Release Notes for Umberto LCA+ 10.0.3.200

Improvements and bugfixes

• Fixed performance issue of Windows users with restricted access rights working with large databases (e.g. ecoinvent 3.8).
• When updating Umberto models containing ecoinvent processes to a newer database version the activity link of the process variables are taken into account. This fixes an issue where updating processes with expanded variables could lead to wrong place assignments by the process update.

Model Migration Tool

You can download the matching version of the Umberto Model Migration Tool installer here.

Update of Models Generated with Older Umberto Versions

When opening models generated with Umberto versions older than 10.0.x the structure of the models has to be updated. Please make sure to copy your models to a local computer drive (like your Windows Documents folder) to ensure this update can be completed in a timely fashion.

Umberto Trainings

New challenges, new colleagues, or just keen on those new features? Maybe you should consider one of our Umberto trainings.

Release Notes for Umberto LCA+ 10.0.3.198

Improvements and bugfixes

Extended unlicensed test period beyond 1.2.2022

Model Migration Tool

You can download the matching version of the Umberto Model Migration Tool installer here.

Update of Models Generated with Older Umberto Versions

When opening models generated with Umberto versions older than 10.0.x the structure of the models has to be updated. Please make sure to copy your models to a local computer drive (like your Windows Documents folder) to ensure this update can be completed in a timely fashion.

Umberto Trainings

New challenges, new colleagues, or just keen on those new features? Maybe you should consider one of our Umberto trainings.

Release Notes for Umberto LCA+ 10.0.3.192

Update of ecoinvent database with aggregated impacts to ecoinvent 3.8

Known issues

The following materials have no producer in version 3.8 and therefore no GWP data is available for them in Umberto:
* venting of carbon dioxide, in chemical industry

The following materials are being produced in version 3.8 but have an inconsistent market definition which makes a GWP data calculation in Umberto impossible:
* spent oxychlor catalyst: no markets
* land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, pasture, man made: no markets
* land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, forest, intensive: no markets
* land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, annual crop: no global market
* land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, perennial crop: no global market
* land use change, paddy rice: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry 7.5-16 metric ton, unregulated: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry 16-32 metric ton, unregulated: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry 3.5-7.5 metric ton, unregulated: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry >32 metric ton, unregulated: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry 3.5-7.5 metric ton, EURO2: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry 7.5-16 metric ton, EURO2: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry >32 metric ton, EURO2: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry 16-32 metric ton, EURO2: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry 7.5-16 metric ton, EURO1: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry 16-32 metric ton, EURO1: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry >32 metric ton, EURO1: no global market
* transport, freight, lorry 3.5-7.5 metric ton, EURO1: no global market

GaBi 2021.2

Sphera provides the following change logs describing the content of their GaBi service packs:

• SP 33
• SP 34
• SP 36
• SP 37
• SP 39
• SP 40
• [2021.2] Sphera has moved the detailed information about their releases to the Sphera Customer Network (https://scn.spherasolutions.com/), login required

Upgrading models to GaBi 2021.2

• Please check and confirm the selected impact categories (see also effects on the results from below).
• When datasets from GaBi and ecoinvent database are used in the same model, please only use mapped impact categories (see “Indicators mapped between GaBi 2021.2 and Umberto” below for details).
• Please take note of update report warning: If a process was not updateable, manually replace the process with an adequate process from the 2021.2 GaBi database.
• Reduced or increased impact results are calculated, when impact factors for certain emissions or resource consumptions are updated within the impact assessment method (group).
• No results (value 0) are calculated, when the impact assessment method (group) or impact factor was renamed or restructured.

Known issues

• The allocation of the process “EnergySteam conversion (vlp) inv [technology mix] [production mix, at plant] [GLO]” (GaBi ext. DB II) must be set manually when using it in an Umberto model.
• The name and the unit of the indicator group “Unit of Ionizing radiation - Midpoint C-60 [Bq C-60 eq. to air]” have been changed by GaBi to “Unit of Ionizing radiation - Midpoint Co-60 [kBq Co-60 eq. to air]”. It is in use by the ReCiPe method.

Indicators mapped between GaBi 2021.2 and Umberto

GaBi group	GaBi indicator	GaBi unit	Umberto group/indicator	Umberto unit
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Acidification terrestrial and freshwater	Mole of H+ eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, freshwater and terrestrial acidification	mol H+-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Cancer human health effects	CTUh	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, carcinogenic effects	CTUh
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Climate Change	kg CO2 eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] climate change, climate change total	kg CO2-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Ecotoxicity freshwater	CTUe	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, freshwater ecotoxicity	CTU
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Eutrophication freshwater	kg P eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, freshwater eutrophication	kg P-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Eutrophication marine	kg N eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, marine eutrophication	kg N-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Eutrophication terrestrial	Mole of N eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, terrestrial eutrophication	mol N-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Ionising radiation - human health	kBq U235 eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, ionising radiation	kg U235-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Land Use	Pt	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] resources, land use	points
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Non-cancer human health effects	CTUh	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, non-carcinogenic effects	CTUh
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Ozone depletion	kg CFC-11 eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, ozone layer depletion	kg CFC-11-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Photochemical ozone formation - human health	kg NMVOC eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, photochemical ozone creation	kg NMVOC-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Resource use, energy carriers	MJ	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] resources, fossils	MJ
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Resource use, mineral and metals	kg Sb eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] resources, minerals and metals	kg Sb-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Respiratory inorganics	Deaths	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, respiratory effects, inorganics	disease incidence
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GWP20, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GWP 20a	kg CO2-Eq
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GWP100, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GWP 100a	kg CO2-Eq
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GTP20, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GTP 20a	kg CO2-Eq
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GTP100, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GTP 100a	kg CO2-Eq
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Pesticides into soil	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] pesticides into soil, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Radioactive waste to deposit	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] radioactive waste to deposit, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Radioactive substances into air	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] radioactive substances into air, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Energy resources	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] energy resources, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Water pollutants	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] water pollutants, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Heavy metals into soil	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] heavy metals into soil, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Mineral resources	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] mineral resources, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, POP into water	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] POP into water, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Radioactive substances into water	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] radioactive substances into water, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Carcinogenic substances into air	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] carcinogenic substances into air, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Heavy metals into air	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] heavy metals into air, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Land use	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] land use, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Heavy metals into water	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] heavy metals into water, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Main air pollutants	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] main air pollutants and PM, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Ozone layer depletion	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] ozone layer depletion, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Non radioactive waste to deposit	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] non radioactive waste to deposit, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Global warming, incl Land Use Change	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] global warming, total	UBP

