SEE-Life Sustainability
Something is sustainable if it has the optimal balance between social, environmental and economic (SEE) dimensions across its entire Life cycle. This can be expressed simply as SEE-Life.
Social, Environmental and Economic (SEE) sustainability is sometimes referred to as People Planet Profit or the Triple Bottom Line (TBL). Environmental sustainability may also be referred to as ecological sustainability.
A Life cycle can be segmented in various ways. To keep it simple BlueScope have broken it up into four phases; Get, Make, Use and Next.
| Phase | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| GET | Virgin materials extraction, materials production and transport. |
Mining Steel Production Rollforming Fabrication |
| MAKE |
Design and construction; or Design, manufacture and transport to consumer; or Design, manufacture, wholesale and/or retail. |
Building design and construction |
| USE | Product is utilised for its intended purpose and maintained. |
Occupancy of building Repairs, alterations and additions |
| NEXT | End of life scenarios including reuse, recycling, down cycling or disposal to landfill. |
Demolition Reuse and/or recycling |
BlueScope updates Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)
BlueScope has released an updated range of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) providing an increased level of transparency for the environmental impacts of its products across a range of categories.
Green Building Rating Tools & Schemes
Green Building rating tools and schemes aim to assess the sustainability of buildings, infrastructure, materials and consumer products.