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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 groups and environmental indicators.

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

Further improvements of LCI database quality.

A list of errors in ecoinvent datasets can be downloaded here.

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

New ecoinvent Sales manager:
Annette Köhler (koehler(at)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 Bracher ­ Tel. +41(0)71 ...

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

ecoinvent Data v1.2 online:
Documentation of the changes made from Data v1.1 to Data v1.2 can be downloaded here.

Marcus Dredge (ecoinvent Sales manager) leaves Empa

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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.

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

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

ecoinvent data version 1.1 is online
- additional life cycle inventories (building materials, chemicals, heat pumps)
- correction of errors discovered until now (see below).

Further errors in life cycle inventory datasets v1.01 (corrected in v1.1):

• The emission to rivers of "oil, unspecified" released by the Swiss refinery was distinctly wrong. However, as no LCIA method includes this pollutant (COD or BOD is used to consider its eutrophying impact, w...

Data capacity increase:
The capacity of the data lines to the ecoinvent Database server has been increased by a factor 4, in order to further reduce the response time of database queries.

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

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

Going online of ecoinvent data version 1.01
While preparing the presentation on September 19, the following optimisations have been realised:
- wood upstream and wood boilers: refinement of the carbon balance
- global warming potential (IPCC): introduction of GWP of additional substan...

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.

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

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

Going online of ecoinvent data version 1.0

The ecoinvent website is online with a demo-version of the database.