Model Migration Tool

You can download the matching version of the Umberto Model Migration Tool installer here.

Update of Models Generated with Older Umberto Versions

When opening models generated with Umberto versions older than 10.0.x the structure of the models has to be updated. Please make sure to copy your models to a local computer drive (like your Windows Documents folder) to ensure this update can be completed in a timely fashion.

Release Notes for Umberto LCA+ 10.0.3.190

Improvements and bugfixes

• The update of ecoinvent processes to version 3.7.1 failed in certain settings.

Model Migration Tool

You can download the matching version of the Umberto Model Migration Tool installer here.

Update of Models Generated with Older Umberto Versions

When opening models generated with Umberto versions older than 10.0.x the structure of the models has to be updated. Please make sure to copy your models to a local computer drive (like your Windows Documents folder) to ensure this update can be completed in a timely fashion.

Umberto Trainings

New challenges, new colleagues, or just keen on those new features? Maybe you should consider one of our Umberto trainings.

Release Notes for Umberto LCA+ 10.0.3.185

Update of ecoinvent database with aggregated impacts to ecoinvent 3.7.1

Known issues

The following materials have no producer in version 3.7.1 and therefore no aggregated impacts are available for them in Umberto: aircraft, belly freight, unspecified distance, aircraft, dedicated freight, unspecified distance, aircraft, long haul, aircraft, medium haul, aircraft, passenger, unspecified distance, blueberry, building operation, budget hotel (BR), building operation, hostel (BR), building operation, luxury hotel (BR), building, budget hotel (BR), building, hostel (BR), building, luxury hotel (BR), cassava, cement, blast furnace slag 36-65, non-US, cement, pozzolana 36-55, citrus lime, compacting, textile, containerboard, unspecified, copper, blister-copper, copper, cathode (to be deleted), copper, from solvent-extraction electro-winning, cranberry, dust, alloyed electric arc furnace steel, electricity, nuclear, boiling water reactor, production mix, electricity, nuclear, pressure water reactor, production mix, energy use and combustion emissions, lorry 20-28 metric ton, empty, fleet average, epoxy resin, folding boxboard/chipboard, freight ship, transoceanic, ginger, glued laminated timber, for outdoor use, guar, heavy fuel oil, burned in industrial furnace 1MW, kraft paper, bleached, kraft paper, unbleached, lentil, maintenance, freight ship, transoceanic, methane, 96 by volume, from biogas, high pressure, at user, mulberry, nitrate salts, from solar power application, paper ash, particleboard, for indoor use, particleboard, for outdoor use, plywood, for indoor use, plywood, for outdoor use, polishing powder, pulpwood, dry, rare earth hydroxide concentrate, raspberry, rice, roundwood, azobe from sustainable forest management, debarked, roundwood, meranti from sustainable forest management, debarked, rug, sawlog and veneer log, hardwood, debarked, measured as solid wood, sawnwood, hardwood, raw, debarked, sawnwood, softwood, raw, debarked, shavings, measured as dry mass, solid bleached board, solid unbleached board, spinning, bast fibre, sulfate pulp, sulfate pulp, unbleached, from eucalyptus ssp. from sustainable forest management, TH, sulfidic tailing, off-site, tall oil, refined, tanker, transoceanic, three layered laminated board, transport, freight, aircraft, unspecified distance, transport, freight, sea, liquefied natural gas, transport, freight, sea, transoceanic ship, transport, freight, sea, transoceanic tanker, transport, passengers, aircraft, unspecified distance, turmeric, venting, from carbon dioxide in chemical industry, waste paint, collection for hazardous waste incineration, wastewater, bleaching and dyeing, weaving, bast fibre.

The following materials are being produced in version 3.7.1 but have an inconsistent market definition which makes an aggregated impacts calculation in Umberto impossible:

• spent oxychlor catalyst: no markets
• land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, pasture, man made: no markets
• land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, forest, intensive: no markets
• land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, annual crop: no global market
• land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, perennial crop: no global market
• land use change, paddy rice: no global market

Model Migration Tool

You can download the matching version of the Umberto Model Migration Tool installer here.

Update of Models Generated with Older Umberto Versions

When opening models generated with Umberto versions older than 10.0.x the structure of the models has to be updated. Please make sure to copy your models to a local computer drive (like your Windows Documents folder) to ensure this update can be completed in a timely fashion.

Umberto Trainings

New challenges, new colleagues, or just keen on those new features? Maybe you should consider one of our Umberto trainings.

Release Notes for Umberto LCA+ 10.0.3.178

Improvements and bugfixes

Display issues on computers with high resolution monitors and/or high DPI scaling have been fixed.

