Life Cycle Management of Products and Services
The life cycle management of products and services topical conference offers a unique opportunity to focus on life cycle methodology and case studies. This topical conference aims at reporting on the progress of the life cycle approach in Canada, as well as to continue to raise awareness of the approach, facilitate its implementation and stimulate its method development, particularly as it pertains to the energy, pulp and paper and bioproduct sectors.
Confirmed keynotes
Tom McKone 
University of California, Berkeley
Jean Michel Gires
Scope
This topical one day conference is dedicated to the life cycle approach, its tools and its implementation through case studies. The proposed conferences include :
The proposed topics are :
- Life cycle inventory methodology and life cycle impact assessment
- Life cycle applied to the energy sector – Case studies
- Life cycle applied to the pulp and paper sector – Case studies
- Life cycle applied to the bioproduct sector – Case studies
Publication
This forum will be included in the WCCE8 proceedings. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (to be confirmed).
Schedule
One day conference (12 speakers)
Organizers
Sandra Estrela
Coordonnatrice- Documentation et communications /
Documentation and Communication Coordinator
CIRAIG- Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur
le cycle de vie des produits, procédés et services
École Polytechnique de Montréal
Département de génie chimique
C.P. 6079, succ. Centre-Ville
Montréal (Qc) Canada
T. 514.340.4711 ext. 4122
F. 514.340.5913
www.ciraig.org