LCA Training
Upskilling is a crucial step in ensuring that you meet your sustainability goals.
We offer both standard training courses and tailored support on life cycle assessment methodology, practical use of SimaPro, social LCA metrics and more.
Lifecycles Lab
An LCA workshop to fast track your sustainable product
Next Lifecycles Lab: June 2024
Day 1: (1:00PM - 5:00PM followed by drinks)
Day 2: (1:00PM - 4:00PM)
Cost: $3,500 for up to two people from the same brand.
An immersive environmental hack-shop to help small businesses with a personalised pathway to a sustainable product.
This two 1/2 day course has been designed for eco conscious businesses to find out where their product or service sits in terms of environmental performance, identifying key opportunities, key resources, and pathways to verification as well as demonstration of environmental bona fides.
Pre-workshop consultation up to 60 minutes to prepare you and us for the day.
2x half days of training and workshopping within the Lab, with refreshments and snacks provided.
Access to dedicated LCA practitioner, software and data for the Lab Day.
Summary Report (3-5 pages) on initial findings and possible next steps from Lifecycles Lab provided within 2x weeks.
Does not include:
Completion of a peer review LCA suitable for public claims.
Ongoing access to LCA software or databases.
LCA 1.01
Professionals: $2,000 ex. GST
Students: $900 ex. GST
Our May training has reached capacity. Registrations are now open for our July course which will be in-person only in Brisbane.
Online introduction: 2 July
Application deadline: 25 June
Session Times (AEST)
Tuesday 2 July (Online only)
Session 1 : 14:00 - 16:00
Tuesday 9 July (Brisbane only)
Session 2: 9:30 - 13:30
Wednesday 10 July (Brisbane only)
Session 3: 9:30 - 13:30
Thursday 11 July (Brisbane only)
Session 4: 9:30 - 13:30
This course has been designed for people both new to LCA and those who want to further their knowledge in LCA models.
It consists of compulsory and easy-to-digest sessions, spread across 3 days.
The course will cover the fundamentals of LCA and standardised procedures, and provide an overview of how LCA is undertaken in a practical sense. It also provides case studies and tutorials for self-study in between the course slots if you wish to do so.
LCA 1.02
Professionals: $2,500 ex. GST
Students: $1,250 ex. GST
6th August - 5th September 2024
Online only
Session Times (AEST)
Tuesdays: 11:00 – 14:30 with a half-hour lunch break
Thursdays: 13:00 – 14:00
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 (will be supplied if participants do not have a working copy)
Tailored training
We welcome requests for personalised online training as well as in-house training. These personalised options are for those looking for help troubleshooting their SimaPro models, ensuring best practice and refreshing SimaPro training. They would also suit organisations looking to train a number of staff with a tailor-made version of the online training.