News
New IO and hybrid course
November 27, 2019 by ILCA
The ideal X-mas present for you or a friend?
Today the International Life Cycle Academy presents a totally updated March 2020 edition of one of our long-running successes – the IO and hybrid course.
The course has been turned into a suite of two courses with 2 days for the basics, eg. for those who just want to use IO/hybrid in SimaPro – while the subsequent 3 days is for those who want the more advanced practical skills under their belt, such as building and modifying an IO-LCA databases (incl. integration of physical flows and hybridising). Read more: https://ilca.es/courses/courses/
Review of three recent textbooks on LCA
October 11, 2019 by ILCA
The ILCA Academy members strive to review and recommend available teaching materials. With the aim of a stringent approach a set of criteria for a good beginner’s LCA textbook has therefore been developed.
These criteria have been used to review three recent textbooks on LCA:
- Jolliet O, Saadé-Sbeih M, Shaked S, Jolliet A, Crettaz P. (2016). Environmental Life Cycle Assessment. Boca Raton: CRC Press
- Matthews H S, Hendrickson C T, Matthews D H. (2016): Life Cycle Assessment: Quantitative Approaches for Decisions That Matter – lcatextbook.com
- Hauschild M Z, Rosenbaum R K, Olsen S I (Eds.). (2018). Life Cycle Assessment: Theory and Practice. Heidelberg:Springer. (link)
A summary of the first part of the review has now been published in Journal of Industrial Ecology. For each of these three, more detailed comments are available in the following files:
Review details Jolliet
Review details Matthews
Review details Hauschild
And the winners are…..
September 2, 2019 by Inger Weidema
Today the three winners of the 2019 International Life Cycle Academy Awards were revealed at a small ceremony at the LCM 2019.
Hearty congratulations to everybody!
Autumn courses at ILCA
August 29, 2019 by Inger Weidema
Today there is only one month left to register for the autumn courses at the International Life Cycle Academy.
We are also happy to announce, that the teaching staff for our LCIA courses will be joined by Laure Patouillard this year. Laure is Scientific coordinator at CIRAIG and has been responsible for the implementation of the IMPACT World+ method into the Brightway LCA software. We look very much forward this new edition of the LCIA suite. https://ilca.es/courses/courses/