IK Ingenieria company, as a member of the LLIFE HUELLAS project consortium, attended the LCM 2015, one of the most important congress on Life Cycle Assessment held internationally, and that took place last September 2015 in the French city of Bourdeaux. At this congress, the latest developments on Life Cycle Thinking were presented, both at methodological level and at strategies, projects and industries implementation level.
Along congress development, other types of initiatives related to LIFE HUELLAS project were analyzed. In this regard, great diversity of applications of the Life Cycle concep were presented. Some examples include: the analysis of different existing tools for environmental assessment of regional development and their interactions with the environment; the implementation of eco-desgin methodology based on international standards ISO 14006 in ALSTOM company; indentifying development needs of Life Cycle Thinking tools; the development of methodologies implemented in software for the infrastructure construction industry in Norway, with the goal of obtaining EPDs and demonstrate their environmental nature.