What’s new in GaBi Databases 2016 EditionMaintenance, update, new data products

Dr.-Ing. Thilo Kupfer,

Dr.-Ing. Marc-Andree Wolf

Webinar

27.01.2016

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Speakers

Team leader Content

PEF Specialist

Product Marketing

Dr. Thilo Kupfer Jim Craig

Product Manager Content,

Data and Software Innovation

Dr. Marc-Andree Wolf

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1. GaBi Databases 2016 Edition

2. Key influencing factors & changes

3. New datasets: highlights

4. LCIA Update, standards/compliance support

5. Enriched documentation of changes

6. Review

7. Questions and answers

Agenda

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GaBi Database 2016 Edition – what’s new?

Fully refreshed databases

European Construction

datasets

Future energy

grid mixes

PEF support

Indian Database

Investment goods/

Infrastructure

USLCI

Association data

EPDs

Other new content

GaBi Databases 2016 Edition

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PROFESSIONAL

154 Scope 2 & 3

electr. datasets

42 future grid

mix datasets

(all thinkstep data)

ENERGY

INTERMEDIATES

ELECTRONICS

RENEWABLES

FULL U.S.

NEW IN 2016: >1,600 additional data sets

377 USLCI

datasets

88 newly

developed

thinkstep

datasets

PLASTICS

Additional LCI content delivered through the maintenance package

660 European

Construction datasets

88 Association datasets

14 Capital goods /

Infrastructure datasets

14 Capital goods

parameterized plans

3 WWT parameterized

plans

(all thinkstep datasets)

Various new

thinkstep data in:

50 EPDs by

thinkstep

CONSTRUCTION

GaBi Databases Content development

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Commercially available LCI content

12/2011 12/2012 12/2013 12/2014 01/2016

>10,000

>8,400

>7,000

>5,600

>4,000

Need more data? “Data-on-Demand” service

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• Single datasets from an extension DB you do not want to buy

• Single datasets from our big central database that are not part of

the regular commercial databases

• Country variants

• Import mix, Country specific energy mixes, intermediate

materials or production routes

• “What if”-Scenarios

• The only information available is e.g. the material safety data sheet,

but you need a proxy dataset for checking the importance in your

system

• Newly developed datasets from scratch

Online documentation of available datasets: http://www.gabi-

software.com/international/databases/gabi-data-search/

Contact us: content@thinkstep.com

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1. GaBi Databases 2016 Edition

2. Key influencing factors & changes

3. New datasets: highlights

4. LCIA Update, standards/compliance support

5. Enriched documentation of changes

6. Review

7. Questions and answers

Agenda

How does the upgrade affect you?

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Adapt product

development or supply strategy

Change in performance

Focus on relevant data

Hot spot analysis

GaBi data - conformity to relevant standards and policies

GaBi data - continuous, up-to-date technology supply chain data

Improve your product performance by using up-to-date data,

representing today’s cleaner production

Dynamic development of grid mix

- Influence on most aggregated datasets

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• Dynamic, sometimes fast changing factor

• Ongoing trend in some countries increased share of renewable

energy carriers

• Key to most supply chains underlying every aggregated dataset

and LCI model

Germany EU-27 United States

Energy 2016 – per country, examples of changes

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Absolute GWP/kWh of electricity grid mix datasets

Improvement tracker software

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Auditable management system for the DB upgrade

• Collect, prioritise, implement: Client requests, improvements, error fixes –

all systematically addressed in fully auditable improvement tracker

• GaBi Databases 2016 Edition:

• 150 fixes

• 70 improvements, requests

Effects of the European LCP directive

on electricity grid mix (data)

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• The Large Combustion Plant (LCP)

Directive limits values for key

pollutants, such as SO2, NOx and

particulate matter

• Values binding for combustion plants

with a thermal capacity over 50 MW

since 2008

• Result: considerable reduction of

these emissions in several EU

Member States (e.g. Bulgaria,

Poland, Romania, Spain)

especially affecting AP and POCP

Selected example: Newer technology implemented

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• Datasets on glass fibres updated

• Lower NOx emissions released with the new technology

-54%

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Selected example: 10 year average price

for metals updated

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• 10 year average price updated based on USGS source

• Change on PGM metals LCIA results due to price allocation

applied. Selected examples:

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1. GaBi Databases 2016 Edition

2. Key influencing factors & changes

3. New datasets: highlights

4. LCIA Update, standards/compliance support

5. Enriched documentation of changes

6. Review

7. Questions and answers

Agenda

Capital goods – added to Prof database

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• Possibility to include capital goods to

LCI model through 14 new

parameterized models

• Adjustable to different capital good

“size” and other aspects

• Allows to further customise model by

replacing material and energy

background data by country-specific

datasets

Core capital goods worldwide can be

approximated

Future scenarios electricity mix Added to “Energy” extension

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42 new future electricity grid mix processes:

11 countries/regions with each three future scenarios: 2020, 2030 and 2040 (plus

2050 for some countries/regions)

EU-27

GWP of future scenarios

Example: Germany

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Electricity grid mixes: Scope 2 and 3

Added to “Energy” extension

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Scope 2 (direct) and Scope 3 (indirect) electricity grid mixes for 50 countries/regions

plus US differentiated by subregion/state - now available better supporting e.g.