Update of ecoinvent database with aggregated impacts to ecoinvent 3.7

Known issues

The following materials have no producer in version 3.7 and therefore no aggregated impacts are available for them in Umberto: aircraft, belly freight, unspecified distance, aircraft, dedicated freight, unspecified distance, aircraft, long haul, aircraft, medium haul, aircraft, passenger, unspecified distance, blueberry, building operation, budget hotel (BR), building operation, hostel (BR), building operation, luxury hotel (BR), building, budget hotel (BR), building, hostel (BR), building, luxury hotel (BR), cassava, cement, blast furnace slag 36-65, non-US, cement, pozzolana 36-55, citrus lime, compacting, textile, containerboard, unspecified, copper, blister-copper, copper, cathode (to be deleted), copper, from solvent-extraction electro-winning, cranberry, dust, alloyed electric arc furnace steel, electricity, nuclear, boiling water reactor, production mix, electricity, nuclear, pressure water reactor, production mix, energy use and combustion emissions, lorry 20-28 metric ton, empty, fleet average, epoxy resin, folding boxboard/chipboard, freight ship, transoceanic, ginger, glued laminated timber, for outdoor use, guar, heavy fuel oil, burned in industrial furnace 1MW, kraft paper, bleached, kraft paper, unbleached, lentil, maintenance, freight ship, transoceanic, methane, 96 by volume, from biogas, high pressure, at user, mulberry, nitrate salts, from solar power application, paper ash, particleboard, for indoor use, particleboard, for outdoor use, plywood, for indoor use, plywood, for outdoor use, polishing powder, pulpwood, dry, rare earth hydroxide concentrate, raspberry, rice, roundwood, azobe from sustainable forest management, debarked, roundwood, meranti from sustainable forest management, debarked, rug, sawlog and veneer log, hardwood, debarked, measured as solid wood, sawnwood, hardwood, raw, debarked, sawnwood, softwood, raw, debarked, shavings, measured as dry mass, solid bleached board, solid unbleached board, spinning, bast fibre, sulfate pulp, sulfate pulp, unbleached, from eucalyptus ssp. from sustainable forest management, TH, sulfidic tailing, off-site, tall oil, refined, tanker, transoceanic, three layered laminated board, transport, freight, aircraft, unspecified distance, transport, freight, sea, liquefied natural gas, transport, freight, sea, transoceanic ship, transport, freight, sea, transoceanic tanker, transport, passengers, aircraft, unspecified distance, turmeric, venting, from carbon dioxide in chemical industry, waste paint, collection for hazardous waste incineration, wastewater, bleaching and dyeing, weaving, bast fibre.

The following materials are being produced in version 3.7 but have an inconsistent market definition which makes an aggregated impacts calculation in Umberto impossible:

• spent oxychlor catalyst: no markets
• land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, pasture, man made: no markets
• land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, forest, intensive: no markets
• land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, annual crop: no global market
• land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, perennial crop: no global market
• land use change, paddy rice: no global market

GaBi 2020 SP 40

Thinkstep provides the following change logs describing the content of their GaBi service packs:

• SP 33
• SP 34
• SP 36
• SP 37
• SP 39
• SP 40

Upgrading models to GaBi 2020 SP40

• Please check and confirm the selected impact categories (see also effects on the results from below).
• When datasets from gabi and ecoinvent database are used in the same model, please only use mapped impact categories (see “Indicators mapped between GaBi 2020 SP40 and Umberto” below for details).
• Please take note of update report warning: If a process was not updateable, manually replace the process with an adequate process from the 2020 SP40 gabi database.
• Reduced or increased impact results are calculated, when impact factors for certain emissions or resource consumptions are updated within the impact assessment method (group).
• No results (value 0) are calculated, when the impact assessment method (group) or impact factor was renamed or restructured.

Known issues

• The allocation of the process “EnergySteam conversion (vlp) inv [technology mix] [production mix, at plant] [GLO]” (GaBi ext. DB II) must be set manually when using it in an Umberto model.
• The name and the unit of the indicator group “Unit of Ionizing radiation - Midpoint C-60 [Bq C-60 eq. to air]” have been changed by GaBi to “Unit of Ionizing radiation - Midpoint Co-60 [kBq Co-60 eq. to air]”. It is in use by the ReCiPe method.

Indicators mapped between GaBi 2020 SP40 and Umberto

GaBi group	GaBi indicator	GaBi unit	Umberto group/indicator	Umberto unit
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Acidification terrestrial and freshwater	Mole of H+ eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, freshwater and terrestrial acidification	mol H+-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Cancer human health effects	CTUh	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, carcinogenic effects	CTUh
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Climate Change	kg CO2 eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] climate change, climate change total	kg CO2-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Ecotoxicity freshwater	CTUe	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, freshwater ecotoxicity	CTU
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Eutrophication freshwater	kg P eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, freshwater eutrophication	kg P-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Eutrophication marine	kg N eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, marine eutrophication	kg N-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Eutrophication terrestrial	Mole of N eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, terrestrial eutrophication	mol N-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Ionising radiation - human health	kBq U235 eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, ionising radiation	kg U235-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Land Use	Pt	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] resources, land use	points
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Non-cancer human health effects	CTUh	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, non-carcinogenic effects	CTUh
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Ozone depletion	kg CFC-11 eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, ozone layer depletion	kg CFC-11-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Photochemical ozone formation - human health	kg NMVOC eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, photochemical ozone creation	kg NMVOC-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Resource use, energy carriers	MJ	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] resources, fossils	MJ
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Resource use, mineral and metals	kg Sb eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] resources, minerals and metals	kg Sb-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Respiratory inorganics	Deaths	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, respiratory effects, inorganics	disease incidence
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GWP20, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GWP 20a	kg CO2-Eq
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GWP100, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GWP 100a	kg CO2-Eq
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GTP20, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GTP 20a	kg CO2-Eq
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GTP100, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GTP 100a	kg CO2-Eq
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Pesticides into soil	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] pesticides into soil, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Radioactive waste to deposit	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] radioactive waste to deposit, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Radioactive substances into air	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] radioactive substances into air, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Energy resources	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] energy resources, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Water pollutants	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] water pollutants, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Heavy metals into soil	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] heavy metals into soil, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Mineral resources	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] mineral resources, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, POP into water	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] POP into water, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Radioactive substances into water	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] radioactive substances into water, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Carcinogenic substances into air	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] carcinogenic substances into air, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Heavy metals into air	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] heavy metals into air, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Land use	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] land use, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Heavy metals into water	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] heavy metals into water, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Main air pollutants	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] main air pollutants and PM, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Ozone layer depletion	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] ozone layer depletion, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Non radioactive waste to deposit	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] non radioactive waste to deposit, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Global warming, incl Land Use Change	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] global warming, total	UBP

