Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of ENDURUNS Project: Autonomous Marine Vehicles

Abstract

The autonomous marine vehicles development has a grow demand by offshore industries. The multiple facilities implemented in this environment requires the evolution of this devices for several task as survey, maintenance or monitorization. The technology complexity of this devices requires great efforts in economics and resources to innovate. In this line, the ENDURUNS project purposes to design an autonomous marine system capable to performance a long endurance during the missions due to the employment of renewable energies for its vehicles. The evaluation of the project life cycle represents an important task for the project management. In this article, it is exposed the three different project life cycle aspects. The aspect analyzed are the social life cycle assessment, the life cycle cost and the life cycle assessment. It has been applied the corresponding standards in the European context to develop each methodology and to obtain the results. Thus, this work brings an approach about the environment, economic and social impact of this project. The results presented from this study can be considered for practitioners for future research in marine mobility field, due to the sustainability characteristics of the project analyzed.