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Releases can be solid wastes or emissions to air or water

Compiling an inventory of relevant energy and material inputs and environmental releases (outputs) associated with a defined system.

LCA involves the collection and evaluation of quantitative data on the inputs and outputs of material, energy and waste flows associated with a product over its entire life cycle so that its whole-life environmental impacts can be determined.Īn LCA essentially comprises three steps:

There are now over 6,000 verified EPD to EN 15804 for construction products registered globally. EPD are increasingly being used by construction product manufacturers in the UK and the EU to provide robust, quantified environmental data for their products. LCA is the methodology that is used to develop Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) which are a standardised set of environmental information based on a common set of rules called Product Category Rules (PCRs). Despite being conceptually quite straightforward, LCA can be very complex with many important, often material-specific, assumptions than can significantly influence the outcome.

9 End of life LCA and embodied carbon data for construction materialsįirst developed in the 1960s, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is the most widely used and highly regarded tool for quantifying the environmental impacts of products and services.

7.4 Manufacturers and trade associations.

7.2 Inventory of Carbon and Energy (ICE).

7.1 The Building Research Establishment (BRE).

7 Construction LCA and embodied carbon data sources.

6.1 Accounting for the recycling of steel.

2.1 Embodied carbon codes and standards.

1.3 The Construction Products Regulation (CPR).

We also offer to implement smaller features to make sure you get exactly the software you need. In several cases openLCA was used as a basis to build a customized software solution, with web or desktop applications. A “ Guided Case Study” including a training is the perfect start to using openLCA in a professional environment.

The report feature of openLCA where a complete html report is created is particularly interesting for publishing and sharing results.įor businesses who have been working with other LCA software, we are helping migrate existing models to openLCA and assure a seamless transition. OpenLCA is easy to install, offers a modern and intuitive user interface and can be used for working in a team. Many business users rely on the known and world-wide used LCA databases such as GaBi or ecoinvent which can be used in openLCA. Creating LCA studies according to international standards, be it for sustainability reporting, marketing of your products or product design, becomes more and more an inherent part of businesses. openLCA allows fast calculation of results with the largest set of data available for LCA.