Product sustainability accelerate to the next generation with gabi 5 software gabi is the most trusted product sustainability solution for life cycle assessm. Jim fava founder product sustainability roundtable. Through market leading software solutions, five winds strategic consulting services and implementation methodologies, pe international has worked with some of the worlds most respected firms to develop the strategies, management systems, tools and processes needed to achieve leadership in sustainability. Simapro and gabi are two of the most popular software packages, likely due in part to their wide range of. Tool measures building materials environmental impact.
Life cycle assessment of fast pyrolysis of municipal solid. Every day over 2,500 leading businesses rely on gabi software to drive their product sustainability gabi is the most trusted product sustainability solution for life cycle assessment with over 10,000 users including fortune 500 companies, leading industry associations and innovative smes. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover liilas. Assuming the artificial tree is used for five years before disposal, the.
Sustainability visionary kevin brady is selected as one of. The water quality association partnered with pe international and five winds strategic consulting to develop a sustainability program for the water treatment industry. Testimonial we recently hired five winds to support development of our sustainable business strategy at a corporate trailblazing event. Framework for a life cycle assessment of paper in the mail.
Through market leading software solutions, five winds strategic consulting services and implementation methodologies pe international has worked with some of the worlds most respected firms to. Over 30 years of life cycle expertise by thinkstep is captured in gabi databases, which always feature the most accurate life cycle inventory profiles based on primary industry data. Peinternational is a united states software company that was founded in 1991, and offers a software title called gabi software. However, much more important is the quantification of emissions from battery production, which is a particularly critical parameter in the comparison of the two vehicle types. Stuttgart, germanyboulder, co prweb november 30, 2011 pe international and five winds strategic consulting has once again expanded the universe for product sustainability solutions with the release of gabi 5, the worlds leading product sustainability software platform. Lifecycle assessment comparison between 15mw second. Pe international and five winds strategic consulting the worlds leading. Does it matter which life cycle assessment lca tool you. Architecture firm kierantimberlake has launched a software application that allows designers to measure the environmental impact of building materials directly in a revit model. The system has been modelled using gabi software 4. Cofounder of five winds international in 1998, which grew from 4 professionals to over 150 with merger with pe now thinkstep in 2012 in na, europe, africa, austasia, and india. With gabi software you have the unique choice to combine gabi databases, created by pe international, with other commercial databases and regional content such as ecoinvent, us lci, elcd and others. For more than 10 years, vestas has prepared lcas of wind power.
Food scraps become highvalue fertilizer biosolids which can. Sustainability consulting company pe international has launched the newest version of its lifecycle assessment program gabi. Through market leading software solutions, five winds strategic consulting services and implementation methodologies pe international has worked with some of the worlds most respected firms to develop the strategies, management systems, tools and processes needed to achieve leadership in sustainability. Through a lot of hard work and strategy, the group aggressively gained new contracts for the gabi software and for life cycle assessment lca consulting work. This paper contains a detailed cradletogate lifecycle assessment of the 15mw 2ghtsddsg and pmddsg, using gabi 6 commercial software and pe international professional and ecoinvent 2. Sustainability gap assessment and strategy development gabi software suite for product and process sustainability gabi. Database development at pe involves experts on lca methodology, with.
Pe international and five winds strategic consulting services supported brady in the development of the report by collecting and verifying sustainability performance data, conducting interviews, writing the draft content and preparing the report to satisfy the global reporting initiatives application level c. Pe americas specializes in life cycle assessment studies and related consulting services. Steve baer, a principal consultant at sustainability management consulting firm pe international and five winds strategic consulting, says the good news is that all the lca tools are in place to make materials, products, and buildings safer for both homeowners and the environment. Does it matter which life cycle assessment lca tool you choose. In january 2001, the core group of researchers purchased the company. Gabi software is environmental software, and includes features such as air management, compliance management, emissions inventory, sustainability management, waste management, and water management. View liila woods profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. The impacts were calculated using the gabi 6 software developed by pe international and were presented in section 3. Pe subsidiaries presence of pe or partners software sales partner five winds international. Handbook for life cycle assessment lca by sphera issuu.
Gabi the worlds leading life cycle assessment software. Other commercial packages include sisostaqua used by. Gabi 5 models every element of a product or system from a lifecycle perspective, allowing businesses to make informed decisions on the sustainability of their manufactured products, pe says. The lcas assessed all life cycle stages and were built using gabi dfx software. Sustainability consulting firms pe international and five winds international, which share clients including kraft and carnival cruise lines, have announced a merger aimed at enabling market penetration in north america. We enable lca professionals to affect business results by helping to save money, reduce risk, communicate product benefits and increase revenue. The validity of the dataset is given for about five years until 2016. For more product relevant information on the terms and conditions of pe international ag and the complete gabi. The new combined company will provide the north american market. The lca model was created using the gabi 4 software system for. Product sustainability performance gabi is the most trusted product sustainability solution for life cycle assessment with over 10,000 users including fortune 500 companies, leading industry. Life cycle assessment of fast pyrolysis of municipal solid waste in north carolina of usa. Jim fava founder product sustainability roundtable linkedin. Rapid growth in sustainability market drives merger of leading players pe international and five winds international merge to provide global sustainability software.
