Personal Details

DI Bernd Brandt

Senior Lecturer

bernd.brandt@hcw.ac.at
+43 1 606 68 77-3567

Room: F.2.22
Favoritenstraße 222
1100 Wien

Study programs

Bachelor

Sustainable Management of Resources

part-time

Master

Sustainability Assessment and Resource Management

part-time

Master

Bioprocess Engineering

part-time

Bachelor

Sustainable Packaging Technology

part-time

Master

Sustainable Packaging Design and Technology

part-time

Departments
Applied Life Sciences

Publications

Our publications database contains the scientific papers and theses supervised by DI Bernd Brandt at Hochschule Campus Wien

Lectures

Lebenszyklusanalyse ILV

Lebenszyklusanalyse ILV | WS2026/27

Content

- Life Cycle Assessment- Grundlagen – from cradle to grave

- LCA-assessment (from cradle to grave) - Grundlagen- Die vier Phasen der LCA

- Ziele und Untersuchungsrahmen

- Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) - Sachbilanz

- Life Cycle Impact-Assessment (LCIA) - Wirkungsabschätzung

- Auswertung und Interpretation

 

- Berichterstattung und Kritische Prüfung

- Normative Rahmenbedingungen (ISO 14040 Serie, ISO 14044)

- Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)

- Corporate Carbon Footprint (CCF)

- Water Footprint / Water Scarcity Footprint

- Praxisbeispiele

- Kritische Reflexion: Stärken und Schwächen der Methodik

Teaching method

Vorträge, Gruppenarbeit & Einzelübungen

Examination

Immanente Leistungsüberprüfung

 

Die Leistungsfeststellung erfolgt über formatives Assessment. Dieses besteht aus mindestens 3 Teilleistungsüberprüfungen (z.B. individuelle Arbeitsaufgaben, Gruppen-/Teamarbeiten inkl. Präsentation, Zwischen- und Abschlusstests) und wird zu Beginn der Lehrveranstaltung von den Lehrenden an die Studierenden kommuniziert.

Die detaillierte Übersicht entnehmen SIe bitte dem entsprechenden Moodlekurs.

Teaching language

Deutsch

Applied life cycle assessment UE

Applied life cycle assessment UE | SS2027

Content

- Investigation of existing LCA studies

- Dealing with Ecoinvent, OpenLCA, as well as with streamlined tools

- Realization of a full LCA study including definition of goal and scope, life cycle inventory, life cycle impact assessment and interpretation

Teaching method

Presentational methods:

- Teaching and learning methods

Participatory methods:

- Blended learning

- Exercises

- Individual tasks

- Group work

- Presentations by the students

Examination

Immanente Leistungsüberprüfung

 

Formative assessment:

1. Installation OpenLCA (5 Points)

2. Group work – Presentation (20 Points)

3. Group work – Calculation (40 Points)

3. Group work – Report (30 Points)

5. Active participation in class (5 Points)

 

Teaching language

Englisch

Selected topics of life cycle assessment ILV

Selected topics of life cycle assessment ILV | WS2026/27

Content

Prerequisite for the course:

- theory bridge course

IC content:

- in-depth studies of life cycle assessment (LCA) and related methodologies like Corporate Carbon Footprint (CCF), Product Carbon Footprint (PCF), Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) and Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)

- allocation (e.g. system expansion, economic and mass based allocation)

- impact assessment (normalization, weighting, interactions and correlations of impact categories)

- different methods and characterization models including e.g. Environmental Footprint, IPCC, CML and AWARE

- modelling of end of life (e.g. waste management processes with the Circular Footprint Formula)

- sensitivity analyses to assess the influence of a changed parameter on the LCA results arising from e.g. data quality, cut-off criteria, allocation method)

Teaching method

Presentational methods:

- Teaching and learning methods

Participatory methods:

- Blended learning

- Exercises

- Individual tasks

- Group work

- Presentations by the students

Examination

Immanente Leistungsüberprüfung

 

The integrated course is assessed through formative assessment. By awarding points during the integrated course (ongoing performance evaluation + 80% mandatory attendance) and not just at the end through a final examination, several advantages arise:

- The workload is distributed evenly throughout the semester.

- The assessment does not represent a snapshot.

- Teaching methods can be modified and adjusted as needed.

- Students take active responsibility for the learning process and receive individual courses for action.

 

Teaching language

Englisch

Sustainability Assessment and Ressource Management - Fundamentals 1 - Ecology & Technology ILV

Life Cycle Analysis ILV

Life Cycle Analysis ILV | SS2027

Content

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

- Grundlagen – from cradle to grave

- LCA-assessment (from cradle to grave) - Grundlagen- Die vier Phasen der LCA

- Ziele und Untersuchungsrahmen

- Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) - Sachbilanz

- Life Cycle Impact-Assessment (LCIA) - Wirkungsabschätzung

- Auswertung und Interpretation

 

- Berichterstattung und Kritische Prüfung

- Normative Rahmenbedingungen (ISO 14040 Serie, ISO 14044)

- Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)

- Corporate Carbon Footprint (CCF)

- Praxisbeispiele

Teaching method

Blended Learning (Vorträge, Gruppenarbeit; Einzelübung)

Examination

Immanente Leistungsüberprüfung

 

Die Leistungsfeststellung erfolgt über formatives Assessment. Dieses besteht aus mindestens 3 Teilleistungsüberprüfungen (z.B. individuelle Arbeitsaufgaben, Gruppen-/Teamarbeiten inkl. Präsentation, Zwischen- und Abschlusstests) und wird zu Beginn der Lehrveranstaltung von den Lehrenden an die Studierenden kommuniziert.

Teaching language

Englisch

Einführung Life Cycle Assessment ILV

Einführung Life Cycle Assessment ILV | SS2027

Content

- Life Cycle Assessment Grundlagen

- Ziele und Untersuchungsrahmen

- Life Cycle Inventory

- Life Cycle Impact-Analysis

- Normative Rahmenbedingungen (ISO-Serie)

- Berichterstattung

- Allokation

- Kritische Prüfung

- Product Environmental Footprint

- Water (Scarcity) Footprint

- Stärken und Schwächen

- Praxisbeispiele

Teaching method

Blended learning, bestehend aus Lehrendenvorträgen, praktischen Übungen, Präsentationen der Studierenden und E-Learning-Einheiten

Examination

Immanente Leistungsüberprüfung

 

Immanente Leistungsbeurteilung bestehend aus Leseaufgaben, Zwischentests, Arbeitsaufträge, Endprüfung

Teaching language

Deutsch

Environmental Law and EMS ILV

Environmental Law and EMS ILV | SS2027

Content

Important legal issues in environmental law for packaging technologies

Air pollution control law

Water law

Chemicals law

Environmental impact assessment

Law and sustainable entrepreneurship

ESG reporting

Environmental management systems

Teaching method

Blended learning: combination of asynchronous online learning phases and presence phases

Online phases: learning materials (books, papers, report, presentations, etc.), assignments, self-assessment, students forums, wikis, etc.

Presence phases: frontal teaching, case studies, group discussions, small group work and peer review, presentations, guest lectures, etc.

Examination

Immanente Leistungsüberprüfung

 

Continuous assessment including at least 3 partial assessments (e.g. intermediate test, final exam, short papers, presentations, group assignments)

Teaching language

Englisch