EN15804 is the European norm for Environmental Product Declarations, EPDs, and provides core rules for the Product Category Rules, PCRs, especially for the construction sector. EN15804 supports life cycle modelling and calculation, and yet some of the indicators...
In a recent training, a question came up whether a common modelling and calculation is correct which is maybe interesting for others too; this post therefore tries to explain, using a very simple LCA model and system, which seems rather straightforward: The picture...
Since the beginning, openLCA has product systems which are basically life cycle models, and allows users to inspect and change these, and also create them from scratch. We think this is an important element in LCA modeling, and makes it more transparent. However,...
Last weekend we published the Japanese idea database on Nexus; in contrast to the evolutionary edition of ecoinent 3.4 (see below), this database contains unique processes mainly from a Japanese and Asian viewpoint, many not available in any other LCA database so far....
Happy to say that we have released ecoinvent 3.4 for openLCA, in openLCA Nexus, since last week, with updated data sets e.g. for electricity, and quite some data sets for non-European backgrounds. More details are described in our ecoinvent 3.4 documentation,...
