Social LCA

[zerreit]

Hello
I am working with OpenLCA for a couple weeks now and I was wondering if anybody has any thoughts or some kind of information on how to perform a social LCA with OpenLCA?. I was reading some info about LCC (Life Cycle Costing) for OpenLCA so my idea was to treat the social LCA method the same way I was reading on the LCC documents but I was wondering if anybody has some other ideas or useful information or has done it before, it would be much appreciated. Thanks

[aciroth]

Hi, good question.
Actually openLCA is quite often used for social LCA studies, from us, but also by others, see e.g. here http://www.ciraig.org/pdf/event/ACVs201 ... Benoit.pdf. We are currently developing an own (new and better than other existing I would say) database for social LCA, called PSILCA (http://www.greendelta.com/Databases.119 ... ?&L=1#c660). There is also a course at the LCM in Bordeaux this year in September about how to use social LCA and PSILCA with openLCA: http://greendelta.com/Training-Introduc ... 363.0.html.
If you have further comments, please let us know.
Best
Andreas

[zerreit]

Thank you, very useful. But is there any free alternative database that I could import into OpenLCA?. I'm not using this for professional purposes so I don't need very precise data.

[aciroth]

There are some published case studies for example which contain data, the most comprehensive one seems still our notebook computer study from 2011: http://www.greendelta.com/uploads/media ... _final.pdf