Model Migration Tool

You can download the matching version of the Umberto Model Migration Tool installer here.

Umberto Trainings

New challenges, new colleagues, or just keen on those new features? Maybe you should consider one of our Umberto trainings.

Release Notes for Umberto LCA+ 10.0.3.178

Update of ecoinvent database with aggregated impacts to ecoinvent 3.7

Known issues

The following materials have no producer in version 3.7 and therefore no aggregated impacts are available for them in Umberto: aircraft, belly freight, unspecified distance, aircraft, dedicated freight, unspecified distance, aircraft, long haul, aircraft, medium haul, aircraft, passenger, unspecified distance, blueberry, building operation, budget hotel (BR), building operation, hostel (BR), building operation, luxury hotel (BR), building, budget hotel (BR), building, hostel (BR), building, luxury hotel (BR), cassava, cement, blast furnace slag 36-65, non-US, cement, pozzolana 36-55, citrus lime, compacting, textile, containerboard, unspecified, copper, blister-copper, copper, cathode (to be deleted), copper, from solvent-extraction electro-winning, cranberry, dust, alloyed electric arc furnace steel, electricity, nuclear, boiling water reactor, production mix, electricity, nuclear, pressure water reactor, production mix, energy use and combustion emissions, lorry 20-28 metric ton, empty, fleet average, epoxy resin, folding boxboard/chipboard, freight ship, transoceanic, ginger, glued laminated timber, for outdoor use, guar, heavy fuel oil, burned in industrial furnace 1MW, kraft paper, bleached, kraft paper, unbleached, lentil, maintenance, freight ship, transoceanic, methane, 96 by volume, from biogas, high pressure, at user, mulberry, nitrate salts, from solar power application, paper ash, particleboard, for indoor use, particleboard, for outdoor use, plywood, for indoor use, plywood, for outdoor use, polishing powder, pulpwood, dry, rare earth hydroxide concentrate, raspberry, rice, roundwood, azobe from sustainable forest management, debarked, roundwood, meranti from sustainable forest management, debarked, rug, sawlog and veneer log, hardwood, debarked, measured as solid wood, sawnwood, hardwood, raw, debarked, sawnwood, softwood, raw, debarked, shavings, measured as dry mass, solid bleached board, solid unbleached board, spinning, bast fibre, sulfate pulp, sulfate pulp, unbleached, from eucalyptus ssp. from sustainable forest management, TH, sulfidic tailing, off-site, tall oil, refined, tanker, transoceanic, three layered laminated board, transport, freight, aircraft, unspecified distance, transport, freight, sea, liquefied natural gas, transport, freight, sea, transoceanic ship, transport, freight, sea, transoceanic tanker, transport, passengers, aircraft, unspecified distance, turmeric, venting, from carbon dioxide in chemical industry, waste paint, collection for hazardous waste incineration, wastewater, bleaching and dyeing, weaving, bast fibre.

The following materials are being produced in version 3.7 but have an inconsistent market definition which makes an aggregated impacts calculation in Umberto impossible:

• spent oxychlor catalyst: no markets
• land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, pasture, man made: no markets
• land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, forest, intensive: no markets
• land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, annual crop: no global market
• land tenure, arable land, measured as carbon net primary productivity, perennial crop: no global market
• land use change, paddy rice: no global market

GaBi 2020 SP 40

Thinkstep provides the following change logs describing the content of their GaBi service packs:

• SP 33
• SP 34
• SP 36
• SP 37
• SP 39
• SP 40

Upgrading models to GaBi 2020 SP40

• Please check and confirm the selected impact categories (see also effects on the results from below).
• When datasets from gabi and ecoinvent database are used in the same model, please only use mapped impact categories (see “Indicators mapped between GaBi 2020 SP40 and Umberto” below for details).
• Please take note of update report warning: If a process was not updateable, manually replace the process with an adequate process from the 2020 SP40 gabi database.
• Reduced or increased impact results are calculated, when impact factors for certain emissions or resource consumptions are updated within the impact assessment method (group).
• No results (value 0) are calculated, when the impact assessment method (group) or impact factor was renamed or restructured.

Known issues

• The allocation of the process “EnergySteam conversion (vlp) inv [technology mix] [production mix, at plant] [GLO]” (GaBi ext. DB II) must be set manually when using it in an Umberto model.
• The name and the unit of the indicator group “Unit of Ionizing radiation - Midpoint C-60 [Bq C-60 eq. to air]” have been changed by GaBi to “Unit of Ionizing radiation - Midpoint Co-60 [kBq Co-60 eq. to air]”. It is in use by the ReCiPe method.

