Lecture:
Labelling of materials and Life Cycle Assessments
19:00h
Day six, Wednesday 14 September
Bošnjački institut, Sarajevo

 

Almedina Hadžič (Sarajevo, 1981) earned her degree in Product Design on the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo (2004). Her masters degree thesis was on the subject Application of Life Cycle Analysis in a Design cycle. Since 2006 she has done independent research of Life cycle of various day-to-day products.
Almedina teaches Design Technology in International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme since 2005. She has great interest in Design curriculum development and in 2007. she was appointed a position of assistant examiner for the subject Design Technology with the IBO. For three years she was a Creativity, Action, Service coordinator leading successful student-run social and environmentally responsible projects at Druga Gimnazija Sarajevo.

Materials labeling and Life Cycle Assessment
Life cycle assessment is a tool to analyze the impacts of a process, product, or system over the entire life cycle from raw materials extraction, parts manufacturing, use, and end-of-life. The term 'life cycle' refers to the notion that a fair, holistic assessment requires the assessment of raw material production, manufacture, distribution, use and disposal including all intervening transportation steps necessary or caused by the product's existence. The sum of all those steps - or phases - is the life cycle of the product. The concept also can be used to optimize the environmental performance of a single product.
Eco-labeling is Life Cycle Assessment in action! There is a whole array of green building materials in the industry but the labeling system itself of green materials is various and scattered. Many certification programs are available for various products used in buildings such as Green Seal, Energy Star, the Carpet and Rug Institute green label, Blue Angel and many others. Many labels, such as flammable and toxic, are often based on single criteria and may be required by law for a product. Green labels are based on a variety of criteria and some are internationally accepted.