by Julia Cilleruelo | Sep 4, 2024 | Webinars & Trainings
Coming fresh from the summer holidays, at least those in a similar time zone as Berlin, we hope that our users are ready for upcoming specialised trainings in the fall. These trainings don’t happen too often, and we recommend our users (specially those waiting... by Sarah Serafini | Aug 30, 2024 | Life Cycle Impact Assessment
A new update of the openLCA LCIA Method package (v2.4.5) is now available on Nexus. These are the main highlights of the update: IPCC 2021: Corrected CFs for Methane flows in IPCC 2021 GWP 100: From 27.9 to 29.8 for fossil Methane flows. From 27.9 to 27.0 for... by Julia Cilleruelo | Aug 30, 2024 | Databases, Life Cycle Impact Assessment
It is now possible to calculate an LCA model for Material Criticality using openLCA. The methodology was developed as part of the SH2E project[1] and is enabled through an LCIA Method in the ecoinvent 3.10 cut-off database. About the methodology Created by... by Ashrakat | Aug 26, 2024 | Databases
The SOCA v3.0 database, a social impact add-on to the ecoinvent v3.10 database, is now available. Ecoinvent already contains data to calculate environmental impacts and information on costs, which can be used in life cycle costing (LCC). However, it has lacked... by Julia Cilleruelo | Aug 19, 2024 | Databases
The PLEX database is an add-on to the ecoinvent APOS unit database that has the aim to quantify plastic littering along the supply chain. The first iteration was done by Ciroth & Kuoame (2019)[1] and the latest update came about in July 2023[2], for ecoinvent... by Kadambari Zokarkar | Aug 5, 2024 | Software
openLCA allows you to include many different functions, operators and constants in your models. For example, you can use formulas and parameters at the “amounts” in exchanges (input/output table in processes). Sometimes these formulas become complex. For... by Julia Cilleruelo | Jul 31, 2024 | Databases
We would like to announce the update of the Circularity Package for openLCA, now in its version 2. The database incorporates circularity indicators and traces circularity variables on top of ecoinvent 3.10 cut-off database. That is, the user can make a usual LCA model... by Sarah Serafini | Jul 22, 2024 | Life Cycle Impact Assessment
A new update of the openLCA LCIA Method package (v2.4.3) is now available on Nexus. These are the main highlights of the update: Revised land use impact category for the EF 3.1 method, specifically: Added regionalized impact factors (e.g. “Occupation, industrial area”... by Julia Cilleruelo | Jul 8, 2024 | Databases
The latest update of ÖKOBAUDAT database is now available in for openLCA. This database is the mandatory database for the Assessment System for Sustainable Building in Germany (Bewertungssystem Nachhaltiges Bauen, BNB). Datasets are provided for various building... by Julia Cilleruelo | Jul 8, 2024 | Databases
Since July 2024, openLCA users can download ProBas for openLCA in its latest version, through openLCA Nexus: https://nexus.openlca.org/database/ProBas. This database from the German Environment Agency (UmweltbBundesamt) includes datasets on energy, materials &...