In today’s world of overflowing information and complex interwoven processes, environmentally-committed businesses have a growing number of challenges to tackle. In such business environment, life cycle analysis (LCA) has come to be considered as a helpful device.
It is the conventional understanding of the notion of ‘device’ that has led Pli to carry out an investigation into alternative approaches to LCA. The traditional perception defines this ‘device’ as an operational tool, whether physical or electronic (i.e. software), used mainly to calculate input and output, therefore inevitably focused solely on manufacturing. Instead, during the productive time of my internship at Pli, we strived to develop a method that could embrace as many sides as possible to a product development process.
Now the initial findings of this investigation have been gathered in a white paper format, and is here for everyone to review (click here).
LCA representation of the Reee chair concept
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