Tools & support

Over the years several tools and systems have been developed within Swedish Life Cycle Center (former CPM). Explore some of them here.

DANTES

DANTES is an acronym for Demonstrate and Assess New Tools for Environmental Sustainability. DANTES was a project run 2002-2005 and dealed mainly with environmental activities that are usually characterized as voluntary rather than regulatory. The DANTES website was developed within the project.

Analysis tool for transport systems (TrEx)

The project was a co-operation between ABB, Akzo Nobel, SCA, Volvo, SKF, Chalmers University of Technology, IVL and CPM. The result is an analysis tool for calculating environmental impact and efficiency of transport systems.

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EPS light-spreadsheet for LCA training

EPS light is a spreadsheet that is intended to be used for LCA training of designers and product developers. It contains data on environmental damage costs for production and end-of-life treatment of construction materials, use of energy and transportation. The total environmental damage cost of a product concept can be determined in a similar way as ordinary costs.

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The EPS system

EPS (Environmental Priority Strategies in product design) is a systematic approach to choose between design options in product and process development. It was developed to meet the requirements of an everyday product development process where the environmental concern is just one among several others and started in 1989 on request from Volvo as a co-operation between IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Volvo and the Swedish Federation of Industries (within the competence center Swedish Life Cycle Center (former CPM).

LCA data bases

Several databases for life cycle assessments are available. Some are free of charge, others are commercial and the data quality and transparency differs from database to database.

Swedish Life Cycle Center runs several projects in the data field. Read more about them below.

Project Data meth test

Project Life cycle data strategy

Project CPM LCA database

CPM LCA Database

Swedish Life Cycle Center provides LCA data in the CPM LCA Database. The administration is mainly managed by Environmental Systems Analysis at Chalmers University of Technology.

Go to the CPM LCA Database

 

The Life Cycle Data Network

The Life Cycle Data Network (LCDN) is aimed at providing a globally usable infrastructure for the publication of quality assured LCA dataset (i.e. LCI datasets and LCIA method datasets) from different organizations ( e.g. industry, national LCA projects, research groups, and consultants). Life Cycle Data Network datasets support Policy development and application, Environmental Footprint activities and European Commission Life-Cycle based projects.

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ELCD (European reference Life Cycle Database)

Go to the ELCD Data base

 

The Global LCA data access network

The “Global LCA Data Access” network (GLAD) aims towards “a global network comprised of independently-operated and interoperable LCA databases, connecting multiple data sources to support life cycle assessment in a way that facilitates sustainability-related decisions”. The network will enable access by users to the majority of the LCA databases and their seamless delivery into LCA software, with sufficient documentation of metadata that allows for “fitness for purpose” for any end user.

Go to the GLAD network