Corporate Carbon Footprint modelling

US differentiated

by subregion / state

European Construction datasets – added to Prof & Extension “Construction products”

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• > 650 new datasets

• For construction materials,

paint-systems and complex

products (from gas boilers to

fluorescent lamps)

• Differentiated into production,

use phase and end-of-life, in

compliance with EN 15804

New extension DB: India

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• > 200 India-specific datasets

• Cradle-to-gate and gate-to-

gate LCIs

• Sectors covered: energy,

intermediates, plastics,

metals, construction,

electronics

• Release in February 2016

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1. GaBi Databases 2016 Edition

2. Key influencing factors & changes

3. New datasets: highlights

4. LCIA Update, standards/compliance support

5. Enriched documentation of changes

6. Review

7. Questions and answers

Agenda

CML 2015: Updated normalisation factors for ADP

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• CML 2015 contains an update of the normalisation factors

for Abiotic Resource Depletion of elements for the year 2000

in World and EU25+3

• The characterisation factors are not changed, i.e. only

normalised results are affected by this update

Discontinuation of maintenance of older impact methods

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• No further maintenance for Impact

assessment method versions older than

10 years

• Identified as ‘outdated’ in the balance

view

• New clients will not receive them in the

installation package (but they are kept

where already delivered)

Standards and compliance support

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• Example EN 15804: Differentiation of construction data

sets into modules, in line with this European construction

standard (see earlier slides)

• Example PEF/OEF development of the European

Commission:

• PEF/ILCD conform data format and flow list mapping (import

and export to/from GaBi for all users), compliant

documentation (directly in GaBi)

• Review process on many datasets

• 5 “PEF test kits” next slide

Implementation of the Product Environmental Footprint thinkstep’s “PEF test kits”

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• Support GaBi software and database users to effectively work in

the ongoing PEF supporting studies.

• Latest “PEF test kit V” (please contact support@gabi-

software.com): GaBi datasets (Upgrade 2014) are used as

basis. The additional features …

• Regionalised assessment of water resource depletion

with the UBP method and

• Land use assessment with the SOM method

• … are added to the datasets. The other results do not change.

Coming soon: “PEF test kit VI” containing 4 weighting sets (v0.2)

for testing single point results in PEF supporting studies

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1. GaBi Databases 2016 Edition

2. Key influencing factors & changes

3. New datasets: highlights

4. LCIA Update, standards/compliance support

5. Enriched documentation of changes

6. Review

7. Questions and answers

Agenda

Database Upgrade 2016 document

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• This “before and after” document explains

the most significant changes per sector /

GaBi database

• Provides impact, details, and reasons for

changes

• Delivered with the release notes

• Document will be available directly after

the release of the GaBi databases 2016

Documentation - details

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Relative changes per single dataset available upon request at

support@gabi-software.com

Full transparency:

Dive into the details on

individual dataset level in

75 impact categories

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1. GaBi Databases 2016 Edition

2. Key influencing factors & changes

3. New datasets: highlights

4. LCIA Update, standards/compliance support

5. Enriched documentation of changes

6. Review

7. Questions and answers

Agenda

DEKRA critical review process of GaBi Databases

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Unique, continuous, dependable

Credible, independent

sources underpinning each dataset

Up-to-date engineering know-how used in composing the

dataset

Accurate meta information

documenting the dataset

Systematic approach and

continuous process embedded

into thinkstep’s update routine

covering

Basic technologies, e.g.

power plants, refineries and

water treatment units

Dependent datasets derived

from these core models

Quality assurance

processes

DEKRA critical review process of GaBi Databases

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Unique level of quality and most credible data

Quality & credibility

Confidence to underwrite product sustainability claims, especially important when making public claims or aiming for compliance accreditation

Confidence

Increases the overall transparency of thinkstep data generation with the additional benefit of independent verification

Transparency

Reviews by DEKRA complement our systematic, internal

independent quality assurance process

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1. GaBi Databases 2016 Edition

2. Key influencing factors & changes

3. New datasets: highlights

4. LCIA Update, standards/compliance support

5. Enriched documentation of changes

6. Review

7. Questions and answers

Agenda

Question and answers

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