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The requested presentation content can be played using the following plugins:Silverlight, Html5 We have detected that your browser supports the following plugins:None. Download-dss-direct - prosuite.org. The Prosuite Framework - prosuite.org. The figure below shows a schematic representation of the new PROSUITE Sustainability Assessment Framework.

The Prosuite Framework - prosuite.org

It is followed by a description of the 5 major impact categories. Impact on human health: The impacts on human health of a new technology include all changes in morbidity and mortality that are caused by the introduction of new technologies, through all possible pathways, including environmental, occupational and as consumer. These can be quantified using the ‘DALY-concept’ (Disability Adjusted Life Years). Impact on social well-being: The social impact includes all impacts on human well-being that are related to inter-human relationships. Impact on human well-being includes everything that affects the quality of life of people both on an individual and collective basis (however, excluding human health and economics).

Impact on prosperity: Technology development is often pursued to increase the quantity and quality of goods and services for consumption. Download Page - openLCA.org. In this section you find the latest installation files of the openLCA framework, format converter, and later also other freely available software tools, with their source code.

Download Page - openLCA.org

You can also download the files from sourceforge, where you find also older versions and further information, as for instance the public bug tracker. RSS feed openLCA openLCA is now available in version 1.3.4, released December 18 2013. Our tests have not shown any issues, and we recommend to install this version. As an important addition first plugins are available, including one for our nexus webshop. As introduced in 1.2.9 aready, you will notice during the installation that openLCA can now also be installed in your local user directory. Installation files openLCA framework version 1.3.4 for Windows 32bit. Home - openLCA.org. OpenLCA is a free, professional Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and footprint software with a broad range of features and many available databases, created by GreenDelta since 2006.

Home - openLCA.org

It is an open source software; the software and its source code is freely available. The software is fully transparent and can be modified by anyone. Besides being open source and free, openLCA offers... professional life cycle modeling, up-to-date usability, a broad choice of life cycle databases, probably the largest worldwide, and fluent collaboration for teams. This leads us to say: "openLCA - doing more with less". We invite you to take a tour through the site and to explore openLCA. Deliverables. C/document_library/get_file?uuid=c27b9919-2e04-4a02-83a7-9189e525cfde&groupId=12772. Final Project Conference - prosuite.org. On Wednesday 30 October 2013 in Brussels, 80 participants from across Europe and beyond attended our final project conference under the chairmanship of Mr.

Final Project Conference - prosuite.org

Michele GALATOLA (coordinator of the EU Ecolabel — DG Environment). A wide audience of policy makers, industrial actors, consultants and academics took this opportunity to learn about our novel framework and tools for the sustainability impact assessment of new technologies, to witness the case study assessments, and to see the handbook which accompanies our decision support system. Custom Software Development.

EarthShift's software development team works with our clients to create custom tools that integrate effectively with our primary investigative and evaluation tool: SimaPro.

Custom Software Development

We also develop stand-alone tools designed to address a specific technology, manufacturing process, materials application or other unique circumstance such as individualized terminology. All our software programs are designed to produce critical environmental data including life cycle stages and carbon calculations that can be transferred to various departments, divisions or locations across a corporate structure. The ease of use and ready access to data allow your technical staff to quickly determine, at the earliest stages of design or development, which options have the least environmental impact.

Custom tool creation may also be a convenient way to scale up to a larger sustainability program by applying the basic principles to a specific problem.