A computational tool for environmental impact assessment of defence materiel during their wholelife cycle - yearly report 2011

Authors:

  • Camilla E Andersson

Publish date: 2011-12-30

Report number: FOI-R--3370--SE

Pages: 15

Written in: Swedish

Keywords:

  • Life cycle analyses
  • life cycle costs
  • LCA
  • LCC
  • procurement
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Abstract

The project "A computational tool for environmental impact assessment of defence materiel during their whole life cycle" aims to create a tool to evaluate and quantify aspects of defense material through its entire lifecycle. Tools of this kind are an important asset to the Armed Forces (FM) as they are required to take environmental issues into account in all procurement. The Defence Materiel Administration has been using the existing LCC (Life Cycle Costs) tool CATLOC for several years when calculating traditional life-cycle costs at bigger procurements of defence materiel. This report describes the work of an environment module to CATLOC, developed by FOI in 2011. The new tool, called Environmental-LCC, has been developed by FMV, FOI, KTH and Systecon. By using the Environmental-LCC tool environmental issues will also be included in the calculation of lifecycle costs.