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Rolf Frischknecht was the spiritus rector of the ecoinvent databases v1 and v2

Rolf Frischknecht was project leader of the ecoinvent projects, with the aim to design, build-up and introduce a large national, web-based LCA database. From 2005 to March 2008 he lead the ecoinvent Centre, maintaining and further extending the ecoinvent database.

The ecoinvent Centre is now the world's leading supplier of consistent and transparent life cycle inventory data of known quality and offers science-based, industrial, international life cycle assessment and life cycle management data and services. 

Our staff provided LCI data on energy systems such as natural gas, photovoltaics, electricity mixes, hydroelectric power plants, electricity distribution and transmission networks, on mobility inventories such as electric vehicles and bicycles and on chemicals.

Visit ecoinvent's website for further information.

Media

"Ökobilanzen: Instrumente im Dienste der Umwelt" In the radio program "context" professionals (including Rolf Frischknecht) inform about the concept of LCA and the ecoinvent database. The broadcast was aired Wednesday, April 9, 2008 on Radio SRF 2 Kultur. The broadcast can also be heard online or downloaded as mp3.

Boom bei den Ökobilanzen – auch dank immer umfassenderen Datensätzen. Lebenszyklusanalysen als Entscheidungshilfe für Politik, Wirtschaft und Konsumenten, NZZ, March 5, 2008