Phd students in nonoecd countries may also use gabi education. The novel liquid phase ethylene oxide eo technology developed at cebc entails the transport of ethylene from the gas phase into the aqueous phase containing the dissolved h 2 o 2 oxidant, methyl trioxorhenium catalyst, and pyridine noxide promoter in methanol cosolvent. For all gabi datasets the following situation is applied. Welcome to the life cycle assessment lca learning module series. Life cycle assessment of polymers in an automotive assist. Best environmental management software alternatives. The gabi 4 software for life cycle engineering, developed by pe international ag, is a marketleading software package for lca modeling.
Thinkstep was founded in 1991 and today is the international market leader in software solutions, strategic and expert services in the field of. To ensure comparability of results in the lca, the. Gabi product sustainability software gabi software. Development of life cycle inventories for electricity grid mixes in japan. Electronic supplementary material esi for rsc advances. For more than 10 years, vestas has prepared lcas of wind power. Gabi software is the leading life cycle assessment lca software and provides the worlds most. In order to help you succeed sustainably, thinkstep offers a wide range of sustainability focused training courses and workshops, from an introductory level all the way up to masterclass training. Gabi 6 software system for life cycle engineering, 3. Most of these tools rely on environmental lca framework, guidelines, and methodology as defined by iso 14040 and iso 14044. Both contain data sets for a broad spectrum of different materials and processes and provide environmental data in terms of impact categories. The basic data in the gabi database was used for energy, transport and auxiliary. Pe international will develop an easy, userfriendly and flexible tool for. Corporate sustainability, supply chain transparancy and gabi life cycle assessment.
The consistent data records in the gabi 6 database are documented in the gabi 6 online documentation. For this reason, two options remain to integrate gabi into elca. Integrating life cycle assessment tools and information. This paper discusses how the gabi 3 software tool can be used to perform lca and life. The new solution, developed by thinkstep and siemens product lifecycle management plm software business, will help manufacturers worldwide improve product performance and reliability by connecting design, engineering, analysis, compliance and manufacturing to a single source of material information.
Electric strike 351m series assa abloy sicherheitstechnik. Gabi 6 20 the software system for comprehensive analysis developed by pe international was used for modelling the life cycle for the manufacture of coilcoated aluminium sheet. The broad range data sets of the gabi cover many different industrial sectors including. Gabi market leading life cycle assessment software. Paid software produced by pe international, free educational version available for students and. Gabi 6 software system for life cycle engineering, developed by pe international ag, is used gabi 6 20. Consumptive water use and impact assessment as practitioners of the water footprint methodology hoekstra et al. The consistent data sets contained in the gabi data base are documented and. Gabi is the most trusted product sustainability solution for life cycle assessment with over 10,000 users including fortune 500 companies, leading industry associations and innovative smes. The company is headquartered in stuttgart, germany, and employs more. The article presents the method and results of the life cycle assessments lcas of the vestas 2mw gridstreamer tm wind turbines and outlines the stateoftheart approach adopted. Pe international life cycle assessment lca study in india, 2011 7 methodology vlca models are created using the gabi 5 software for life cycle engineering, developed by pe international ag. Gabi provides the answers to your most pressing product sustainability questions. The ethylene undergoes epoxidation to form corresponding epoxide with no detectable co 2 formed as byproduct.
Join a shared training or book a date for your clientspecific training. I can always unsubscribe by clicking on the link at the end of every newsletter. Susanne jorre, sustainability expert, tuv rheinland lga products gmbh. It has been the perfect tool for moving lca into the product development community.
It is not possible to access gabi functionalities from other tools since there is no public api or service available. Name quantity t per ton energy requirement as per database gjt total energy input gj reference 1 hno3 60% 1. Embodied carbon can be defined as the co2 emissions produced during the extraction of resources, transportation, manufacture, assembly, disassembly and endoflife disposal of a product. To ensure comparability of results in the lca, the basic data of gabi database were used for energy. Our solutions make optimising sustainability and compliance. It also enables you to deliver more sustainable products to match your customers expectations and become more resource efficient in a world of price rises and legislative obligations. Together with the department of life cycle engineering, thinkstep has developed the gabi software the worldwide leading tool for life cycle assessments and life cycle engineering. The gabidatabase contains consistent and documented datasets which are documented in the documentation gabi 6 20d. The gabi life cycle assessment lca software is the perfect tool to model life cycles of products and calculate their evironmental impacts. Over 20 of these corporations are using the gabi and sofi software from pe international, an official software provider, for the road testing. Product sustainability software gabi yes, i would like to receive marketing communications regarding thinkstep products, services and events. These processes were subsequently modelled with the software gabi 4 pe international ag, 2011.
