LCA Training

 

 

Upskilling is a crucial step in ensuring that you meet your sustainability goals.
We offer both standard training courses and tailored support on life cycle assessment methodology, practical use of SimaPro, social LCA metrics and more.

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Packaging LCA Training

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This workshop-based packaging course provides the tools and insights to deliver better packaging solutions based on taking a life cycle approach.

 

The course is held twice a year, in March and September 2026.

Next Packaging LCA Course
24 - 26th March 2026
6:00pm - 8:30pm (AEDT)

Location: Online

Session Times (AEST)

Session 1: 6:00pm - 8.30pm
Session 2: 6:00pm - 8.30pm
Session 3: 6:00pm - 8.30pm

Session Times (CEST)

Session 1: 8:00am - 10.30am
Session 2: 8:00am - 10.30am
Session 3: 8:00am - 10.30am

Cost (Valid until 31st December 2025)

Regular: $850 AUD ex. GST/ €500 EUR ex. VAT
PIQET users: $425 AUD ex. GST/ €250 EUR ex. VAT

For all enquiries please contact courses@lifecycles.com.au

 

Our short online Packaging LCA Course is designed for packaging engineers, managers, and sustainability professionals to gain foundational knowledge of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) through theory and practical application.

This course simplifies LCA concepts while addressing key topics impacting packaging today, such as recycling allocation and circularity. Participants will also gain hands-on experience building simple LCA models using PIQET, a web-based intuitive packaging LCA tool.

Course content includes:

  • Importance of LCA in sustainable packaging

  • Approaches to recycled content

  • End-of-life modelling

  • Transport efficiency

  • Modelling product impacts, including product loss and packaging efficiency

  • LCA, Circularity and Packaging Indicators

  • Strategies for optimising packaging designs

  • Interpretation and using the model

  • Standards and governance

Join us and unlock the full potential of life cycle thinking in packaging design.

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Lifecycles Lab

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An LCA workshop to fast track your sustainable product

 

Next Lifecycles Lab: 2026 TBC
Day 1: (1:00PM - 5:00PM)
Day 2: (11:00AM - 2:00PM)

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.

For all enquiries please contact courses@lifecycles.com.au

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

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

  • Access to dedicated LCA practitioner, software and data for the duration of the Lifecycles Lab workshop.

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

Does not include:

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

  • Ongoing access to LCA software or databases.

An immersive environmental hack-shop to help small businesses with a personalised pathway to a sustainable product.
 
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LCA 1.01

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Professionals: $2,800 ex. GST
Students: $1,400 ex. GST

 

The course is held twice a year, in March and September.

Next LCA 1.01 Course
24th February, 3 - 5th March 2026
Registration deadline: 10th February

Session Times (AEDT)

Tuesday 24th February (Online only)
Session 1: 14:00 - 16:00
Tuesday 3rd March (Melbourne)
Session 2: 10:00 - 14:00
Wednesday 4th March (Melbourne)
Session 3: 10:00 - 14:00
Thursday 5th March (Melbourne)
Session 4: 10:00 - 14:00

For enquiries please contact office@lifecycles.com.au

 

This course has been designed for people both new to LCA and those who want to further their knowledge in LCA models.
It consists of compulsory and easy-to-digest sessions, spread across 3 days.
In-person attendance is highly recommended.
The course will cover the fundamentals of LCA and standardised procedures, and provide an overview of how LCA is undertaken in a practical sense. It also provides case studies and tutorials for self-study in between the course slots if you wish to do so.

In-person participation is strongly recommended to gain the full value of the course. If attending in person is not possible, please contact us to discuss online participation options.

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LCA 1.02

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Professionals: $3,200 ex. GST
Students: $1,600 ex. GST

 

The course is held twice a year, in June and November 2026.

Next LCA 1.02 Course
2 June - 2nd July 2026
Registration deadline: 19th June

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

For enquiries please contact courses@lifecycles.com.au

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)

 
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Tailored training

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We welcome requests for personalised online training as well as in-house training. These personalised options are for those looking for help troubleshooting their SimaPro models, ensuring best practice and refreshing SimaPro training. They would also suit organisations looking to train a number of staff with a tailor-made version of the online training.

For enquiries please contact courses@lifecycles.com.au

 
 

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