GaBi Envision

for Eco-design

Dr Peter Shonfield

Technical Director

Agenda

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1. About thinkstep

2. Benefits of life cycle thinking

3. GaBi Envision

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About thinkstep

Life cycle thinking

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Raw Materials

Final DisposalRecycling

Materials

Manufacture

Products

Manufacture

Transportation & Manufacture

Use

Carrying out LCAs

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Expert tools such as GaBi Professional

• Very powerful and flexible

• Can model almost any system

But

• These are complicated

• Training and regular use required to

maintain skills/knowledge

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Challenge Solution

A robust, yet user-friendly tool to

evaluate product design scenarios

LCA model & data run behind the

simplified user interface

Limited internal capacity to perform

LCAs in houseNo LCA expertise required to gain

accurate results

Large group of internal stakeholders

need decision support

As a web-based tool, dozens of

stakeholders can adjust and share

results

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GaBi Envision

Create product and

process models

Easy to access

interface for detailed

LCA

Evaluate ‘what-if’

scenarios and

improve

Effectively communicate sustainability

attributes

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• LCA experts within your company

• External consultants such as thinkstep

• Sector specific, pre-configured models

GaBi Envision provides a user-friendly interface to access detailed LCA

models built in GaBi Professional allowing the user to create different

product design scenarios based on key sustainability attributes.

Create product and

process models

Easy to access

interface for detailed

LCA

Evaluate ‘what-if’

scenarios and

improve

Effectively communicate sustainability

attributes

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• Detailed LCA models

• Streamlined, easy to use interface

• Products and design scenarios in terms users recognise

GaBi Envision

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Create product and

process models

Easy to access

interface for detailed

LCA

Evaluate ‘what-if’

scenarios and

improve

Effectively communicate sustainability

attributes.

• LCA decision support for product design

• Evaluate scenarios to enable decisions and drive improvements

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Create product and

process models

Easy to access

interface for detailed

LCA

Evaluate ‘what-if’

scenarios and

improve

Effectively communicate sustainability

attributes

Add material and process model improvements

• Generate reports including text, charts and tables of products and

design scenarios

• Internal benchmarking to track progress

• EPD generation

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Logging in

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Entering data

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Entering data

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Viewing results – preview charts and tables

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Viewing results – interactive report

Interactive report

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