Indicators mapped between GaBi 2020 SP40 and Umberto

GaBi group	GaBi indicator	GaBi unit	Umberto group/indicator	Umberto unit
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Acidification terrestrial and freshwater	Mole of H+ eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, freshwater and terrestrial acidification	mol H+-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Cancer human health effects	CTUh	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, carcinogenic effects	CTUh
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Climate Change	kg CO2 eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] climate change, climate change total	kg CO2-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Ecotoxicity freshwater	CTUe	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, freshwater ecotoxicity	CTU
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Eutrophication freshwater	kg P eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, freshwater eutrophication	kg P-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Eutrophication marine	kg N eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, marine eutrophication	kg N-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Eutrophication terrestrial	Mole of N eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, terrestrial eutrophication	mol N-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Ionising radiation - human health	kBq U235 eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, ionising radiation	kg U235-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Land Use	Pt	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] resources, land use	points
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Non-cancer human health effects	CTUh	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, non-carcinogenic effects	CTUh
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Ozone depletion	kg CFC-11 eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, ozone layer depletion	kg CFC-11-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Photochemical ozone formation - human health	kg NMVOC eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, photochemical ozone creation	kg NMVOC-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Resource use, energy carriers	MJ	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] resources, fossils	MJ
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Resource use, mineral and metals	kg Sb eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] resources, minerals and metals	kg Sb-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Respiratory inorganics	Deaths	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, respiratory effects, inorganics	disease incidence
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GWP20, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GWP 20a	kg CO2-Eq
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GWP100, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GWP 100a	kg CO2-Eq
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GTP20, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GTP 20a	kg CO2-Eq
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GTP100, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GTP 100a	kg CO2-Eq
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Pesticides into soil	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] pesticides into soil, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Radioactive waste to deposit	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] radioactive waste to deposit, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Radioactive substances into air	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] radioactive substances into air, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Energy resources	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] energy resources, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Water pollutants	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] water pollutants, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Heavy metals into soil	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] heavy metals into soil, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Mineral resources	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] mineral resources, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, POP into water	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] POP into water, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Radioactive substances into water	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] radioactive substances into water, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Carcinogenic substances into air	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] carcinogenic substances into air, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Heavy metals into air	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] heavy metals into air, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Land use	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] land use, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Heavy metals into water	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] heavy metals into water, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Main air pollutants	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] main air pollutants and PM, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Ozone layer depletion	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] ozone layer depletion, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Non radioactive waste to deposit	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] non radioactive waste to deposit, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Global warming, incl Land Use Change	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] global warming, total	UBP

Model Migration Tool

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Release Notes for Umberto LCA+ 10.0.3.169

GaBi SP 39

This is a bugfix release for the project update feature. It only concerns users who used result processes from the first release of GaBI SP39 (10.0.3.163, released end of August 2019) in their models. Models containing calculated flows could be rendered invalid by the project update in Umberto LCA+ v10.0.3.165. In such a case please upgrade the backup file generated by Umberto using this version.

Model Migration Tool

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Release Notes for Umberto LCA+ 10.0.3.165

Update of ecoinvent database with aggregated impacts to ecoinvent 3.6

GaBi SP 39

This is an update release for GaBi SP 39 previously released for Umberto LCA+ 10.0.3.165. The following changes were made compared to the previous version:
* you can now upgrade of materials and processes in models using previous releases of the GaBi eiIntegrated database.
* updated impact indicator mapping to ecoinvent v3.6 indicators.
* fixed impact indicator mapping for “EF 2.0 Climate Change”, it now uses “climate change, climate change fossil” instead of “…total”.
* added impact indicator mapping for “UBP 2013”.

Thinkstep provides the following change logs describing the content of their GaBi service packs:
* SP 33
* SP 34
* SP 36
* SP 37
* SP 39

Upgrading models to GaBi SP39

• Please check and confirm the selected impact categories (see also effects on the results from below).
• When datasets from gabi and ecoinvent database are used in the same model, please only use mapped impact categories (see “Indicators mapped between GaBi SP39 and Umberto” below for details).
• Please take note of update report warning: If a process was not updateable, please manually replace the process with an adequate process from the SP39 gabi database.
• Reduced or increased impact results are calculated, when impact factors for certain emissions or resource consumptions are updated within the impact assessment method (group).
• No results (value 0) are calculated, when the impact assessment method (group) or impact factor was renamed or restructured.

