DOCUMENTATION OF LCWE DATA IN GABI 4 - GaBi Software
DOCUMENTATION OF LCWE DATA IN GABI 4 - GaBi Software
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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