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Life Cycle Costing

Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes

von: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
139,09 €
Verlag:	Springer
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	09.10.2023
ISBN/EAN:	9783031409936
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

Life Cycle Costing (LCC) is a well-known and popular method to evaluate the economic sustainability, which as the term implies is structured on the life cycle of a product or process. LCC is a method primarily consisting of estimating the total cost of a product, taking into account the whole life cycle of the product as well as the direct and external costs. It is one of the important methods and tools under the sustainability umbrella. This book describes the concept of LCC and offers several interesting case studies.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Application of Life Cycle Costing in Building Energy Performance.- Chapter 2: Life Cycle Cost Analysis of Nearly-Zero Energy Buildings: An Introduction to the Methodologies.- Chapter 3:Analysis of Life Cycle Cost, Barriers and Strategies towards Enhancing its Application: Case Study of Commercial Buildings .- Chapter 4: Applications of Life Cycle Costing in Waste-to-Energy Projects.- Chapter 5: Life Cycle Cost Assessment of Various Wave Energy Converters (Based on Energy & Carbon Intensity).- Chapter 6: Towards Optimising Life Cycle Costs of High-Rise Residential Apartments: A Case of Sri Lanka.

Autorenportrait

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu is currently the Chief Sustainability Officer at Green Story Inc, Canada, based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decade's of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 170 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment, Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.

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Life Cycle Costing (LCC) is a well-known and popular method to evaluate the economic sustainability, which as the term implies is structured on the life cycle of a product or process. LCC is a method primarily consisting of estimating the total cost of a product, taking into account the whole life cycle of the product as well as the direct and external costs. It is one of the important methods and tools under the sustainability umbrella. This book describes the concept of LCC and offers several interesting case studies.

Sonderbeitrag

Describes the concept and basic ideas surrounding Life Cycle Costing Offers information on use of waste products for energy Contains eight chapters by various scholars