GaBi Education - GaBi Software

Procedure
In most cases there are several quantities associated with a flow. New quantities can be
created in order to describe a special property of a flow.
You will also notice the LCC tab. LCC stands for Life Cycle Costing and refers to a
methodology that allows you to calculate the costs related to the life cycle of the system
being studied. On the LCC tab economical quantities, such as the price can be defined for
the flow.
At this stage we do not need to go deeper into quantities. It is enough to understand that
GaBi uses this information to calculate the potential environmental impact of the analyzed
system.
9. You can close the „Natural gas‟ flow window.
3.4 Starting a project
You are going to construct a model of a steel paperclip. We already did some research on
the paper clip, defined the goal and scope definition and qualitatively described the paper
clip life cycle. Let´s convert all this information into a new GaBi project.
10. Click on „Projects‟ in the object hierarchy and start a new project by right clicking
in the display area on the right.
11. Name this project „Life Cycle Steel Paper Clip.‟
12. Click „Activate project.‟
Once the project is activated, all newly created processes, plans and flows will be saved
under this project. This makes it much easier to find all the relevant information when you
open the project in the future. It is a good idea to work with projects to keep your LCA’s
organised.
13. Close the project window.
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