These days, the global environmental problems are occurred in various fields. Especially, these problems clear on high economic activities in advanced countries, poverty and urbanization in developing countries and the modified international cooperation. Moreover, cities, which have been cycling the production, consumption and waste& recycle of energy and materials, make the influence nature of satelite-cities. Thus, in the range of those impacts the pollution problem have been spreading to global worries and also in the social reason it is more modifying from the specific production activities to general human activities.
As the global environmental problems come up more and more, it has limited that the general methods work out the environmental influence from the part of urban activity and construction, so that it is more important to analyze and assess these influences in advance. The previous urban environmental planning mainly considered the operation, but today becomes to need to review the urban planning and design in inclusive and long-term. On the other side, it is hard to solve global environmental problems with the previous way dealt with the environmental problems without pre-treatment. Therefore, the studies on the effective environmental impact assessment begin, and one of them is Life Cycle Assessment, the methodology quantifying the environmental loadings.

 What can be expected?

To apply for LCA of urban system unlike product LCA should be needed to analyze the boundaries and similarity between physical sources and social sources in detail. In this point of view, the largest effect by the study of LCARC is to grasp the problems and acknowledge the urban system to assess various environmental loadings.
In the technical effect, LCA Methodology in our research center as the highest technology in Korea might be able to provide others with the basement of environmental loading assessment.

 What is LCARC for?

LCARC will furnish others with how to approach to quantify the environmental loadings in the life cycle. With this attempt, the cause of the environmental loadings that propose the logical and systemic methodology will be able to be analyzed. Moreover, it is to propose the LCA Methodology to assess the effect in the view of the global environment as LCARC proposes the environmental loadings in the urban infra-structure of the construction, operation, demolition and waste& recycle with this method.