Advance your environmental reporting practice with the tools and technical knowledge to generate product-specific life cycle assessment results.

Presented by Norbert Michel, Director and Principal Consultant at Michel Consulting and Enterprises Pty Ltd, and Rob Rouwette, Director and Principal Consultant at start2see Pty Ltd, AfPA delivers a technical session on the AfPA LCA Calculator v2.0. Whether you work in asphalt production, product innovation and development, sustainability reporting, are considering developing EPDs for your products, or even if you work at a council, state road authority or other stakeholder organisation and want to see how the updated calculator has functionality tailored to you, this session provides the technical knowledge and practical guidance to apply the updated calculator with confidence.

The calculator supports a wide range of users with varying levels of access to asphalt plant data. Asphalt producers with access to detailed plant and product data can undertake the most detailed and comprehensive analyses using the calculator. The introduction of default asphalt plants gives intermediate users the option to test the effect of changing asphalt mix designs, while in its simplest setting the user can select a combination of standard asphalt products and a default asphalt plant. The session outlines how the updated calculator strengthens industry capability to generate environmental product declarations (EPDs) efficiently and more cost-effectively.

Applications and future development
The session will demonstrate how the updated calculator supports industry applications including detailed asphalt plant production analysis and product mix carbon estimation. Attendees will receive insight into planned future developments positioning the calculator as a core industry tool for EPD generation.