Making meaningful product choices with simplified Life Cycle Assessment

Practical Life Cycle Assessment training for circular and low-carbon innovation

Do you want to reduce your product’s carbon footprint early in development? Sustainable product design starts with clear insight into environmental impact. Yet a full Life Cycle Assessment often feels too complex in early design phases. In this masterclass, you learn how to apply a simplified LCA. You gain practical tools to support eco-design, circular economy strategies and better material choices.
 

Make smarter product decisions with simplified LCA

Reducing environmental impact is no longer optional. Customers expect transparency. Regulators demand proof. ESG targets shape strategy.

You need reliable data during product development. Especially when design freedom is still high. That is where simplified Life Cycle Assessment makes the difference.

A full ISO 14040-compliant LCA can take months. Early design teams do not have that time. A simplified LCA gives you fast insight into environmental hotspots, carbon footprint and material impact.

You identify leverage points before costs are locked in. You support sustainable product development with clear numbers. And you avoid late design changes.
 

Why simplified LCA works in early design

During concept development, uncertainty is high. Data is incomplete. Yet decisions have the largest impact.

A simplified LCA helps you:

• Estimate product carbon footprint in early stages
• Compare sustainable material alternatives
• Focus efficiently on the main environmental leverage points
• Deal with missing data and make well-founded assumptions
• Apply TU Delft’s open-source Ecocost method to your own product context
• Use LCA as a lever for innovation and circular design
   

For whom?

This masterclass is designed for professionals in the manufacturing industry who want to strategically strengthen sustainable product development. Are you working on eco-design, circular economy strategies or reducing product carbon footprint? Then this training closely matches your daily practice.

The session is relevant for professionals active in:

• Product design and R&D in industrial product development
• Innovation and sustainable product development
• Business development and product management with a focus on ESG and market positioning
• Sustainability, environment, EHS and compliance with European regulations
• C-level management and strategy responsible for transition and growth

You are involved in early-stage design decisions. You are looking for practical tools to integrate Life Cycle Assessment into your innovation process. You want to translate environmental impact into strategic choices and measurable KPIs.
 

Programme

Setting up a Life Cycle Assessment

• You define the purpose and functional unit
• You map the product system
• You understand the key phases of a life cycle assessment, from raw material extraction to end-of-life
• You learn how ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 structure an LCA
   

Methodology and practical application

• You explore Life Cycle Inventory and Life Cycle Impact Assessment
• You work with simplified datasets
• You interpret midpoint and endpoint indicators
• You learn how to deal with missing data, transport assumptions and recycling scenarios
   

Ecocost method and business value

• You apply TU Delft’s open-source Ecocost method
• You calculate the Ecovalue Ratio
• You connect environmental impact to financial value creation
• You discover how LCA supports:
  • Circular business models
  • Sustainable materials selection
  • Environmental KPIs and product carbon footprint
  • Innovation portfolio management
     

Regulation, reporting and communication

• You understand environmental claims and green marketing risks
• You explore Environmental Product Declarations and digital product passports
   

How this masterclass creates impact

You do not just learn theory. You work on practical exercises. You apply methods to real product cases.

You leave with a clear framework to integrate Life Cycle Assessment into your development process. You strengthen your competitive position through measurable sustainability.

You make sustainable design decisions faster. Without the complexity of a full LCA.
 

Flemish companies can take advantage of a subsidy from VLAIO for this course

This programme is part of Industriepartnershap in which 13 Flemish innovation partners offer an integrated service to stimulate growth and innovation in the Flemish industry in the 6 following themes: AI, Cybersecurity, Circularity, Digitisation, Climate & Energy and Industry 4.0. They do so under the leadership of Agoria and Sirris and with the support of Agentschap Innoveren & Ondernemen.

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