01. January 2009

FREE Educational licences for NON-OECD Countries

From January 1st 2009, the ecoinvent database will be provided free of charge for educational institutions in non-OECD countries for non-commercial use. Such an educational licence has the following characteristics:

illimited...

26. December 2008

User survey 2008: survey results and winners of the lots

Nearly 300 members and guests filled in our online questionnaire in October. We have now analysed the results which confirms us in our chosen strategy. As you can see from the Figure below, the most important features for our...

23. September 2008

ecoinvent Presentation at LCA VIII conference

The presentation from Bo Weidema, ecoinvent executive manager, on October 1st, 2008, at the LCA VIII conference in Seattle (USA), intitulated 'A globalisation strategy for the ecoinvent LCI database' can be downloaded here.

08. September 2008

Call for Editorial Board

The ecoinvent Centre is looking for EXPERTS for its International Editorial Board.

23. March 2008

2nd international ecoinvent event: presentations online

The various presentations of the 2nd international ecoinvent meeting, held on March 14, 2008 at the ETH Lausanne, are now available as pdf files online. More ...

13. March 2008

Führende Ökobilanzdatenbank massgeblich erweitert

Angewandte Forschung im Dienst der Umwelt.

25. February 2008

New ecoinvent management

Bo Weidema together with Roland Hischier will take over the work from Rolf Frischknecht and Mireille Faist on March 17, 2008.

10. January 2008

ecoinvent Newsletter No. 5

The ecoinvent Newsletter No. 5 reports on recent activities of the ecoinvent Centre

18. May 2007

ecoinvent Newsletter No. 4

The ecoinvent Newsletter No. 4 reports on recent activities of the ecoinvent Centre

18. May 2007

ecoinvent presentations at the SETAC Europa Annual Meeting in Porto

During the SETAC Europe Annual meeting in Porto, Portugal, two posters of the ecoinvent Centre will be presented. The first one, presented on Monday, May 21, 2007, during the Life Cycle Inventory Session deals with the...

18. May 2007

Special Sale ecoinvent data v1.3 and v2.0

Subscribe now for ecoinvent data v2.0 to be released in November 2007

30. March 2007

Paper on the environmental importance of capital goods and infrastructure published

Scientists working on ecoinvent datasets examined the iomportance of capital goods and infrastructures on the cumulative environmental impacts of products and services. The investigation revealed large differences between product...

26. October 2006

ecoinvent Team awarded "Best Methodological Contribution"

InLCA/LCM 2006 award given for a presentation on the environmental relevance of capital goods in products and services LCA.

24. October 2006

intermediate update v1.3 released

Further improvements of LCI database quality.

15. December 2005

Invited presentation by Rolf Frischknecht, Bangkok

Invited presentation by Rolf Frischknecht at the first international LCA-workshop of APEC economies in Bangkok, Thailand

23. November 2005

New ecoinvent Sales manager

New ecoinvent Sales manager:Annette Köhler (koehler@ecoinvent.ch) is happy to answer your questions regarding business related aspects of the ecoinvent database. To order ecoinvent licences your contact remains unchanged (Therese...

01. November 2005

Japanese ecoinvent Database now online

Japanese ecoinvent Database now online:The content of the ecoinvent database has been translated and made available to the Japanese market by Yamatake Corp.

13. July 2005

Marcus Dredge leaves Empa

Marcus Dredge (ecoinvent Sales manager) leaves Empa

01. January 2005

Reorganisation of the ecoinvent Centre

Alexander Wokaun, PSI is chair of the new ecoinvent Board. EAWAG leaves the ecoinvent Board.

The ecoinvent Centre is lead by Rolf Frischknecht (Lead and Content) and Marcus Dredge (Sales). The ecoinvent Centre is hosted by Empa.

25. October 2004

6th ecobalance conference, Tsukuba, Japan

6th ecobalance conference, Tsukuba, Japan:Invited keynote presentation on the ecoinvent database.

06. October 2004

Roadshow LCA software and data in Basel

Roadshow LCA software and data in Basel, Switzerland (in German):The ecoinvent Database and the software tools Umberto, SimaPro and ProdTect are presented.

05. December 2003

Special LCA forum:

Special LCA forum:ecoinvent 2000: Results of the harmonisation and update of Swiss LCA data (presentations in English). Download of Presentations.

01. December 2003

New webpage "Database News"

A new webpage "Database News" is introduced which informs about database errors and corrections.

19. September 2003

LCA-Forum 20, ETH Zürich:

LCA-Forum 20, ETH Zürich: ecoinvent 2000: Results of the harmonisation and update of Swiss LCA data (presentations in German). The slides of the presentations can be downloaded here.

30. April 2003

Closed ecoinvent Workshop with suppliers of LCA software

Closed ecoinvent Workshop with suppliers of LCA software (carbotech AG, ifu Hamburg, PE Europe/IKP, PRé, PWC/ecobilan, Sinum AG, and Sylvatica) about the implementation of the EcoSpold data format in LCA software, Hamburg

28. April 2003

Presentation "ISO/TS 14.048"

Presentation "ISO/TS 14.048 – a good basis for implementation of process data exchange interfaces in LCA software?", by J. Hedemann, R. Frischknecht, P. Müller-Beilschmidt, SETAC-Europe meeting, Hamburg

09. April 2003

Going online of ecoinvent data version 1.0

Going online of ecoinvent data version 1.0

18. November 2002

Presentation "Ökoinventare und deren strategische Bedeutung"

Presentation "Ökoinventare und deren strategische Bedeutung" by Paul W. Gilgen, Final Workshop "Qualitätssicherung und nutzerorientierte Bereitstellung von Lebenszyklusdaten", Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe.

12. September 2002

Presentation about ecoinvent 2000 by Rolf Frischknecht

Presentation about ecoinvent 2000 by Rolf Frischknecht, 12. Status-Seminar "Energie- und Umweltforschung im Bauwesen", ETH Zürich

14. February 2002

Presentation about ecoinvent 2000 by Paul W. Gilgen

Presentation about ecoinvent 2000 by Paul W. Gilgen, R‘02 Conference, Geneva. This up-to-date overview of the project; download slides.

12. October 2001

Presentation about ecoinvent 2000

Presentation about ecoinvent 2000 by Rolf Frischknecht, 15th International Symposium Informatics for Environmental Protection, ETH Zürich, download manuscript.