Welcome to SMLCE

Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) is defined as engineering activities with a life cycle view and thinking that aim to fulfil the needs of both present and future generation without exceeding the boundaries of Earth’s life support system. The methods and tools used in life cycle engineering must support reducing the total environmental impact associated with technology change and volume increase from one product generation to another, in order to ensure that new product technologies stay within their environmental space as derived from the planetary boundaries. Several methods, such as Absolute Environmental Impact Assessment (AEIA), LCA (Life Cycle Assessment), LCC (Life-Cycle Costing), and Eco-design, are applied in order to analyse the data and make decision during the upstream and downstream of the product development. LCE is an iterative process for continuous improvement of the sustainable performance of the product, process, system and the facility involved during the product life cycle towards achieving environmental sustainability targets (e.g., net-zero) as informed by the planetary boundaries.