Online Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Training Course
Special Offer: We are currently offering 3 for the price of 2. Buy access for 3 individuals and the third place will be free.
Also 66.67% of all training course sales (ex. VAT) will be diverted to our Scaling Carbon Reduction Initiative (SCRI), initially towards updating the ICE Database (until June 2025).
Course: Introduction to life cycle assessment (LCA) training course (suitable for all sectors)
Modules: This course is made up of 16 online access video modules. They 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 – A ‘Recap exercise’ and 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 and course summary
Prices: This course is available through the Circular Ecology Training Hub, providing access to all our video training content. To view our pricing structure please click here.
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Testimonials
Here are a few testimonials from 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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