| Academic degree: | | | Last name: | Althaus | | First name: | Hans-Jörg | | Responsible for: | | | Organization/Institute: | Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (Empa) | | Department: | Technology and Society Laboratory | | Position: | | | Street, Number, POB: | Ueberlandstrasse 129 | | Postal code, City: | 8600 Duebendorf | | State: | | | Country: | SWITZERLAND | | Phone: | | | Fax: | | | E-mail address: | hans-joerg.althaus@empa.ch | | Url: | http://www.empa.ch/lca | | Curriculum vitae: | Studies of material science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) with focus on metals and polymers. Master thesis on ´High refractive index nano-composites of iron sulphides and poly(ethylene oxide)´ in 1994.
1995-1999 R&D engineer for solar energy systems in a SME producing components for solar energy systems.
Since 1999 at EMPA working in material related LCA projects and in the field of sustainable buildings. Responsible for metals, wood and building materials in ecoinvent.
Since 2004 Head of unit Life Cycle Assessment at EMPA and work on a PhD on integration of traffic noise in generic LCA. | | Areas of interest: | | wood | | metals | | building and environment | | ecoinvent | | noise, LCIA | | |
| | Articles: | 12 LCA_Special (1) 7-17 (2007), The Environmental Relevance of Capital Goods in Life Cycle Assessments of Products and Services (11 pp)
12 LCA (3) 160-172 (2007), Post-Consumer Waste Wood in Attributive Product LCA. Context specific evaluation of allocation procedures in a functionalistic conception of LCA (13 pp)
10 LCA (1) 50-58 (2005), Developments in Wood and Packaging Materials Life Cycle Inventories in ecoinvent (9 pp)
10 LCA (1) 35-42 (2005), Manufacturing and Disposal of Building Materials and Inventorying Infrastructure in ecoinvent (8 pp)
10 LCA (1) 43-49 (2005), Life Cycle Inventories of Metals and Methodological Aspects of Inventorying Material Resources in ecoinvent (7 pp)
10 LCA (1) 3-9 (2005), The ecoinvent Database: Overview and Methodological Framework (7 pp)
11 LCA (6) 425-436 (2006), Environmental Assessment of End-of-Life Treatment Options for a GSM 900 Antenna Rack (12 pp paper version/18 pp online version)
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