Indicators mapped between GaBi SP39 and Umberto

GABI group	GABI property	GABI unit	Assigned Umberto group/property	Umberto Unit
CML 2001 - Jan. 2016	CML2001 - Jan. 2016, Acidification Potential (AP)	kg SO2 eq.	[CML 2001 w/o LT (obsolete)] acidification potential w/o LT, generic w/o LT	kg SO2-Eq
CML 2001 - Jan. 2016	CML2001 - Jan. 2016, Eutrophication Potential (EP)	kg Phosphate eq.	[CML 2001 w/o LT (obsolete)] eutrophication potential w/o LT, generic w/o LT	kg PO4-Eq
CML 2001 - Jan. 2016	CML2001 - Jan. 2016, Freshwater Aquatic Ecotoxicity Pot. (FAETP inf.)	kg DCB eq.	[CML 2001 w/o LT (obsolete)] freshwater aquatic ecotoxicity w/o LT, FAETP infinite w/o LT	kg 1,4-DCB-Eq
CML 2001 - Jan. 2016	CML2001 - Jan. 2016, Global Warming Potential (GWP 100 years), excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[CML 2001 w/o LT (obsolete)] climate change w/o LT, GWP 100a w/o LT	kg CO2-Eq
CML 2001 - Jan. 2016	CML2001 - Jan. 2016, Human Toxicity Potential (HTP inf.)	kg DCB eq.	[CML 2001 w/o LT (obsolete)] human toxicity w/o LT, HTP infinite w/o LT	kg 1,4-DCB-Eq
CML 2001 - Jan. 2016	CML2001 - Jan. 2016, Marine Aquatic Ecotoxicity Pot. (MAETP inf.)	kg DCB eq.	[CML 2001 w/o LT (obsolete)] marine aquatic ecotoxicity w/o LT, MAETP infinite w/o LT	kg 1,4-DCB-Eq
CML 2001 - Jan. 2016	CML2001 - Jan. 2016, Ozone Layer Depletion Potential (ODP, steady state)	kg R11 eq.	[CML 2001 w/o LT (obsolete)] stratospheric ozone depletion w/o LT, ODP steady state w/o LT	kg CFC-11-Eq
CML 2001 - Jan. 2016	CML2001 - Jan. 2016, Photochem. Ozone Creation Potential (POCP)	kg Ethene eq.	[CML 2001 w/o LT (obsolete)] photochemical oxidation w/o LT, high NOx POCP w/o LT	kg ethylene-Eq
CML 2001 - Jan. 2016	CML2001 - Jan. 2016, Terrestric Ecotoxicity Potential (TETP inf.)	kg DCB eq.	[CML 2001 w/o LT (obsolete)] terrestrial ecotoxicity w/o LT, TAETP infinite w/o LT	kg 1,4-DCB-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Acidification terrestrial and freshwater	Mole of H+ eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, freshwater and terrestrial acidification	mol H+-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Cancer human health effects	CTUh	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, carcinogenic effects	CTUh
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Climate Change	kg CO2 eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] climate change, climate change fossil	kg CO2-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Ecotoxicity freshwater	CTUe	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, freshwater ecotoxicity	CTU
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Eutrophication freshwater	kg P eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, freshwater eutrophication	kg P-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Eutrophication marine	kg N eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, marine eutrophication	kg N-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Eutrophication terrestrial	Mole of N eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, terrestrial eutrophication	mol N-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Ionising radiation - human health	kBq U235 eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, ionising radiation	kg U235-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Land Use	Pt	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] resources, land use	points
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Non-cancer human health effects	CTUh	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, non-carcinogenic effects	CTUh
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Ozone depletion	kg CFC-11 eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, ozone layer depletion	kg CFC-11-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Photochemical ozone formation - human health	kg NMVOC eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, photochemical ozone creation	kg NMVOC-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Resource use, energy carriers	MJ	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] resources, fossils	MJ
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Resource use, mineral and metals	kg Sb eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] resources, minerals and metals	kg Sb-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Respiratory inorganics	Deaths	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, respiratory effects, inorganics	disease incidence
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GWP20, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GWP 20a	kg CO2-Eq
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GWP100, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GWP 100a	kg CO2-Eq
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GTP20, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GTP 20a	kg CO2-Eq
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GTP100, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GTP 100a	kg CO2-Eq
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Pesticides into soil	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] pesticides into soil, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Radioactive waste to deposit	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] radioactive waste to deposit, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Radioactive substances into air	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] radioactive substances into air, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Energy resources	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] energy resources, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Water pollutants	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] water pollutants, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Heavy metals into soil	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] heavy metals into soil, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Mineral resources	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] mineral resources, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, POP into water	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] POP into water, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Radioactive substances into water	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] radioactive substances into water, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Carcinogenic substances into air	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] carcinogenic substances into air, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Heavy metals into air	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] heavy metals into air, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Land use	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] land use, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Heavy metals into water	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] heavy metals into water, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Main air pollutants	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] main air pollutants and PM, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Ozone layer depletion	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] ozone layer depletion, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Non radioactive waste to deposit	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] non radioactive waste to deposit, total	UBP
UBP 2013	UBP 2013, Global warming, incl Land Use Change	UBP	[ecological scarcity 2013 no LT] global warming, total	UBP

Model Migration Tool

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Release Notes for Umberto LCA+ 10.0.3.163

Export and Import of project materials and cost types

This new feature exports and imports project materials and cost types in Umberto. You can access it via the menu 'File -> Export project materials and cost types...' or 'File -> Import project materials and cost types...'.

Export

The export generates an Excel file with worksheets for material groups, project materials, cost type groups and cost types. It also generates a worksheet with an introduction and a list of units of measure.

The worksheet ‘Introduction’ contains a list of available units and can be used as a reference when you add new materials. Note: This worksheet is for informational purposes only. It is not allowed to add user defined units or change the existing units. Any changes in this worksheet will be ignored during import.

The worksheet ‘Material Groups’ lists material groups with information about their hierarchy and group type. Please find the list of valid group type values below: * RawMaterials * Emissions * Energy * Intermediates * Products * MaterialLoss * UnavoidableWaste * Other

The worksheet ‘Cost Type Groups’ contains the same information for cost type groups. Valid group types are: * EnergyCost * SystemCost * WasteManagementCost * Other

The worksheet ‘Project Materials’ lists user defined project materials, i.e. no master data materials like ecoinvent exchanges. In addition to information about the containing group, unit of measure, and material type (Good, Bad, Neutral), it also contains information about the functional unit, if any.

The worksheet ‘Cost Types’ is similar to the worksheet ‘Project Materials’, with the exception that it does not allow for the definition of functional units.

Import

During import, the data read from the worksheets ‘Material Groups’, ‘Project Materials’, ‘Cost Type Groups’ and ‘Cost Types’ will be compared with the data present in Umberto. Please keep in mind that the import does not modify existing entries. It will only add new data.

Existing entries are looked up by UUIDs. If the UUID column is empty, entries are looked up by name. Additional checks by name are performed for materials of the same material group to make sure no two materials exists with the same name. The same applies to groups of the same name with different UUIDs.

When you want to manually add materials or material groups, you do not have to specify UUIDs, but it might be helpful when working with groups with identical names but different parent groups. On the Internet you will find convenient support. Just search for ‘generate UUID’.

