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Ostfold Research at the Life Cycle Management 2011 Conference in Berlin

Kari-Anne Lyng, Anne Rønning, Bjørn Ivar Vold and Ingunn Saur Modahl participated at the LCM 2011 in Berlin 28th – 31st August 2011. Ostfold Research presented a state-of-the-art study for the buildings/construction sector (poster) and a case study of biodiesel from the Borregaard biorefinery (poster and oral presentation).
The Life Cycle Management conference series is established as one of the leading events worldwide in the field of environmental, economical and social sustainability. The feature of LCM are practical solutions for the implementation of life cycle approaches into strategic and operational decision-making. This year’s conference included 180 presentations and 3 poster sessions, and well over 500 conference delegates from science, industry, NGOs and public bodies, representing 46 different countries, were participating.
 
To download the presentations: ‘Environmental Impacts of Ethanol from a Norwegian wood-based Biorefinery’ as a poster

The paper ‘State Of The Art Study – How is Environmental Performance Measured for Buildings/Constructions?’ was presented by a poster presentation at the conference and chosen to be published in the conference book ‘Towards Life Cycle Sustainability Management’ edited by Matthias Finkbeiner. The paper may be downloaded at Springerlink.





Ostfold Research has published a paper in the International Journal of LCA.
Ostfold Research has published the paper ‘Weighting of environmental trade-offs in CCS - an LCA case study of electricity from a fossil gas power plant with post-combustion CO2 capture, transport and storage’ in the International Journal of LCA.
Staffing News
Ostfold Research is pleased to welcome John Baxter to the team. John joined us in April 2012 and will be providing cover for Kari-Anne Lyng’s period of maternity leave. John is a chemical engineer with a background both in conducting research and in supporting and developing researchers. He formerly spent time as a researcher and as a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Surrey in the UK.
BIA Project turned a threat into an opportunity
The Research Council of Norway news about Miljøgiftkonferansen 2012 (The Hazardous Chemical Conference 2012) includes news about how the Innochem BIA (Programme for User-driven Research-based Innovation) project turned a threat – a new and complicated regulation (REACH) into a driver for innovation and development, leading to a competitive edge for Norwegian Industry.
Development of ISO 14067: Quantification and Communication of Carbon Footprint of products and services. 10th Working group meeting held in Canada, Ostfold Research took part.
The tenth meeting in ISO/TC207/SC 7/WG2 took place 21-24 November 2011 in Toronto, Canada. A large number of nations participated. The standard had before the meeting voted to DIS-status (Draft International Standard) and further progress was made during the meeting in Canada.

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