Life Cycle Tools and Approaches - Implementing change

7th August 08 Auckland

This extends the thinking in the previous sessions with an interactive tools and methods focused workshop. The session will reiterate and expand on the first two workshops, addressing the issues and impediments to implementing change within your business and for your clients.

The workshop presents an overview of life cycle thinking approaches such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Carbon Foot-printing, and Economic Input Output Modelling (EIOA) and discusses the importance of data to these approaches. However, emphasis will be on the workshop sessions in order to build further understanding of how to apply life cycle thinking, including where and how these tools are best used in the development process.

Supporting article in Prodesign: August '08

Key Learnings

Understand the key tools, techniques, and software that can be used to implement life cycle thinking in product development.
To learn about the potential applications of the tools and understand where they are best used and are most effective.
To see the horizon and potential of different techniques to enable development targets for participants when they complete the workshops.

Programme

9:30am	Introduction - Dr. Cris de Groot
9:40am	Recap and overview of workshop series - Timothy Allan
10:00am	LCA & Applications - Barbara Nebel (Scion)
10:40am	'Apply it' Workshop 1 Workshop an example LCA to understand the process.
11:40am	LCA workshop presentation and Q&A session - Barbara Nebel, Jake McLaren, Timothy Allan
12:00pm	Lunch break
12:30pm	Carbon Footprinting/GHG accounting - Sarah McLaren (Landcare Res.)
13:00pm	Economic Input Output Analysis (EIOA) - Robbie Andrew (Landcare Res.)
13:30pm	Utilising Tools & Approaches - Jake McLaren & Timothy Allan
13:50pm	'Apply it' Workshop 2 Teams will apply their learning from the three workshops to a fictional company. A range of information will be provided to discuss, interpret and make decisions, culminating in a presentation to their CEO. Results will be presented and discussed with the rest of the groups.
15:50pm	Summary of the LCT workshop series
14:00pm	Session Close Drinks and nibbles will be provided so that teams can discuss the series, thoughts, and their next steps.

Download the Workshop 3 programme