Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP
The development of sustainable products calls for a comparison of different design variants – it is important here not to compare apples with oranges!
Sustainability assessment
Strategic consultation
The benefits of Life Cycle Assessment and its methods lie in support for industrial and environmental decision making in the field of sustainability. This relates to the following areas::
- Improvement of ecological and economic performance
- Preventing problems from shifting to other phases of the life cycle
- Comparison and optimization of different design variants under aspects of sustainability
- Analysis of the product life cycle in the course of development, in order to identify and eliminate weak points at an early stage
- Increasing energy and resource efficiency
- Reducing strategic risks for the company
- Marketing instrument
- Support for compliance with legal requirements