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...
When performing an LCA, it is common to ask oneself if the used database and Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) method could be used together. openLCA has an LCIA method package, now in version 2.1.1, with over 40 methods that you can download in Nexus [1]. This...
On openLCA Nexus, we have recently published a modified version of Agribalyse v3.0.1. This modification was needed to correct the predefined allocation factors, which are parameterized in Agribalyse, or expressed as formulas. As you probably know, in openLCA, you can...
The updated ecoinvent 3.7.1 database is now available on openLCA Nexus. This update was needed as the database provider had noticed an issue related to the iron sinter production dataset which included an error in the order of magnitude of the estimated emissions for...
ecoinvent has informed us that an issue has been identified in version 3.7 of the ecoinvent database. Specifically, the iron sinter production dataset includes an error in the order of magnitude of the estimated emissions for dioxins and particulate matter (PM)...
The latest version of the ecoinvent database, version 3.7, released on September 17th, 2020, features more than 900 new datasets, among them 100 new products, and 1000 updated datasets. Few of the major updates and additions are listed below: New and updated datasets...
