Introduction
The MoRST LCI initiative project sought to investigate LCI practice in a New Zealand context in order to gain a better understanding of the current status of life-cycle inventory and its relationship to the broader application of life cycle thinking in New Zealand. As such, it is deliberately broad and investigative in nature. It seeks to paint a picture of which approaches, methods, tools and data are in use by practitioners currently. It also seeks to identify challenges and opportunities, with a focus on a nationwide, cross-industry context.
This study is not aimed at producing an exhaustive, detailed list of existing life cycle databases. This is likely to be the subject of a subsequent practitioner-led effort to maintain a dynamic overview of past, current, and future datasets held in NZ.
The research includes the development of a list of practitioners who are currently using Life Cycle Assessment within their work. This is a qualified list which captures all key practitioners, although it could be investigated further.
It captures information about a wide range of research and commercial applications of the method, which includes infrastructure modelling and maintenance, for example, by large asset management firms. Even though the sample cannot be considered complete, the authors believe it nevertheless provides a very useful overview of activity, and highlights the main practitioners, identifying their respective areas of focus.
This report package is structure into three components, the short form executive summary report (separate document) a long form (this bound report) and a Data disk (with all resources and research work contributing to this report).
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