by openLCA.org | May 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
The system models “Allocation, cut-off by classification”, or cut-off system models in short, are based on the Recycled Content, or Cut-off, approach. These system models also contain the elementary flows for renewable energy uptake that some users have... by openLCA.org | May 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
The workshop is co-organised by US Department of Agriculture (USDA), ETH Zürich, and GreenDelta, and has the aim to show the current status of regionalised impact assessment modeling in LCA on databases, impact assessment models and softwares. In all these areas,... by openLCA.org | Feb 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
The new method references the elementary flows contained in the Social Hotspots Database and includes a total of eighteen social impact categories, such as child labour or gender equity. The pack is available for free at the download... by openLCA.org | Feb 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
The new pack references more than 30,000 flows and contains all major LCIA methods, ready to be used for GaBi, ELCD, NEEDS and other databases. Also normalisation and weighting factors are provided. The pack is available for free at the download... by openLCA.org | Jan 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Over 1000 process data sets, which are corrections, updates or extensions of ecoinvent v.2.2 database, created by ESU-Services and other authors are now avaiable in openLCA... by openLCA.org | Jan 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
As discussed earlier, we published today performance test results of the openLCA 1.4 beta 1 version together with results for openLCA 1.3.4, SimaPro 7.3.3 and SimaPro 8, for the ecoinvent 2 and 3 database. Overall, the results show great improvements; creating the... by openLCA.org | Dec 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
openLCA has been largely refactored in the last half year or so to allow working with huge databases such as ecoinvent 3 or the Social Hot Spots Database. We also added several usability improvements and new features, e.g. a much more refined parameter management. The... by openLCA.org | Dec 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
December is quite productive – we deployed yesterday a new version of the nexus site for finding and downloading LCA data sets with an (as we believe) much better usability – let us know any feedback, thanks in... by openLCA.org | Dec 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
We released a new openLCA version that now integrates also the PROSUITE sustainability assessment method. The new version is available at the usual locations (www.openlca.org/downloads). Main change is that we merged the openLCA version developed for the PROSUITE... by openLCA.org | Nov 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
A new version of the Nexus Datahub Plugin is available for download. It now is possible to decide whether to import a complete pack or just data used in the imported processes. To update the plugin use the build-in Plugin Manager of...