The Rogério Valle Center for Sustainable Production (SAGE) was created in 1995 to develop an innovative and advanced way of sustainably producing goods, services and events; the way in which technical, economic, social and environmental criteria are integrated. For this, SAGE acts in an interdisciplinary way, thanks to its own team that includes engineers, chemists and marine biologists, in addition to several partnerships with other laboratories at UFRJ. It is currently coordinated by Professor Virgílio José Martins Ferreira Filho, and its mission is to act in the reflection, qualification and innovation of the ways of producing goods and services, integrating technical, social and environmental criteria, training people and developing research to involve society in sustainable production.

The objective of SAGE is to develop an innovative and advanced way of sustainably producing goods, services and events, considering its life cycle in an integrated manner through technical, economic, social and environmental criteria. SAGE acts primarily where production management and sustainability need to meet, using mainly Life Cycle Management and Multicriteria Sustainability Assessment.

Its main activities are related to Support for multicriteria decision in decommissioning projects. Monitoring, prevention and recovery of natural and environmental disasters; and environmental preservation. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), including environmental, social and life cycle cost analysis; - assessment of life cycle sustainability in a multicriteria approach; theoretical and practical training (in software) of LCA. Assessment and monitoring of biodiversity, particularly marine. Classification methods and selection of alternatives for making complex decisions involving multiple criteria. Its projects have made SAGE a national reference in Process Management (mapping and rationalization of processes, competence management, ERP Systems, Electronic Document Management and Workflow). It is a certified trainer and GRI stakeholder organization. For the IOC, it carried out the Sustainability Assessment of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (OGI).

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