removal potential of biohydrogen.- Flying with liquid hydrogen: An assessment of CFRP fuel tank manufacturing in the aviation industry and its challenges.- Life cycle assessment and levelized cost of storage of secondary- and primary-use LFP batteries for energy storage systems.- Life cycle assessment of fluff residue gasification as a substitute for natural gas.- Part V: Embedding circularity in LCM.- Life cycle assessment of a novel chemical recycling technology for conversion of waste to olefins.- Aurora Cavaliere, Massimiliano Materazzi, Andrea Paulillo, Paola Lettieri, Semra Bakkaloglu and Nilay Shah.- Life cycle assessment of PVC recycling: Expanding recyclable fractions through the CIRC-PVC project.- Enhancing circularity of strategic value chains through life cycle thinking – the example of JRC scientific support to the forthcoming vehicles EU Regulation.-Assessing and communicating potential environmental benefits of the circular economy: A case study on ski core circularity.- Part VI:LCM supporting product and organizational reporting.- Application of LCA for pharmaceuticals: Lessons from a ten-year programme in AstraZeneca.- Unlocking synergies between PCF and EPD reporting: Industry's path to a sustainable future or mere fantasy.-Sustainable innovation or merely reporting? State of the art of assessing scope 3 emissions of organizational procurement.- User studies on visualisation and reporting of life cycle sustainability performance of products.- Part VII: Social Sustainability performance in industry.- Advancing social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) for public services: Evaluating water supply systems in Venice and Treviso.- Towards sustainable steelmaking: Selecting social impact categories and developing reference scales for the German steel industry.- Integrating social aspects into safe and sustainable by design (SSbD): A mapping of European project contributions.- Socio-economic and climate impacts of increased legume production for human consumption in Norway.- Part VIII – Policy, Regulatory Frameworks and Standards.- Green public procurement: A decision support tool for quantifying environmental impacts of asphalt mixture projects.-Bridging standards: Harmonising sustainability assessment methods for biobased products in construction.- Toward an increasing standardization of LCA data reporting: The experience of aluminium's industry.- Benchmarking carbon emissions and incorporating sustainability metrics in road construction procurement.- LCA-RSIN: The UK LCA regulatory science and innovation network.- From voluntary initiatives and collaboration to regulation: Embodied carbon progress in Australia and New Zealand.- The role of LCA in policy for enabling Sustainable Consumption and Production: A caste study from South Africa.