LCA 1.02

 

Advanced LCA course

 

Professionals: $3,200 ex. GST
Students: $1,600 ex. GST

 

18 March - 17 April 2025 (5 weeks)
Online only

Session Times (AEST)

Tuesdays 11:00 - 14:30
18th, 25th March, 1st, 8th, 15th April with a half-hour lunch break.

Thursdays 13:00 - 14:00
20th, 27th March, 3rd, 10th, 17th April

Course Outline

Building a comprehensive goal and scope

  • Systematic process for the development of functional unit and reference scenarios

  • Choosing the appropriate standard framework

  • Data quality framework

  • Dynamic LCA considerations

  • Attributional or Consequential LCA

Building a cracking inventory model

  • Modularisation

  • Variables and parameters to make scalable and responsive inventory models.

  • Data options and data consistency.

  • System expansion challenges & solutions

  • Alternative fate of waste products

Modelling recycling at both ends of the life cycle

  • The circularity formulae

  • Modelling net recycling rates from EN15804

EPD considerations

  • Additional inventory indicators – how to model.

  • Finding the right impact models

  • Modelling background infrastructure

Impact assessment

  • Advanced LCIA modelling

  • LCA and regionalisation

  • Water and land impact

Interpretation and reporting

  • Getting data out of software

  • Auditing flows and background libraries

  • Reporting for EPDs and Building LCAs

  • Getting your LCA to speak to the audience.

Who should do the course?

  • Students who are about to sit the LCACP exam

  • Current and former LCA professionals.

  • People wanting to stay up to date with the latest standards and approaches.

  • People interested in the connections between LCA and other disciplines.

IT requirements

  • Excel

  • Zoom

  • SimaPro is used exclusively (user access provided by Lifecycles)

 
 
 

Registration Form - LCA 1.02

 
 

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Should you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us for further information: courses@lifecycles.com.au | 03 9417 1190