System Design for Sustainability
Course URL: https://swayam.gov.in/nd1_noc19_de03/...

Concept covered:
• LCA is a method to calculate the environmental burden of a product or services.
• ‘Fast Track’ LCA - Its suitable since one doesn’t have to spend much time on LCA and rather focus on their primary task, design or introduction of innovative products and services.
• In ‘Fast Track’ LCA, the focus is on comparing design alternatives.
• Process
o Step 1: Describe the system to be studied
o Step 2: Setting the System Boundaries
o Step 3: Setting the Functional Unit/ Declared Unit

Playlist link:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwdnzlV3ogoXD4NBvgyZJhsDUgaEB1nV3

Ms Sharmistha Banerjee
Department of Design
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati