Life Cycle Assessment Research Group
Applied research in environmental impact assessment
About us
Our commitment to research and education contributes to integrate life cycle thinking as a basis for ecological decisions in science, business, politics and society.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an impact assessment tool that comprehensively quantifies and evaluates the environmental impacts of products, services, technologies, and systems over the entire life cycle according to scientific criteria.
This impact assessment plays a key role in the optimisation of processes, products and services. It also serves to evaluate different energy concepts and strategies and to communicate environmental benefits.
Course of study
The LCA research group is responsible for the Bachelor minor Life Cycle Assessment and Label Management and is involved in the development of the Bachelor modules Life Cycle Assessment and Label Management and Renewable raw materials.
In the Master’s degree course the LCA Research Group is responsible for the module Advanced Life Cycle Assessment and Ecodesign.
Fields of research
Currently on Linkedin
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🌱 Upcoming new project! 🌱 Peatless, our most recent Horizon Europe project, has received funding! Peatless will aim to accelerate the uptake of peat-free horticultural substrates, a crucial step ...
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🌟 Starting the year with good news! 🌟 René Itten from Life Cycle Assessment @ ZHAW has been successfully re-elected to the Board of Directors of Forum for Sustainability through Life Cycle ...
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🤩 Wow. What a great achievement if you can publish a peer-reviewed academic paper based on the results of your master thesis. 💪 👏Congratulations to Livia Somerville our master graduate from ZHAW ...
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⚡☀️ Photovoltaic power from Central Europe shows an all-time low non-renewable energy payback time of just one year 📉 This finding is presented in a new article by Matthias Stucki, co-authored by ...
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☃︎🎅🎄❄️☃️🎁🦌 Christmas meets kermis 🎪🎡🎭🎉 This year’s Christmas party of the ZHAW Institut für Umwelt und Natürliche Ressourcen IUNR was under the motto of kermis. Glitter, bright colors and fairy ...
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🌟🎓 How should the ZHAW develop in the coming years? What influence will the constantly changing environment have? 🎓🌟 👩🏫💭 Questions to reflect on the future role of the ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für ...
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🌟 Should I or should I not? 🌟 Should we integrate life cycle results for the social, environmental, and economic sustainability dimensions into one combined LCSA assessment and result—or not? ...
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🎙️ Exciting insights from the @SRF Podcast 4x4! @Matthias Stucki from our LCA research group discussed the environmental impact of Swiss hospitals. 🏥🌍 Did you know that food, mobility, and housing are ...
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Frontiers in Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment – How can Life Cycle Thinking embrace the Triple Bottom Line? This question will be explored among experts of the field during the 88th LCA ...
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