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Description
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an iterative process per se. However, most tools today used by LCA practitioners require using multiple applications and migrate data between tools to successfully draw conclusions of an environmental assessment. Life cycle impact assessment scores (LCIA Scores) is a tool designed to simplify and improve LCA workflows for non-experienced practitioners, with a particular focus on the inventory phase — one of the most time-consuming stages of LCA . Build upon the Brightway, the Scores tool is designed to take profit of LCA common database formats and nomenclatures to organize life cycle inventory and impacts assessment results. In particular, the tool consists of a set of excel spreadsheets with several built-in macros that do not require programming knowledge and allow to: (i) easily organize primary data and build life cycle inventories in a standardized manner, enabling to uniquely search and identify technosphere and biosphere processes; (ii) model multiple foreground scenarios by altering input data and building multiple inventories at once; (iii) export inventories into standard brightway-excel sheets and CSV Simapro files to ease data interoperability within common LCA tools (Brightway, Simapro). Moreover, the Scores tool allows to calculate impact assessment results, producing a set of LCIA scores for first tier contribution assessments. Thus, automatized visuals can be programmed for an easy reporting. Overall, we aim to accelerate LCA workflows and enhance interoperability between LCA software tools and practitioners with diverse modelling approaches, making research more cumulative, timely and relevant.
| How much time do you ideally wish for your contribution? | 15 minutes |
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