NMG Lunchtime Seminar Series: Focus in Life Cycle Assessment /Social LCA

 

You are invited to join us for our monthly virtual event, where the focus will be on Life Cycle Assessment /Social LCA

You will hear from

Dr Mar Riera 

Senior Consultant and Researcher, ENT Environment & Management | Fundació ENT, Spain

• From Waste Wood to Social Value: Assessing the Human Impacts of Circular Timber Solutions

Dr Ulrike Kirschnick

Researcher, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

• Using LCA to assess and guide prospects of the bioeconomy: Examples from the composite sector

Vineet Shah

Associate Researcher,  Technology for Wood and Natural Fiber-Based Materials; Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research;  Fraunhofer Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut WKI

• LCA of biocomposites in automotive applications

• Vineet will present research focusing on LCA of natural materials based on his work on LCA of flax fibres (as biocomposites) for use in automotive components

Priscilla Choi, Tim Emery, Nghi Tran

• Hexa House: bamboo as a renewable structural material for scalable affordable housing.

Preliminary agenda

13:00 – Start and greetings
13:05 – Presentations
14:00 – General discussion
14.30 – Close