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CERN established a Sustainable Accelerators panel to address all the aspects of sustainability in future accelerators. The panel is used to share information about projects and technologies and in this way harmonise the approach to sustainability across the Organisation. One important aspect is the Lifecycle assessment of accelerator components and infrastructure. Lifecycle assessment is being introduced in the design process through two channels. For large projects, we rely on consultants to perform assessment of large infrastructures, such as the tunnels of CLIC and the FCC, but also the main components such as magnets and RF. On the other hand, we are introducing a systematic training for everyone at cern in order to raise awareness, and in particular designer can follow a specific training in order to be able to perform simple assessments on their own, in order to optimize their design from the beginning. In order to remain compatible with International standards, we started using OpenLCA with the ECOInvent databases, and follow the prescriptions of ISO 14040/14044 and specific standards if necessary (e.g. EN 17472 for civil engineering structures).
