Indoor Exposure Assessment Working Group

1. Project title: Indoor Exposure Assessment within LCA

2. Type of Project: Commissioned

3. Number of participants: 13 members coming from 6 countries and 3 continents

4. Scope of the Project: Global

5. Period: May 2008 to 2010

6. Specific Goals

• Show relevance of indoor emissions in a range of case studies

• Make indoor exposure Assessment operational within LCA

• Facilitate the Assessment of indoor exposure on the inventory level

• Disseminate results by writing a book or a series of freely available papers on the Assessment of indoor exposure in LCA

•  Hellweg S, Demou E, Bruzzi R, Meijer A, Rosenbaum RK, Huijbregts MAJ, McKone TE, Integrating Human Indoor Air Pollutant Exposure within life Cycle Impact Assessment, Environmental Science and Technology, 43,1670-1679, 2009 (freely available by Internet)

• Kikuchi Y, Hirao M, Practical Method of Assessing Local and Global Impacts for Risk-Based Decision Making: A Case Study of Metal Degreasing Processes, Environmental Science and Technology 42 (12),4527-4533
• Demou E, Hellweg S, Wilson MP, Hammond SK, McKone TE, Evaluating indoor exposure modeling alternatives for LCA: A case study in the vehicle repair industry, Environmental Science and Technology 43 (15), 5804-5810, 2009

8. Progress done so far: 90%


9. Next meeting: There are regular telecalls


10. Leader:

Stefanie Hellweg
Institute of Environmental Engineering
Ecological Systems Design
ETH Zurich
HIL G 35.2
8093 Zürich

How can interested persons get involved in this project?
Please send an e-mail to: ilci@unep.org