by Sarah Serafini | Oct 31, 2024 | Life Cycle Impact Assessment
The new update of the openLCA LCIA Method package (v2.6.0) is now available on Nexus. These are the main highlights of the update: AWARE 1.2 Method newly added. The new method is available both location-based regionalized and flow-based regionalized. Therefore, it’s... by Sarah Serafini | Oct 8, 2024 | Life Cycle Impact Assessment
With the release of openLCA 2.3, we also provide an updated version of openLCA handbook manual with the following changes: Adapted to changes coming along with the release of openLCA 2.3 Novel chapter on “Dependent Parameters” Expanded... by Julia Cilleruelo | Oct 7, 2024 | openLCA releases
Last week we released version 2.3.0 of openLCA. We would like to encourage users to download this newest update. The changes from the previous version are: Support for the newest CS version & improvements of the CS repository view in openLCA, A new tool: Parameter... by Julia Cilleruelo | Sep 30, 2024 | Conferences & Exhibitions
After a sold-out first edition, we would like to give a warm welcome to openLCA.conf 2025, taking place in Berlin from the 10–11 April 2025. Doubling our event capacity from last year, we’re excited to bring together experts from across the field for two days of... by Sarah Serafini | Sep 24, 2024 | Life Cycle Impact Assessment
A new update of the openLCA LCIA Method package (v2.5.0) is now available on Nexus. These are the main highlights of the update: TRACI 2.2 Method newly added. Novelty of the version 2.2: Fossil fuel characterization factors (CFs) have been removed. Eutrophication CFs... by Julia Cilleruelo | Sep 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
We would like to communicate about reported issues with the ecoinvent 3.10 database. This information was forwarded from ecoinvent database developers on the 11.09.2024. The issues apply only to ecoinvent version 3.10 and not other versions. Issue Summary: Coke... by Julia Cilleruelo | Sep 4, 2024 | Webinars & Trainings
Coming fresh from the summer holidays, at least those in a similar time zone as Berlin, we hope that our users are ready for upcoming specialised trainings in the fall. These trainings don’t happen too often, and we recommend our users (specially those waiting... by Sarah Serafini | Aug 30, 2024 | Life Cycle Impact Assessment
A new update of the openLCA LCIA Method package (v2.4.5) is now available on Nexus. These are the main highlights of the update: IPCC 2021: Corrected CFs for Methane flows in IPCC 2021 GWP 100: From 27.9 to 29.8 for fossil Methane flows. From 27.9 to 27.0 for... by Julia Cilleruelo | Aug 30, 2024 | Databases, Life Cycle Impact Assessment
It is now possible to calculate an LCA model for Material Criticality using openLCA. The methodology was developed as part of the SH2E project[1] and is enabled through an LCIA Method in the ecoinvent 3.10 cut-off database. About the methodology Created by... by Ashrakat | Aug 26, 2024 | Databases
The SOCA v3.0 database, a social impact add-on to the ecoinvent v3.10 database, is now available. Ecoinvent already contains data to calculate environmental impacts and information on costs, which can be used in life cycle costing (LCC). However, it has lacked...