Environmental Impact Assessment and Life Cycle Assessment are processes to evaluate the resource consumption and environmental burdens associated with a product, process, package, or activity. These assessments encompass the identification and quantification of energy and material usage, as well as environmental releases across all stages of the life cycle, the assessment of the impact of these energy and material uses and releases to the environment, and the evaluation and implementation of opportunities to effect environmental improvement. There are tools and techniques designed to help in environmental management and, longer term, in sustainable development. LCA is a technique for tracing out all the environmental effects and resource needs through manufacture, use and disposal.

Publications

1. Development of a Semi-Quantitative Pre-LCA Tool
S. K. Ong, T. H. Koh and A. Y. C. Nee, 1999, The International Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Vol. 89-90, 574 — 582. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0924-0136(99)00059-X

2. A Streamlined Life-Cycle Assessment Tool for the Production of Printers
S. K. Ong and A. Y. C. Nee, 1999, The International Journal of Manufacturing Science & Technology, Vol. 1, No. 1, 25 — 37.

3. Environmental Life Cycle Cost Analysis of Products
D. Senthil Kumaran, S. K. Ong, R. B. H. Tan and A. Y. C. Nee, 2001, Environmental Management and Health, Vol. 12, No. 3, 260 — 276. https://doi.org/10.1108/09566160110392335

4. Assessing the Environmental Impact of Materials Processing Techniques Using an Analytical Hierarchy Process Method
S.K. Ong, T.H. Koh and A.Y.C. Nee, 2001, International Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Vol. 113, No. 1-3, 424 — 431. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0924-0136(01)00618-5

5. A Tool for Quick Assessment of Environmental Impact and Implications of Manufacturing Processes and Products
S.K. Ong, 2001, International Journal for Manufacturing Science & Production, Vol. 4, No. 1, 51 — 69. https://doi.org/10.1515/IJMSP.2001.4.1.51

6. Evaluation of Existing Life Cycle Cost Analysis Methodologies (Link)
D. Senthil Kumaran, S.K. Ong, R.B.H. Tan and A.Y.C. Nee, 2002, Corporate Environmental Strategy, Vol. 9, No. 1, 30 — 39. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1066-7938(01)00141-5

7. A Proposed Tool to Integrate Environmental Economical Assessments of Products
D. Senthil Kumaran, S.K. Ong, A.Y.C. Nee and R.B.H. Tan, 2003, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Vol. 23, No. 1, 51 — 72. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0195-9255(02)00032-X

8. Technology & Innovation Management Strategies for Green Manufacturing.
A. Sharma, S. K. Ong and A. Y. C. Nee, 1999, Proceedings of the Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology, PICMET’99, 25-29 July 1999, Portland, Oregan, United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.1999.807781

9. Environmental Life Cycle Cost Analysis of Products
D. Senthil Kumaran, S. K. Ong and A. Y. C. Nee, 2000, Proceedings of the International Conference & Exhibition on Life Cycle Assessment: Tools for Sustainability, InLCA, 25-27 April 2000, Virgina, USA, p150.

10. Tool to Incorporate Environmental Cost into Life Cycle Assessment (Open Access, Download Link)
D. Senthil Kumaran, S.K. Ong, R.B.H. Tan and A.Y.C. Nee, 2000, Proceedings of SPIE: Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, Vol. 4193, 6-8 November 2000, Boston, USA, 124 — 134. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.417257

11. Assessing Environmental Impact of Materials Processing Techniques using an Analytic Hierarchy Process Method
S.K. Ong, T.H. Koh and A.Y.C. Nee, 2001, Proceedings of the 5th Asia Pacific Conference on Materials Processing, 25-27 June 2001, Seoul, Korea. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0924-0136(01)00618-5

 

Updated March 2022, Prof S K Ong