Published November 8, 2012
by iris_author
When: Nov. 28 & 29, 2012
Where: Toronto (Evergreen Brick Works)
Special Student Scholarship $ 350 (3 spaces on first come first serve)
Description:
As a Life Cycle Assessment Project Manager or Sustainability Consultant - you need to have a broad understanding of LCA concepts, inventory, impact assessment, data quality management, post impact calculations, modeling, software, statistics and the ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 standards.
Life Cycle Assessment is one of today's fastest growing professional fields with certification from the American Centre for Life Cycle Assessment through an exam process.
In this program you will:
Day 1:
Gain an introduction to the life cycle concept, drivers and application for marketing, communication, branding and design. Case studies will be used to present the life cycle concept, basic principles and discuss its limits as an environmental assessment tool.
Using case studies, small and large group discussions participants will:
1. Examine LCA methods using common LCA frameworks and standards.
2. Identify the goal and scope of a potential project looking at function, functional unit and reference flows.
3. Understand system boundaries for an LCA project.
4. Conduct a simple life cycle inventory for a project.
5. Critically examine and interpret a life cycle impacts assessment.
The aim of this first Module is to better understand the significance of LCA (generated information and applications) in order to promote its implementation within a decision-making framework.
Day 2:
Focus on the refinement of the LCA methodological framework and applications. This section will further refine the LCA methodology according to its different phases as defined by ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 in order to provide participants with the basic elements required to critically analyze an LCA study. In addition, this module is will provide the essential knowledge required to lead an LCA study within an organization.
Using case studies, small and large group discussions participants will:
1. Deeply assess methodological aspects of LCA including goal and scope definition, system boundaries considerations, attribution and consequential approaches.
2. Examine multi-functional processes of life cycle inventory and a life cycle impact assessment framework.
3. Follow the LCA steps of classification, characterisation, normalisation and weighting.
4. Critically evaluate LCA methods.
5. Complete a practical, hands on case study exercise that identifies the typical elements of an LCA study: function, functional unit, reference flows and system boundaries.
6. Analysis case study results using commercial LCA software: SimaPro.
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