Spheras acquisition of thinkstep gives it the largest market share. The gabi database provides the life cycle inventory data for background systems such as fuels and energy, fertilizer and pesticide. In addition to software, thinkstep provides its customers with integrated access to. The consistent data sets contained in the gabi data base are documented and can be. Athena impact estimator athena ie, simapro, and gabi are examples of such. The company was formally known as pe international pe stands originally for professor peter eyerer, its founder. The industry has also developed software and tools that can be used for modeling and estimation of lifecycle environmental impacts of buildings. The lca model was created using the gabi 5 software system for life cycle engineering developed by pe international ag, now thinkstep. Pe helps measuring greenhouse gas emissions beyond company. Determining the environmental impact of a product is a complex process the washington post. Pe international ag raises eur 8m in vc financing press. The gabidatabase contains consistent and documented datasets which are documented in the online gabidocumentation gabi 6 20d.
Powerful lca tools and lca databases for product and process sustainability analyses. Gabi even helps your business to cut costs and make your production and supply chains more efficient. The heart of gabi is a database containing over 4700 datasets covering a wide range of national, regional, and global products and processes. Calculation of the carbon footprint of buildings is important to promote the construction of lowcarbon buildings that release significantly less co2 compared to conventional buildings. International journal of life cycle assessment 2004. The german sustainable building council dgnb was founded in 2007 by 16 companies from the construction and realestate sectors with the aim to promote sustainable and economically efficient building. Siemens and thinkstep launch new material management software. Gabi 6 20 the software system for comprehensive analysis developed by pe international was used for modelling the life cycle for the manufacture of bright aluminium sheet. Review of the methodology used in calculating fuel carbon.
Pe international gmbh is a consultancy company, founded in 1991. In the study, sitespecific data primary data representative of current processes used in the pgm and fabrication industry for the. Stuttgart, germany, december 16, 2010 prnewswire pe international ag, a leading provider of sustainability management software and expert consulting services, announced today that it has. Gabi makes it easy for your business to carry out life cycle assessments lca. Ml2000 series mortise lock corbin russwin an assa abloy. To ensure comparability of results in the lca, the basic data of gabi database were used for energy, 3. Peinternational is a united states software company that was founded in 1991, and offers a software title called gabi software. Gabi the worlds leading life cycle assessment software. Get your free software trial of the leading life cycle assessment software for product sustainability. The german sustainable building council dgnb was founded in 2007 by 16 companies from the construction and realestate sectors with the aim to promote. Pdf analysis and comparison of life cycle assessment and. The above screenshots represent only a very small amount of the total process chain network involved in the chosen ptfe example. Gabi combines the worlds leading life cycle assessment lca modelling and reporting software, content databases with intuitive data collection and reporting tools.
Gabi software developed by thinksteppe international, germany. It also enables you to deliver more sustainable products to match your customers expectations and become more resource efficient in a. Measuring food losses and their ecological footprint a. Gabi database provides the life cycle inventory data for several of the raw and process materials obtained from the upstream and downstreamsystem. Additional information coming from databases of the free web portal probas administered by the federal environment agency and of the gabi 5 software developed by pe international has been applied, too. It is also important to emphasize all primary energy input and greenhouse gas emissions have. Production of sodium chloride was modeled in gabi using unit process inventory data from u. Sometimes this can be hard because removing this by hand takes some knowledge regarding windows program uninstallation. Simplified life cycle assessment of a hybrid car body part. Gabi 5 the worlds premium life cycle engineering life cycle assessment lce lca softwaresystem for qualified and fast economicecologicaltechnical decision support in sustainable production and product design. The gabi software system and databases by pe developed international, germany together with traci, a life cycle impact assessment methodology, were applied in this study to convert existing inventory data into ghg impacts.
With 20 years of experience and 20 offices around the globe, pe allows clients to understand sustainability, improve their performance and succeed in the marketplace. How can we develop a sustainable product portfolio to build competitive advantage and increase revenues. We enable lca professionals to affect business results by helping to save money, reduce risk, communicate product benefits and increase revenue. Using gabi 3 to perform life cycle assessment and life cycle. Pe international is one of the worlds most experienced sustainability software, content and strategic consulting firms. Illustration of computations using ecoinvent database, v 2. The gabi 6 software system for integrated balancing developed by pe international was used to model the life cycle for the manufacture of aluminium hardware. Calculate the mci of your products directly in gabi. A1 raw material extraction and processing a2 transport to the manufacturer and. However, since 2010, a step change in comprehensiveness has been employed, for example, conducting the lca to individually assess all. Measuring sustainability the farm hub textile exchange. Read about science, environment, products and services, software from. These datasets contain full lci data and are updated yearly. What is the main purpose of using gabi software compared.