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DOCUMENTATION OF LCWE DATA IN GABI 4 - GaBi Software

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2.6<br />

2.7 CComparabbility<br />

of targets<br />

andd<br />

indicator rs<br />

1. TThe<br />

goals aand<br />

indicato ors should bbe<br />

compara able in an international<br />

context.<br />

2. TThe<br />

goals aand<br />

indicato ors should bbe<br />

compara able between<br />

different iindustries.<br />

2.8<br />

The goaals<br />

and inddicators<br />

sho ould have a direct rela ation to pro oducts or prrocesses<br />

or<br />

should<br />

facilitatee<br />

to be relatted<br />

to them.<br />

2.9 AAverage<br />

vvalidity<br />

The indicators<br />

should<br />

remain valid for aveerage<br />

mode elling, i.e. useful<br />

for LCCWE<br />

databa ases.<br />

2.10 SSystem<br />

booundaries<br />

s, cut-off ccriteria,<br />

re eference sy ystem<br />

They arre<br />

chosen iin<br />

accordan nce with thee<br />

ISO 1404 40 and 140 044 (CEN 22006),<br />

whereas<br />

the<br />

“environnmental<br />

releevance”<br />

is substituted s by the “social<br />

relevanc ce”.<br />

2.11 TTemporal<br />

stability and a time sseries<br />

The callculation<br />

of the social indicators sshould<br />

be repeatable r for other ye years, which h means<br />

that timee<br />

series shoow<br />

the actu ual changess.<br />

2.12<br />

The datta<br />

collectionn<br />

should be viable undeer<br />

justifiable e effort.<br />

3<br />

The nexxt<br />

paragrapphs<br />

will exp plain the L<strong>LCWE</strong><br />

meth hod develop ped at Univversity<br />

of Stuttgart, S<br />

LBP-GaaBi.<br />

3.1<br />

No Overlaap<br />

There sshould<br />

be nno<br />

overlap between thhe<br />

different indicators to avoid doouble<br />

counting<br />

and<br />

thereforre<br />

overvaluaation<br />

of sing gle effects.<br />

Product/PProcess-re<br />

elatednesss<br />

Data availlability/eff<br />

fort<br />

<strong>LCWE</strong>E<br />

METHOD D DESCRIPPTION<br />

Indicatorss<br />

chosen for f integraation<br />

into LCA<br />

Table 1 shows thhe<br />

indicators<br />

chosen to be inte egrated into o the Life<br />

methodology<br />

basinng<br />

on the cr riteria descrribed<br />

above.<br />

Cycle Eng gineering<br />

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