Export and Import of assessment factors

This new feature exports and imports assessment factors, such as market price or GWP, in Umberto. You can access it via the menu 'File -> Export assessment factors...' or 'File -> Import assessment factors...'.

Export

During export, an Excel file with materials and their assessment factors is generated. You can choose to export all or only the assessment factors that have been activated.

Optionally, master data materials (e.g., ecoinvent) with their assessment factors can be exported, too.

In the generated Excel file, the assessment factors can now be adjusted in order to subsequently import them. You should not make any other changes in the Excel file, such as the renaming of materials. Otherwise, an import can no longer be performed. Also, tables should not be moved and worksheets should not be renamed.

The Excel file contains several worksheets, starting with ‘Assessment methods’ showing a list of all exported assessment methods.

The worksheet 'Project Materials' lists all the materials used in the project, both self-created materials and master data materials. In addition, the stored assessment factors per material are listed.

If the ‘Export materials from enabled master data libraries’ option has been activated, a worksheet is also created for each master database in which all the materials are listed with the associated assessment factors.

User-defined assessment factors

During import, user-defined assessment factors are imported first. Initially this searches by UUID for existing assessment factors. If this is unsuccessful, the system searches for name, group name and unit name. If this too is not successful, the assessment factor is created and activated.

This is how to create assessment factors manually:

• Open LCIA factors via menu 'Tools -> LCIA factors'

  

• Add a new group / method.

  

• Rename the indicator and add as many new indicators as required. Do not forget to select an unit.

  

Import

Now you can import the assessment factors from the file generated before.

If you do not want to import assessment factors for master data materials, unselect the checkbox. In this case only the assessment factors from the worksheet 'Project Materials' will be imported. However, assessment factors for master data materials listed in this worksheet are always imported.

Note: - If assessment factors for master data materials are adjusted, the corresponding materials are copied to the project, if they do not already exist. - For master data materials, only the market price and user-defined assessment methods can be adjusted, changes to predefined assessment methods are ignored.

Scenario Calculation

Improved ease of access and usability of the Scenario Calculation tool. The following extensions and corrections have been made:

• Now supports up to 500 parameters
• Added explanatory comments for named Excel regions, accessible via the Namesmanager
• Scenario Number Range is no longer restricted to numbers and now allows for text, allowing the user to use more explanatory scenario identifiers
• Result Excel file is now locked during the scenario calculation preventing issues caused by concurrent editing

• More configuration possibilities via dialog

  

GaBi SP 39

Thinkstep provides the following change logs describing the content of their GaBi service packs: * SP 33 * SP 34 * SP 36 * SP 37 * SP 39

Upgrading models to GaBi SP39

• Please check and confirm the selected impact categories (see also effects on the results from below).
• When datasets from gabi and ecoinvent database are used in the same model, please only use mapped impact categories (see “Indicators mapped between GaBi SP39 and Umberto” below for details).
• Please take note of update report warning: If a process was not updateable, please manually replace the process with an adequate process from the SP39 gabi database.
• Reduced or increased impact results are calculated, when impact factors for certain emissions or resource consumptions are updated within the impact assessment method (group).
• No results (value 0) are calculated, when the impact assessment method (group) or impact factor was renamed or restructured.

Indicators mapped between GaBi SP39 and Umberto

GABI group	GABI property	GABI unit	Assigned Umberto group/property	Umberto Unit
CML 2001 - Jan. 2016	CML2001 - Jan. 2016, Acidification Potential (AP)	kg SO2 eq.	[CML 2001 w/o LT] acidification potential w/o LT, generic w/o LT	kg SO2-Eq
CML 2001 - Jan. 2016	CML2001 - Jan. 2016, Eutrophication Potential (EP)	kg Phosphate eq.	[CML 2001 w/o LT] eutrophication potential w/o LT, generic w/o LT	kg PO4-Eq
CML 2001 - Jan. 2016	CML2001 - Jan. 2016, Freshwater Aquatic Ecotoxicity Pot. (FAETP inf.)	kg DCB eq.	[CML 2001 w/o LT] freshwater aquatic ecotoxicity w/o LT, FAETP infinite w/o LT	kg 1,4-DCB-Eq
CML 2001 - Jan. 2016	CML2001 - Jan. 2016, Global Warming Potential (GWP 100 years), excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[CML 2001 w/o LT] climate change w/o LT, GWP 100a w/o LT	kg CO2-Eq
CML 2001 - Jan. 2016	CML2001 - Jan. 2016, Human Toxicity Potential (HTP inf.)	kg DCB eq.	[CML 2001 w/o LT] human toxicity w/o LT, HTP infinite w/o LT	kg 1,4-DCB-Eq
CML 2001 - Jan. 2016	CML2001 - Jan. 2016, Marine Aquatic Ecotoxicity Pot. (MAETP inf.)	kg DCB eq.	[CML 2001 w/o LT] marine aquatic ecotoxicity w/o LT, MAETP infinite w/o LT	kg 1,4-DCB-Eq
CML 2001 - Jan. 2016	CML2001 - Jan. 2016, Ozone Layer Depletion Potential (ODP, steady state)	kg R11 eq.	[CML 2001 w/o LT] stratospheric ozone depletion w/o LT, ODP steady state w/o LT	kg CFC-11-Eq
CML 2001 - Jan. 2016	CML2001 - Jan. 2016, Photochem. Ozone Creation Potential (POCP)	kg Ethene eq.	[CML 2001 w/o LT] photochemical oxidation w/o LT, high NOx POCP w/o LT	kg ethylene-Eq
CML 2001 - Jan. 2016	CML2001 - Jan. 2016, Terrestric Ecotoxicity Potential (TETP inf.)	kg DCB eq.	[CML 2001 w/o LT] terrestrial ecotoxicity w/o LT, TAETP infinite w/o LT	kg 1,4-DCB-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Acidification terrestrial and freshwater	Mole of H+ eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, freshwater and terrestrial acidification	mol H+-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Cancer human health effects	CTUh	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, carcinogenic effects	CTUh
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Climate Change	kg CO2 eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] climate change, climate change total	kg CO2-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Ecotoxicity freshwater	CTUe	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, freshwater ecotoxicity	CTU
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Eutrophication freshwater	kg P eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, freshwater eutrophication	kg P-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Eutrophication marine	kg N eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, marine eutrophication	kg N-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Eutrophication terrestrial	Mole of N eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] ecosystem quality, terrestrial eutrophication	mol N-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Ionising radiation - human health	kBq U235 eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, ionising radiation	kg U235-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Land Use	Pt	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] resources, land use	points
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Non-cancer human health effects	CTUh	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, non-carcinogenic effects	CTUh
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Ozone depletion	kg CFC-11 eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, ozone layer depletion	kg CFC-11-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Photochemical ozone formation - human health	kg NMVOC eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, photochemical ozone creation	kg NMVOC-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Resource use, energy carriers	MJ	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] resources, fossils	MJ
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Resource use, mineral and metals	kg Sb eq.	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] resources, minerals and metals	kg Sb-Eq
EF 2.0 (Environmental Footprint 2.0)	EF 2.0 Respiratory inorganics	Deaths	[ILCD 2.0 2018 midpoint no LT] human health, respiratory effects, inorganics	disease incidence
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GWP20, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GWP 20a	kg CO2-Eq
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GWP100, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GWP 100a	kg CO2-Eq
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GTP20, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GTP 20a	kg CO2-Eq
Excl biogenic carbon	IPCC AR5 GTP100, excl biogenic carbon	kg CO2 eq.	[IPCC 2013] climate change, GTP 100a	kg CO2-Eq

