The Inaugual Symposim hosted by the Imperial Life Cycle Network on 26th March 2025. The event was attended by over 80 attendees from academia and industry, from the UK and Europe. Slides and photos from the event can be found below:
Keynotes
Marcelle McManus 'Industrial Decarbonisation: From linear to circular: a life cycle lesson'
Harriet Wallace 'How can universities contribute towards sustainable futures?'
Richard Murphy 'Filling knowledge gaps with LCA: an example of progress and challenges'
Carly Whittaker 'Comparing the life cycle carbon balances of different land use systems: Wind, solar or forests'
Paper presentations
Annette Davis, School of Architecture La Salle, Ramon Llull University
'The Impact of Lifespan Assumptions in LCA: Comparing the Replacement of Building Parts Versus Building Layers—A Housing Case Study'
Akita Bansal, University of Surrey
'Governance and systemic challenges faced by sustainable Food and Beverage (F&B) Small & Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the UK'
Evelina Nyqvist, Chalmers University of Technology
'Life cycle assessment during early-stage technology development: A focus on carbon utilisation'
Alessandro Vezzuto, Imperial College London
'A well-to-wake life cycle assessment of alternative marine fuels'
Photo highlights from the day
Mirabelle Mulls (Associate Professor in Economics, co-Director of the School of Sustainability and co-Director of the Hitachi-Imperial Centre for Decarbonisation and Natural Climate Solutions, Imperial College London) delivered the welcoming speech to open the Symposium. Which was then followed by our amazing four keynote speakers: Marcelle McManus (Professor of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Director Sustainable Energy Systems Research Centre, University of Bath), Harriet Wallace, the Director of Sustainability at Imperial College London, Richard Murphy (Professor of Life Cycle Assessment, University of Surrey) and Carly Whittaker (Senior Carbon Scientist, Forest Research).
A highlight for many at the Symposium was the panel session where Jem Woods (Professor of Sustainable Development, Imperial College London) and eight academic and industrial experts in the area of LCA discussed in depth the important of LCA for sustainable futures and what higher education institutes can do to support LCA and its use for sustainability.
