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
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Our Master students in the real world 🌍 👩🎓 Next to her studies, our Master student Corinna Bolliger works as a project manager at Pusch – Praktischer Umweltschutz, where she gets to put her life ...
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1’810 meters above sea level, alpine reservoir, floating PV ⛰️☀️ Those are not 3 terms you’d necessarily expect to see in the same sentence, but you may have come across the world’s first alpine ...
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🌟 We started the apparently first hot summer day with insightful presentations from our students during the colloquium of their research. 🎤📝 👩🏫 Six students from the Bachelor and Master programs ...
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🔥 Grilling Sustainably: Tips for a Greener Summer BBQ 🔥 As the weather warms up, many of us are firing up our grills for outdoor gatherings. But how can we make our BBQs more environmentally ...
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DAY 3 of our LCA 3 deep dive! 🥽 Yes indeed, we are still in Berlin at the #LCIC2024, actively participating in the last few sessions. By now, we have all made our own contributions to the ...
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Berlin here we are! 🚅 🏙️ 📢 The 4th Life Cycle Innovation Conference has started and we have already had a first day filled with countless inputs and insights. From sessions on LCA and policies, ...
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🌿 Advancing Biodiversity Footprinting for Food-Related Behavior Change 🌿 - preprint is now available! As researchers from ZHAW Institut für Umwelt und Natürliche Ressourcen IUNR profoundly invested ...
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🌿 Advancing Biodiversity Footprinting for Food-Related Behavior Change 🌿 - preprint is now available! As researchers from ZHAW Institut für Umwelt und Natürliche Ressourcen IUNR profoundly invested ...
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🌟 Magical Moments at Our Team Retreat! 🌟 Our annual team retreat took us to an enchanting place with a breathtaking panorama of five lakes, where we reaffirmed our vision: "Promoting Life Cycle ...
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