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: Date TBC 2024
Day 1: (1:00PM - 5:00PM)
Day 2: (11:00AM - 2:00PM)
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.
For all enquiries please contact courses@lifecycles.com.au
Pre-workshop consultation up to 60 minutes to prepare you and us for the day.
Two half days of training and workshopping within the Lifecycles Lab, with refreshments and snacks provided.
Access to dedicated LCA practitioner, software and data for the duration of the Lifecycles Lab workshop.
Summary Report (3-5 pages) on initial findings and possible next steps from Lifecycles Lab provided within one month.
Does not include:
Completion of a peer review LCA suitable for public claims.
Ongoing access to LCA software or databases.
LCA 1.01
Professionals: $2,800 ex. GST
Students: $1,400 ex. GST
18-20 February 2025
Online introduction: 11 February
Application deadline: 4 February
Session Times (AEDT)
Tuesday 11 February (Online only)
Session 1 : 14:00 - 16:00
Tuesday 18 February (Melbourne or online)
Session 2: 10:00 - 14:00
Wednesday 19 February (Melbourne or online)
Session 3: 10:00 - 14:00
Thursday 20 February (Melbourne or online)
Session 4: 10:00 - 14:00
For enquiries please contact courses@lifecycles.com.au
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: $3,200 ex. GST
Students: $1,600 ex. GST
18 March - 17 April 2025
Session Times (AEDT)
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
For enquiries please contact courses@lifecycles.com.au
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.
For enquiries please contact courses@lifecycles.com.au