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Life Cycle Assessment:

Quantifying Environmental Impacts

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Why enroll in this course?

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Manage Life Cycle Assessment Software and Databases to optimize decision-making.

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Quantify the Environmental Impact of a product, process, or service throughout its life.

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Apply international ISO 14040 and ISO 14:445 standards to assess environmental impact, minimize risks, and optimize processes in your company.

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Engage in two live sessions with MIT instructors, and up to eight live sessions with learning facilitators, industry experts, and peers.

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Networking opportunities establish professional connections with industry experts and your cohort.

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Access to rich supplementary resources provides additional materials and content for a more thorough educational journey.

Certificate

Certificate

All the participants who successfully complete their program will receive an MIT Professional Education Certificate of Completion, as well as Continuing Education Units (CEUs)*.

To obtain CEUs, complete the accreditation confirmation, which is available at the end of the course. CEUs are calculated for each course based on the number of learning hours.

*The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is defined as 10 contact hours of ongoing learning to indicate the amount of time they have devoted to a non-credit/non-degree professional development program. To understand whether or not these CEUs may be applied toward professional certification, licensing requirements, or other required training or continuing education hours, please consult your training department or licensing authority directly.

Course outline

Life Cycle Assessment is the central ingredient to sustainable transitions in manufacturing, cost reduction, and brand identity improvements. With future policy changes on the horizon for a more sustainable planet, this Life Cycle Assessment course paves the way for organizations to comply with the future of work and is the solution to a sustainable brand.

  1. Define the concept of LCA

  2. Explore different types of LCAs

  3. Discover terminology associated with LCAs

  4. Software component: Install and Explore openLCA

  1. Gain a deeper understanding of establishing the purpose and focus for an LCA

  2. Explore the ways in which we set limits for analysis and its effects on the outcome

  3. Introduce the concept of interdependencies when evaluating environmental impact

  4. Software component: Defining Goal and Scope

  1. Learn more about the inventory step and procedures for conducting one

  2. Analyze what data is needed and where this information can be obtained

  3. Understand the challenges of multioutput systems and methods for dealing with them

  4. Software component: Conducting an LCI

  1. Review the procedure for conducting an LCIA in response to objectives outlined in goal and scope

  2. Recognize the main impact categories, how they differ, and how they are measured

  3. Normalize data and account for uncertainty

  4. Software component: Creating a Model and Conducting LCIA (Optional)

  1. Review the different types of uncertainty and their causes

  2. Understand how uncertainty is calculated

  3. Interpret and/or communicate LCA results with relevant disclaimers

  4. Software component: Calculating Uncertainty with open LCA

  1. Explore LCA case studies of everyday products

    • Boots Shampoo

    • Alkaline Batteries

    • Asics Running Shoes

    • Look at the corporate footprint of a leading company

  2. Corporate Footprinting: Apple Inc.

  3. Examine how LCAs can be used to support policy decisions

Who is this online course for?

  • Consultants who must be aware of current sustainability policies and how to enact them within an organization.

  • Companies in industries concerned with meeting or setting carbon targets or hoping to reduce their impact on the environment.

  • Data scientists and engineers involved in interpreting and analyzing LCAs.

  • Accounting firms involved in evaluating the greenhouse gas emissions of firms.

  • Legislative bodies implementing policies regarding sustainable production and procurement practices.

Instructors

MPE - Faculty - Jeremy Gregory
Dr. Jeremy Gregory

Executive Director, MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium

MPE - Faculty - Elsa Olivetti
Prof. Elsa Olivetti

Associate Dean of Engineering, Associate Professor of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, and Co-Director of MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium

MIT is a stamp of excellence, and MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub has closely worked with NRMCA, driving critical research to advance LCA and the decarbonization of the concrete industry. Taking the Life Cycle Assessment course was a crucial step for me to gain expertise in research, a critical viewpoint, and an understanding of the importance of disclosing data and measuring sustainability targets in today's pressing environmental issues. The course expanded my knowledge of LCA beyond the building industry. I had the opportunity to collaborate with peers from various sectors and make systemic connections between other products and services, which broadened my perspective. The course filled a vital gap in terms of the foundation of an LCA that, in practice, gets easily lost in translation depending on the type of WBLCA and the geographical region where I can complete an assessment. I found it extremely useful to learn from other sectors on how LCA can be applied and find their systemic relation to the built environment, which gave me essential tools and information sources to expand my realm of knowledge.
Angela Bejarano
Global Sustainability Consultant at ARKEO Consulting,
ARKEO D+C

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