openLCA is a free, fast, professional Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and footprint software developed by GreenDelta since 2006.
It is a powerful desktop application with a broad range of features and, being open-source, full transparency and extreme flexibility, making it perfect for adapting to users’ needs. Thanks to these characteristics, openLCA is used by a wide variety of users, from industry to research, from consultancy to academics.
How to learn how to use openLCA?
There are plenty of free resources to get to know openLCA autonomously, such as the official YouTube channel, the openLCA manual, case studies and models. openLCA can be easily downloaded from openLCA official website.
In case you need further support, Decerna, as official openLCA partner in the UK, provides training, local technical support, and expert consultancy using this powerful LCA platform.
Other useful resources to help you with your LCA studies
openLCA is part of a bigger ecosystem to support users in their LCA studies:
openLCA Nexus
openLCA Nexus is the largest LCI data repository worldwide, providing respective background databases for standard materials to be integrated in openLCA. By downloading databases from Nexus, users are guaranteed the full compatibility with openLCA.
onlineLCA
onlineLCA is an intuitive, online version of openLCA. It is thought for enabling non-LCA experts to easily read, manipulate, publish and overwrite all kinds of LCA models. Among its main uses are: mass-calculation of LCAs in an enterprise, compliant and consistent calculations with a variety of standards, including EN15804 and EPDs, Environmental Footprint, and more. If this is of interest to your company, get in touch with the team to know more.
The LCA Collaboration Server
The LCA Collaboration Server enables a distributed, parallel collaboration for LCA and sustainability dataset and model creation and management. It also serves as a data repository, and provides versioning and tracking features.
