Workshops & seminars, Conferences & lectures

Uncovering sustainable pathways with life cycle assessment

Date & time

Thursday, March 20, 2025
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Speaker(s)

Shannon Lloyd, Ivan Kantor, Alireza Adli, Mina Daneshmandi, Neda Nikbakht, Mohammad Reza Seyedabadi, Juan Sebastian Rojas, Parsa Shirzad, and Martin Zorrilla

Cost

This event is free and open to the public but please register

Organization

Loy. Coll. Diversity & Sustainability & Sustainability Res. Cntr / Dept. Design & Computation Arts

Contact

Rebecca Tittler

Where

Henry F. Hall Building
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Room H 1220

Accessible location

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This session will start with an interactive exercise to explore a real-life business sustainability challenge and uncover the power of life cycle assessment (LCA). Seven Concordia graduate students will then give three-minute thesis presentations. Each will explain how they are using LCA to inform the design of environmentally-preferable systems. Finally, Professor Ivan Kantor will moderate an engaging Q&A session with student researchers and workshop participants.

Student Presenters:

Alireza Adli (CIISE), Software framework for life cycle carbon emissions

Mina Daneshmandi (MAIE), Environmental and worker health LCA of surface engineering

Neda Nikbakht (MAIE), LCA of hydrogen powered business aircraft

Mohammad Reza Seyedabadi (BCEE), Urban scale LCA of the built environment

Juan Sebastian Rojas (CME), Accelerating LCA coverage through a component-level approach

Parsa Shirzad (CME), Cradle-to-gate: bio vs. fossil chemical pathways

Martin Zorrilla (MAIE), Sustainable and resilient aviation supply chains

See the whole conference schedule and register here

This event is brought to you by the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre, and the Department of Design and Computation Arts in collaboration with 4TH SPACE, with the support of the Office of the Vice-President, Research, Innovation and Impact; the School of Community and Public Affairs and First Peoples Studies; the Science College; and the Departments of Communication Studies; Geography, Planning and Environment; and Political Science at Concordia University.

This event will contribute to the Sustainability in Research section of Concordia's Sustainability Action Plan by increasing the visibility of sustainability research at Concordia.

This event is part of:

In.site2 and Sustainability across disciplines