Life Cycle Assessment Research Group
Applied research in environmental impact assessment
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About us
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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
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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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📢 LCA Food Conference is calling 📢 In September 2024, the biennial LCA Food Conference will take place in #Barcelona and we are happy to share our participation. With 2 oral #presentations and 2 ...
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💡 Would you have known? 💡 Within the context of the "smart" - customer magazine for energy service providers, Redact Kommunikation AG publishes articles on the future of energy and energy policy ...
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🌱 The "FARM TO TABLE" results are here! 🌱 This research project, which was performed as a collaboration between the ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte ...
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🌿 Join Us for the LCA Discussion Forum on Frontiers in Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment hosted by René Itten and Matthias Stucki from Life Cycle Assessment @ ZHAW, Lucia Rigamonti from Politecnico ...
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🌟 Thank You for 3000 Followers! 🌟 We’ve just passed a fantastic milestone – 3000 followers! 🎉🎊 We’re thrilled and grateful for your support on our journey, whether you’ve been with us from the start ...
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🌱 Master Students’ Transformative Journey in Environmental Impact Assessment 🌍🔍 This spring, our 33 master students in the Advanced Life Cycle Assessment explored environmental impacts through a ...
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🌍 Another reason to join us at the Life Cycle Innovation Conference in Berlin! 🌐 The 3rd oral presentation from our Team at this year’s LCIC will focus on the following topic: “Energy from Solid ...
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What role do life cycle inventory databases play, and what are their impacts on LCA results? 📈🔍 The Foundation of Every Life Cycle Assessment: Background Databases 🌱📊 In most cases, a life cycle ...
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🛳️ The first Review Meeting of the FuelSOME project was a success🛳️ Beginning of this week, we met up with the FuelSOME Consortium in Brussels for the first Review Meeting, where we presented the ...
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