# LCA courses for buildings (and materials) **URL:** \ **Category:** Education/Research\ **Tags:** buidings, lca-practice\ **Created:** [April 7, 2020, 5:33am UTC](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/t/lca-courses-for-buildings-and-materials/896 "2020-04-07T05:33:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![christina.cheong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@christina.cheong](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/u/christina.cheong)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 5:33am UTC](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/t/lca-courses-for-buildings-and-materials/896/1 "2020-04-07T05:33:55Z")
Hi, can anyone point me to online courses and tools for learning how to perform LCA for buildings and building materials? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![jayarehart](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.carbonleadershipforum.org/jayarehart/32/444_2.png) [@jayarehart](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/u/jayarehart)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 6:33am UTC](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/t/lca-courses-for-buildings-and-materials/896/2 "2020-04-07T06:33:39Z")
Stefan Pauliuk’s open course is a useful starting place that’s open and free to all. It’s a little bit more focused on the theory of things (less on buildings), but hope that you (and anybody else) find it useful. [http://www.teaching.industrialecology.uni-freiburg.de](http://www.teaching.industrialecology.uni-freiburg.de) ---
**Author:** ![darin.bierbaum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a4c791/32.png) [@darin.bierbaum](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/u/darin.bierbaum)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 10:38am UTC](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/t/lca-courses-for-buildings-and-materials/896/3 "2020-04-07T10:38:56Z")
Christina, Carnegie-Mellon University has an entire course on Box which is available for free with a digital textbook. I have found it useful. I have only started going through the textbook (in chapter 3), but it is an easy read. The Athena Sustainable Materials Institute has several resources as well. Here are the links to both. Hope this helps. [https://app.boxcn.net/s/5mnzyq1y3gcyjrveubf4](https://app.boxcn.net/s/5mnzyq1y3gcyjrveubf4) > **[LCAtextbook.com - Free Textbook and Other Learning Resources for the Global...](https://www.lcatextbook.com/)** > > Free Textbook and Other Learning Resources for the Global LCA Community [http://www.athenasmi.org/](http://www.athenasmi.org/) ---
**Author:** ![christina.cheong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@christina.cheong](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/u/christina.cheong)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/t/lca-courses-for-buildings-and-materials/896/4 "2020-04-08T02:48:31Z")
thanks for these resources! much appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![ksimonen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.carbonleadershipforum.org/ksimonen/32/97_2.png) [@ksimonen](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/u/ksimonen)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/t/lca-courses-for-buildings-and-materials/896/5 "2020-04-08T22:09:28Z")
Check out the [Carbon Leadership Forum’s LCA Practice](http://carbonleadershipforum.org/projects/lca-practice-guide/) guide. Part B goes into examples of conducting an LCA. Check out the roadmap as well-some great ideas of how/when to integrate LCA in practice. Plus some of the webinars posted [HERE](http://carbonleadershipforum.org/embodied-carbon-network/webinars/) give case studies of buildings. ---
**Author:** ![walter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.carbonleadershipforum.org/walter/32/226_2.png) [@walter](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/u/walter)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 11:27pm UTC](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/t/lca-courses-for-buildings-and-materials/896/6 "2020-04-08T23:27:54Z")
Endeavour Centre has this webinar coming up on the 30th: > **[Basic Carbon Accounting For Buildings- 1.5hrs -](https://endeavourcentre.eventsmart.com/events/basic-carbon-accounting-for-buildings-1-5hrs/)** > > Basic Carbon Accounting For Buildings- 1.5hrs - Basic Carbon Accounting for Buildings webinar Instructor: Chris Magwood   The up-front carbon emissions from buildings - often called "embodied ---
**Author:** ![ksimonen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.carbonleadershipforum.org/ksimonen/32/97_2.png) [@ksimonen](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/u/ksimonen)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 2:15am UTC](https://community.carbonleadershipforum.org/t/lca-courses-for-buildings-and-materials/896/7 "2020-04-14T02:15:09Z")
I changed this tag to Education as I see lots of good resources for teaching as well here! We’re starting to pull together a [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeIwsmA8ul3iazdy5M9i2w). Any playlists people have we’re happy to link in! Kate