Evaluation of the environmental impact of road pavements. I was a cofounder of five winds, which merged with pe international and. The lca model was created using the gabi 4 software system for life cycle. Wqa ready to launch sustainability program and green. Wqa has taken a unique and holistic approach to advancing sustainability for its sector by simultaneously targeting product and organizational sustainability within its. Pe international supports brady corporation in launching. Powerful lca tools and lca databases for product and process sustainability analyses. Gabi combines the worlds leading life cycle assessment lca modelling and reporting software, content databases with intuitive data collection and reporting tools. I highly recommend her expertise to solve any issues with a welldeveloped strategy. Besides the difficulty in controlling open field burring due to variable winds. Life cycle assessment of polymers in an automotive assist. Concept and utilization of socioeconomic flows 152154 7. Fortune 500 with robust, proven software, data drawn from more than 7,000. Description of the socioeconomic flows developed at the lbp 154155 7.
Pe international is a united states software company that was founded in 1991, and offers a software title called gabi software. Created by thinkstep gabi databases are the largest internally consistent lca databases on the market today and contain over 12,500 datasets. It combines a distributed gathering of sustainability information across sites with a powerful central management and reporting system. Basf established a stakeholder advisory council sac to provide advice and.
Five 5 households were selected, one from each of the cardinal polling units in ibapon ward 4 of the lga under study. A comparative lifecycle assessment of rural parboiling. Through marketleading software solutions, five winds strategic consulting services and implementation methodologies pe international has worked with some of the worlds most respected firms to develop the strategies, management systems, tools and processes needed to achieve leadership in sustainability. Customers detail department for environment, food and rural affairs defra defra received a panoramic snapshot of the extent of green claims on consumer products after five winds s now pe international inc. Thematic seminar series sustainable consumption and. Pe international launches gabi 5, software which guarantees sustainability in every manufactured product mhwmagazine november 21, 2011 rfid and it, wasteline michael betz, the ceo of international sustainability software giant pe international can relax a little. The gabi database was developed in gabi 4 by pe international. Eric munsing quantitative researcher teza technologies. The gabi database is the largest internally consistent lca database developed by pe international gmbh, germany. Featuring a powerful life cycle assessment engine, the software supports life cycle assessments, life cycle costing, life cycle reporting and life cycle working environment. Gabi software has been developed in accordance with the iso 14040 and iso 14044 standards and allows for managing and storing the necessary data, as well as performing. Evaluation of the environmental impact of road pavements from a life cycle perspective.
Liila woods gabi solutions account executive sphera linkedin. Gabi software by pe international is the most trusted pro cluding all inputs and outputs e. Pe international became the industry spinoff for this software. The new tool, tally, provides life cycle assessment lca on demand, backed by gabi data from pe international. Green public procurement consultation comhar response. Pe americas, a joint venture of pe international and five winds international, represents the worlds largest and oldest network of sustainability experts, dedicated to providing a onestop shop. Our industryleading corporate sustainability and product stewardship software, data and consulting services help businesses drive operational excellence, product innovation, brand value and regulatory compliance. Sofi software corporate sustainability sofi is the leading software for environmental and sustainability corporate social responsibility management. Life cycle impact assessment of aluminum beverage cans. Rapid growth in sustainability market drives merger of. Application of traci and cml modeling tools in life cycle. Cofounder of five winds international in 1998, which grew. Gabi manual gabi software gabi manual 1 1 table of contents 1. A comparative lifecycle assessment of rural parboiling system and an integrated steaming and drying system fired with rice husk.
Gabi software developed by pe international, gabi 5 is the newest version of its product sustainability solution. The battery production study 4, cited by sinn and his coauthors, shows the immense range of values published to make such comparisons and the relevance of the energy demand. Underlying all of these is software and managed services capability that can. We also thank jim fava, president of five winds, nuno da silva and coppelia. The lcia was conducted based on the inventory data collected for the two parboiling systems using the gabi 6 software pe. Sustainability report 20102011 pe international issuu. Pe international and five winds strategic consulting has once again expanded the universe for product sustainability solutions with the release of gabi 5, the worlds leading product sustainability software platform. Gabi db in the international context of databases and frameworks. Pe americas, a bostonbased joint venture of pe international and five winds international, has an immediate opening for a lca position. Life cycle environmental impacts of readymade meals. We ensure individual datasets are comparable by using consistent methods and boundaries in their construction. Measuring sustainability the farm hub textile exchange.
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