#OPENLCA FREE MODEL MANUAL#
No life cycle inventory databases pre-installed Option a – manual entry Option b - some free databases available such as USDA (US agricultural datasets) USLCI (from NREL) NEEDS (Industrial LCI data for future electricity supplies in Europe) ELCD (JRC European Commission general data) Option c – paid databases such as ecoinvent GaBi Others 03/2015 LCA Module G2ĩ Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES)įor environmental and economic analysis of building products Online-based tool Produced by NIST in the US Nearly 200 products included Concrete, roofing, insulation, water distribution piping, cleaning materials, paving, more Simple to use Most data and processes set, just choose weighting scheme, product(s) of interest, and transport distance Less control than paid software and openLCA Modelling parameters, sensitivity analyses, manual changing of inputs/outputs not available 03/2015 LCA Module G2ġ1 BEES Output By life cycle stage By environmental flow 03/2015ġ2 Athena IE Choices: Recently made free! Impact Estimator for Buildings
Includes advanced features like parameterization, Monte Carlo simulation, Sankey diagrams, etc. OpenLCA (by GreenDelta in Germany) Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES) (by NIST in the United States) Athena Impact Estimator for Buildings (by Athena Sustainable Materials Institute in Canada) Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment (EIO-LCA) (by Carnegie Mellon University in the United States) There are other free tools out there as well that are not included This module meant as an overview, a couple of these programs might be demonstrated in more detail in the gamma modules Some transportation specific programs (most of which are free) are covered in Module G3 Carbon footprint only software might be covered in the gamma modules 03/2015 LCA Module G2Ħ openLCA Produced by GreenDelta, run on an open source platform
#OPENLCA FREE MODEL ISO#
Group A: ISO Compliant LCA Overview Modules Group α: ISO Compliant LCA Detailed Modules Group B: Environmental Impact Categories Overview Modules Group β: Environmental Impact Categories Detailed Modules Group G: General LCA Tools Overview Modules Group γ: General LCA Tools Detailed Modules Group T: Transportation-Related LCA Overview Modules Group τ: Transportation-Related LCA Detailed Modules 03/2015 LCA Module G2ģ Free LCA Software Tools (Non-Transportation)Ĥ Fully packaged tool with free data includedįree Tools Two types of free software tools Interface only Fully packaged tool with free data included Few options of this type OpenLCA CMLA Some of the more advanced modeling features from paid tools available Manual entry of data or purchase a database like ecoinvent Streamlined modeling process No environmental data collection Sometimes application specific Athena IE for buildings PaLATE for pavement GREET for vehicles Typically less data transparency and advanced modeling options 03/2015 LCA Module G2ĥ Free Tools We will cover four common tools in this module: Liv Haselbach Quinn Langfitt For current modules or visit /CESTiCC Acknowledgements: CESTiCC Washington State University Fulbright
#OPENLCA FREE MODEL SERIES#
1 Welcome to the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Learning Module Series
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