Brightcon 2026, hackathon and courses

Highlights / Discussion Points

• TianGong starts from building a Chinese LCA database and extends toward broader LCA infrastructure.
• The infrastructure connects database development with data structuring, review, calculation, interoperability, and reuse.
• AI is used within controlled, auditable workflows to support data curation and quality governance.
• This approach can help...

Context. A growing number of national green-building councils publish open EPD databases that provide pre-characterised GWP values per EN 15978 lifecycle module — the NZGBC Embodied Carbon Database in New Zealand, EPiC in Australia, ICE in the UK, ÖKOBAUDAT in Germany. These databases are explicitly designed to be open to any tool provider, yet they sit outside the elementary-flow paradigm on...

The ICT sector still struggles to fully understand its environmental footprint. LCA can help in assessing it, but is currently hindered by the lack of open, trustworthy, and quality data, which can be explained by two elements: 1) a complex supply chain, and 2) business secrecy in a competitive environment.

In this presentation, the objective is first to present naKnow: a collaborative...

The use of plastics inevitably leads to (micro)plastics entering and accumulating in the natural environment, affecting biodiversity, food security and human health. Biodegradable polymers have emerged as a potential solution to mitigate plastic pollution and the environmental accumulation of polymers, offering stable performance during use while leading to shorter residence times in natural...

We present TRAILS, an open-source Python framework for time-explicit life cycle assessment (LCA) that enables deep temporalization of product systems. Rather than representing the technosphere as a collection of year-specific, independent two-dimensional matrices, TRAILS treats it as an interconnected temporal structure (i.e., a three-dimensional tensor) in which processes and exchanges can be...