LCA 101
This LIVE course is designed to teach the basics of how to quickly and easily build life cycles and accurately represent the end of life of products in your LCA using Product Stages in the SimaPro software.
Product stages are a unique feature of SimaPro that allow you define a product by assemblies and subassemblies and by the way it is used and disposed of. They allow you to quickly link multiple product life cycles together. To use product stages accurately you need to understand how they are calculating and how they are routing assemblies and waste types through disposal scenarios and waste scenarios.
This course is intended for future LCA practitioners. This course will give you a hands on experience in SimaPro by building a Life Cycle of a common consumer product. Your instructor will be an experienced LCA/SimaPro professional.
LIVE Course | |
Registration | Register for our LIVE Course |
Price | $690 per person |
Medium | Zoom |
Duration | 3 hours |
Pace | Pre-scheduled session – check our calendar! |
Lesson Format | One, 3-hour group session |
Quiz Format | 1 final quiz |
Q&A | Live Q&A via Zoom |
Resources | Course slide deck, course homework and exercises, recordings of each session available for 2 weeks after the course date, and other key resources! |
SimaPro | Temporary license included with course! |
Prerequisites | Introduction to LCA and SimaPro |
Certificate | Course 1 of 3 to fulfill the Application of LCA Certificate Program |
Check back in later for LCA 101 On Demand!
Topics:
- Waste types
- Waste treatments
- Waste scenarios
- Product Stages
- Assemblies
- Life Cycles
- Disposal Scenarios
- Disassemblies
- Reuse
Helpful Tips:
We recommend heading over to our course calendar and adding the respective course to you calendar.
The class will meet online on Zoom. Upon completion of course prework and signing the policy agreement, you will gain access to the Zoom, the course slide deck, and additional course content. We recommend using the course slide deck for note taking. These prove to be a great help when conducting your future LCAs.
The best set up for taking the class is to have one monitor to view the course slide deck and another running your LCA software tool to follow your instructor and gain hands on experience. If you would like to take the class but do not have access to software, we will provide you with a temporary SimaPro license.