Incorporating primary data from supplier into database of OPENLCA

Question

Hi, I'm a concrete producer and now calculating the environmental impact of our product according to EN 15804. My cement supplier has an EPD and I would like to know how to incorporate the data of this supplier into my database in OPENLCA. Is that possible to create a process for cement with exactly the same environmental impact?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Answer 1

Hi, yes that is possible but even better would be to incorporate the information as result. You can check the webinar we recently made about EPDs in openLCA (live webinar on the openLCA youtube channel) or also the handbook, https://manuals.openlca.org/openlca/, https://manuals.openlca.org/openlca/EPDs/index.html.

Comments

Hi Andreas, thank you for the great answer. That works! However,  I think some adjustments to the manual should be made.  The step where the newly created result has to be manually dragged into the "model graph" to be linked to the input is missing. I struggled a bit at this point because this step is not described in the manual. Fortunatedly, I found the way myself after experimenting with the program over and over.

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thank you for the feedback! In the manual it is maybe a bit hidden, here: https://manuals.openlca.org/openlca/EPDs/life_cycle_models.html, we show it also in the webinar. Thank you again!