Footprint Expert™ Training Courses

We provide comprehensive and high-quality footprinting training to both companies and consultancies. As international leaders in product footprinting, we recognise that we can continue to enable businesses to measure, reduce and communicate the footprints of their products and services. Our two-day training courses are designed to provide you with the skills you need to conduct a successful footprinting project using the Footprint Expert™ toolkit.

You will be provided with training versions of the Footprint Expert™ toolkit that are used by each delegate during the course for a hands-on experience of footprint modelling. We also provide supporting documents, such as sales literature, the PAS 2050 documents and copies of the training slides and a Carbon Trust certificate after the successful completion of the course. As you would expect, the courses are run by industry experts in product carbon footprinting with detailed experience in the methodology, Footprint Expert™ toolkit and supporting projects for multi-nationals and SMEs. 

For more information on our Footprint Expert™ training courses or to express an interest in attending, please contact us at FootprintExpertTraining@carbontrust.co.uk. 

Training Dates
Footprint Expert™ training courses are held once every few months, with forthcoming dates listed below.. The training is held from 09:30 to 17:00 on both days, with reception at 09:00.

 Location

 Year

Month

 Dates

Status

London 2011 November 22nd - 23rd FULL
London 2012 March 13th-14th Spaces
London 2012 June TBC Spaces

Location
The courses are located in London, using first-class training venues and facilities. The courses are also available internationally, with previous locations including France, Germany and America. We can also provide training at the premises of an individual organisation. To request a training course outside of London or at your business, please contact us.

Training will be held at ETC Venues (The Hatton). The closest tubes are Chancery Lane and Farringdon with several easily accessible bus links.

Costs
Training is a 2 day course and cost £900 per person with lunch, tea and coffee provided.

Footprint Expert™ Training Course Agenda

Day 1

 Morning 

  • Reception and tea/coffee
  • Introduction to climate change, legislation and the role of the Carbon Trust
  • Case Studies of product footprinting projects
  • Overview of PAS 2050 and Life-cycle Assessment 
  • Up-to-date review of emerging footprinting standards and methodologies
  • The benefits of product carbon footprinting
  • Overview of the Footprint Expert toolkit™
  • Successful project management: 
    • How to undertake a project scoping workshop
    • Identifying the most effective project
    • Modelling techniques
    • Requirements for certification and labelling 
  • Lunch (provided) 

Afternoon

  • The fundamentals of product footprinting and the PAS 2050
    • Completing a process map
    • Setting footprint boundaries 
    • Understanding data quality
    • Defining the product functional unit
  • The Footprint Expert™ Toolkit
    • Overview 
    • Data input sheets 
    • Sources and use of secondary and primary data 
    • Assumptions sheet 
    • Use of the Footprint Expert™ Crop Calculator
  • Building a product footprint in Footprint Expert™
    • Defining each process step
    •  Conducting a high-level hotspot analysis
    • Sources of emissions factors

 Day 2 

Morning 

  • Tea/Coffee 
  • Building a footprint model within Footprint Expert™ 
    • Using the mass balance
    • Energy
    • Fugitive emissions
    • Linking process sheets
    • Waste
    • Footprinting raw materials
    • Co-product allocation
    • Transportation
    • Completing process sheets
    • Interpreting the results
  • Question and Answer session
  • Lunch (provided)

 Afternoon 

  • Completing the footprint model within Footprint Expert™ 
    • Retail Distribution Centres 
    • Retail and Supermarket emissions
    • Defining and modelling the product use phase 
    • Modelling the emissions from the product end-of-life
  • Calculating a Final Footprint Value 
    • Linking the processes
    • Reporting and rounding rules
    • Calculating the main sources of emissions across the supply chain
  • Next steps
    • Calculating the main sources of emissions across the supply chain
    • Completing the Product Emissions Report 
    • Reduction strategies
    • Communication options
    • Labelling
    • On-going relationship and support with the Carbon Trust