Improvements and bugfixes, e.g.

• When dropping ecoinvent processes into a model their time period of the process is stored in the process description
• Fixed display issue in LCIA sankey mode for user defined material properties
• Fixed issue of missing products in cost related result views
• The currently selected calculation result view is restored after a calculation
• More MFCA related result exports
• Fixed MFCA matrix, results may have been wrong when model contains treatment processes and loops
• Added 2 empty processes to the Gallery with specific calculation options enabled. Their names show which Umberto5 calculation option has been enabled for them. The 2 processes can be found in the folder “Special Calculation”.
• The user selection when dropping processes from libraries or when Expanding process inputs are now stored per user. Upon opening this dialog the first entry matching this selection (system model and type (linked/result)) is applied again.

Model Migration Tool

You can download the matching version of the Umberto Model Migration Tool installer here.

Umberto Trainings

New challenges, new colleagues, or just keen on those new features? Maybe you should consider one of our Umberto trainings.

Release Notes for Umberto LCA+ 10.0.3.160

Scenario Calculation

• You can now calculate multiple scenarios at once using menu ‘Calculation -> Calculate Excel Scenarios’. The scenarios are managed using Microsoft Excel and Umberto Live Links. Currently only LCIA Raw Data are exported.
• An example excel file with documentation (ScenarioAnalysis.xlsx) can be found in your LCA+ documents folder after the first start of Umberto.
• A step-by-step guide is also available for download as PDF ScenarioAnalysis PDF

Update of ecoinvent database with aggregated impacts to ecoinvent 3.5

Improvements and bugfixes, e.g.

• Performance improvements: MFCA results, LCI(A) Sankeys
• Remedy error preventing Live links to be created in the german version of Umberto
• When copying a whole model via context menu ‘Copy Model’ the description of the model is copied as well
• Calculation log can be sorted by severity
• Fixed error when importing color sets

Model Migration Tool

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Release Notes for Umberto LCA+ 10.0.3.146

Minor bugfixes

• Included further non-MFCA related tutorials

Model Migration Tool

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Release Notes for Umberto LCA+ 10.0.3.142

Improvements and bugfixes, e.g.

• Fixed cell format of MFCA results exported to Excel

• When using ‘Print Net’ to print a non-Sankey net, it will now print all arrows regardless of their Sankey settings

Model Migration Tool

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Release Notes for Umberto LCA+ 10.0.3.141

Improvements and bugfixes, e.g.

• Installer preserves user file rights of migrated Umberto licenses.

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Release Notes for Umberto LCA+ 10.0.3.136

• Minor Bugfixes

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Release Notes for Umberto LCA+ 10.0.3.132

Umberto LCA+ is the successor product for Umberto NXT LCA and Umberto NXT Universal and combines the functionality of the former products and adds many new features.

Major Changes

• The updated ecoinvent 3.4 database is now available!
• MFCA: Material Flow Cost Accounting is an instrument to identify and calculate the real cost of waste and material losses. It can be an important element in tackling corporate resource efficiency.
• GroupType for MaterialGroups: The GroupType predefines the MaterialType of contained materials and is used by the MFCA calculation to classify materials.
  
• Carbon Footprint: CO2-Results with Summary, Details and Chart, and additionally a MFCA GWP Matrix. You can select the assessment method used for Carbon Footprint result views via menu “Tools->Options”.
  
• Live Links for Market Prices: You can now Add live links for the market price of materials in the property editor of a material.
  
• Process Dependencies: The specification of nets now contains an additional tab for “Process Dependencies” which can be used to enforce the calculation order of selected processes and subnets.
  
• German user interface: You can now change the language settings via menu “Tools->Options”. This setting has effect on all texts as well as number formats, eg. ‘.’ vs. ‘,’ as decimal separator (except functions/formulas and scripts).
• Combined Material Flow and Cost Raw Data Export for results.

Model Migration Tool

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