Advancing Life Cycle Engineering to meet United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals

摘要

This volume of Procedia CIRP holds the proceedings of the 25th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering held inCopenhagen, 30 April – 2 May 2018. The conference was organized by the Quantitative Sustainability Assessment Division atthe Management Engineering department at Technical University of Denmark. 25 years after the series of LCE conference wasinitiated by Professor Leo Alting and hosted by Technical University of Denmark in 1993, the conference thus returns toCopenhagen. Over these 25 years the Life Cycle Engineering conferences have been organized and hosted by institutions allover the world under the auspices of CIRP. They have matured and grown in attendance and scientific quality, and have madesignificant impact by strengthening, developing and disseminating Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) research and applicationthrough collaborations between universities and manufacturing industry. The 25th anniversary is celebrated at the conference, andwe honour and credit the many stakeholders that over the 25 years have made valuable contributions to drive and develop theLCE activities from an initial focus on disassembly and life cycle assessment to a current coverage of all aspects involved inengineering the life cycle.