Video: What is a Life Cycle Assessment and how is it applied within the Willy Naessens Group?
A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a method used to assess the environmental impact of a product over its entire lifetime.
This means that all the phases of the product's life cycle are taken into account: from the extraction of raw materials, production, transport and use, up to and including the end of its useful life (such as recycling and waste disposal).
Why is an LCA important to the Willy Naessens Group?
- Insight into environmental impact: Conducting an LCA gives us a complete picture of a product's overall ecological footprint (in our case concrete elements). This insight helps us to understand which phases have the most influence on CO₂ emissions.
- Identifying areas for improvement: LCA results enable the Willy Naessens Group to work with more focus on improvements, such as reducing energy consumption, optimising production processes and choosing more sustainable materials.
- Transparency and trust: The LCA shows that the Willy Naessens Group has an eye for sustainable improvements within the Group.
In this video, Wim Moerman, CSO – R&D Manager and Michiel Bekaert, Sustainability Engineer, explain the life cycle analysis of concrete elements.
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