Developing the use of environmental impact assessment in commercial organisations: A case study of formway furniture

Proceedings of the 13th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, LCE 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 119-124

  Gamage, Gaya Babarenda ^a,b   Boyle, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Formway Furniture   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Furniture manufacturing; Life cycle assessment; SimaPro 6; Sustainable furniture design

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; FURNITURE MANUFACTURE; POLYAMIDES; RAYON;

FURNITURE DESIGN; FURNITURE MANUFACTURING; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); MANUFACTURING STAGES; PROCESSING METHOD; SIMAPRO;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84885077670     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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