LCA Training

Next Lifecycles Lab: 26-27th March 2024
Day 1: Tuesday 26th March (1:00PM - 5:00PM followed by drinks)
Day 2: Wednesday 27th March (1:00PM - 4:00PM)

Cost: $3,500 for up to two people from the same brand.

An immersive environmental hack-shop to help small businesses with a personalised pathway to a sustainable product.
This two 1/2 day course has been designed for eco conscious businesses to find out where their product or service sits in terms of environmental performance, identifying key opportunities, key resources, and pathways to verification as well as demonstration of environmental bona fides.

• Pre-workshop consultation up to 60 minutes to prepare you and us for the day.

• 2x half days of training and workshopping within the Lab, with refreshments and snacks provided.

• Access to dedicated LCA practitioner, software and data for the Lab Day.

• Summary Report (3-5 pages) on initial findings and possible next steps from Lifecycles Lab provided within 2x weeks.

Does not include:

• Completion of a peer review LCA suitable for public claims.

• Ongoing access to LCA software or databases.
  

6th August - 5th September 2024
Online only

Session Times (AEST)
Tuesdays: 11:00 – 14:30 with a half-hour lunch break
Thursdays: 13:00 – 14:00

Course Outline

Building a comprehensive goal and scope

• Systematic process for the development of functional unit and reference scenarios

• Choosing the appropriate standard framework

• Data quality framework

• Dynamic LCA considerations

• Attributional or Consequential LCA

Building a cracking inventory model

• Modularisation

• Variables and parameters to make scalable and responsive inventory models.

• Data options and data consistency.

• System expansion challenges & solutions

• Alternative fate of waste products

Modelling recycling at both ends of the life cycle

• The circularity formulae

• Modelling net recycling rates from EN15804

EPD considerations

• Additional inventory indicators – how to model.

• Finding the right impact models

• Modelling background infrastructure

Impact assessment

• Advanced LCIA modelling

• LCA and regionalisation

• Water and land impact

Interpretation and reporting

• Getting data out of software

• Auditing flows and background libraries

• Reporting for EPDs and Building LCAs

• Getting your LCA to speak to the audience.

Who should do the course?

• Students who are about to sit the LCACP exam

• Current and former LCA professionals.

• People wanting to stay up to date with the latest standards and approaches.

• People interested in the connections between LCA and other disciplines.

IT requirements

• Excel

• Zoom

• SimaPro is used exclusively (will be supplied if participants do not have a working copy)