Brightcon 2026, hackathon and courses

Heat pump deployment is widely assumed to reduce building-sector greenhouse gas emissions. This assumption holds in countries with low-carbon electricity grids but has rarely been tested for carbon-intensive grid contexts using open LCA tools and data. This contribution presents a Brightway2-based case study that computes the operational global warming potential (GWP) of a residential...

The decarbonization of maritime transport requires scalable fuel pathways that achieve both economic viability and low life cycle emissions. This study presents a prospective life cycle assessment (LCA) of Power-to-Liquid (PtL) e-diesel production within the FLEET 4.0 framework, targeting maritime applications in Saudi Arabia. The work integrates detailed process simulation with system-level...

Highlights
• The SALCA models transitioned from an Excel tool to a Python implementation.
• A modular structure separates parameters, tables, models, and calculation levels.
• The long-term and large collaborative effort required coordination and harmonization.
• The open source aims to facilitate reproducibility, reuse, and external collaboration.

Description
Agriculture is a...

Highlights / Discussion Points
- Why and how it was built, its architecture and what it allows today.
- Demo of an inventory/impact calculation, hotspot analysis and a what-if substitution scenario
- How it was used for Ecobalyse
- Openings on the real needs of the LCA sector : data

Concise Description
For fun and continuous learning, I wrote a brand new LCA software from...

Discussion Points
• Modeling needs in the electronics LCA community.
• Introduction of the open-source framework developed at UCLouvain.
• How does this framework facilitate data sharing and reuse?
• Demonstration with a dense printed circuit board with various integrated circuits.

Context
Electronic products are complex and heterogeneous. As a result, their LCA modeling is...