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
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🌊 Innovation at Sea: Pioneering Fuel Cell Research for Sustainable Shipping We’re happy to share the 3rd FuelSOME Newsletter! In case you don't know it yet, the FuelSOME project is developing ...
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📢 Calling All LCA Community Members! It’s time for the annual global community survey from Forum for Sustainability through Life Cycle Innovation e.V. (FSLCI). FSLCI crafted a short survey to ...
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🌿 Sustainable packaging: What actually is sustainable? 🌎 Are you working in a food or packaging company and facing such questions and challenges? Then this training course might be something for ...
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🌟 You have an innovative idea on sustainability and circular economy solutions in place and could use a little boost forward? Then we got some good news. The Innovation Booster Applied Circular ...
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🌟 Gates open for the spring semester 2024 at the ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften! 🎓 Our LCA team is well prepared and motivated to supervise exciting term papers and to give ...
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🌿 Environmental impact of alternative heat generation systems in a single-family house 🏠🔥 During last week’s student colloquium, Gregor Mahrer presented his term paper, for which he conducted a ...
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🌟 We started the week off right yesterday, with insightful presentations from our students during the colloquium of their term papers. 🎤📝 In an amazing effort, 7 students from the Bachelor and ...
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What will the future of our nutrition look like? How must our food be produced so that we can feed 10 billion people and not further threaten the resilience of our ecosystems? Is vertical farming part ...
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With a spectacular sunrise at our beautiful location at the Campus Grüental, we tackled this year’s strategy morning within our research group. Also present for moral support: Our institute cat ...
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