Online Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Training Course

Course

An Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

Suitable for all sectors.

Modules

This course comprises 16 video modules available for online access on the Circular Ecology Training Hub. The modules cover key topics, including:

Module 1 – Background to LCA

Module 2 – The LCA Framework

Including:

• Stages of LCA
• Goal and scope
• Boundaries
• Life cycle thinking and upstream burdens
• Comparing products and functional units
• Inventory analysis
• Process flow charts
• Data collection
• Life cycle inventories
• Impact assessment
• Interpretation

Module 3 – LCA Impact Categories – Acidification & Toxicity

Module 4 – Global Warming Potential & Carbon Footprinting

Module 5 – Eutrophication & Ozone Depletion

Module 6 – Particulate Matter Formation, Photochemical Oxidant Formation & Abiotic Depletion

Module 7 – Water Footprinting

Module 8 – Recap Exercise & Answers

Module 9 – Land Use Change & Ionising Radiation

Module 10 – LCA Method & Standards, A Brief Overview

• International standards on LCA
• LCA Method – introduction to allocation
• LCA Method – introduction to biogenic carbon storage

Module 11 – LCA Data

• Ecoinvent
• GaBi
• ELCD (ILCD)
• US LCI Database
• Others….

Module 12 – LCA Tools

• SimaPro
• GaBi
• Open LCA
• Others…

Module 13 – Interpreting LCA Results

• Characterised LCA results
• Normalised LCA results
• People emission equivalents

Module 14 – Interpreting LCA Results Continued

• Weighted LCA results
• Single score LCA results
• Midpoint and endpoint LCA results
• Fate modelling

Module 15 – LCA Case Study Results

Module 16 – Detailed LCA Case Study Results & Course Summary

Prices

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Explore Our Other eLearning Courses

• Embodied Carbon in Construction (and beyond)
• An Introduction to Carbon Footprinting

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Here’s a sample of what learners are saying about our courses:

“For me it was perfect to see the video and do the test when I have time, so I really like this way of doing a course” – Bergman, Norway

“Thank you for an excellent review of the issues for carbon analysis” – Brad, USA

“Thank you very much again for the course. It was very rewarding for me.” – Marta, Slovakia

“Very useful intro – helped us realise that LCA offers some insights for us, but that actually we need to, for our purposes, learn how to model impacts around individual needs/behaviours and not only around one object’s impacts.” Janet, UK

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