The Software-System and database GaBi for Life Cycle Engineering of IKP, University Stuttgart, has been made available to the LCA-community as a professional tool since 1992. In September 2002, the new version GaBi4 was released together with PE Europe, available in English, Japanese and German.
The GaBi software System and database supports LCA and LCE practitioners in efficiently performing LCA studies. While the database once has been main reason for using GaBi, the version GaBi3 became one of the world leading tools for professional use under WindowsTM also for its software capabilities and the easy to use graphical user-interface. Main aspects were also the modular approach and high flexibility.
Several, fundamentally new functions were implemented during the development of GabBi4 and become more easy to learn and use as well as more flexible and powerful.
This paper explains the powerful features in LCI modeling, visualization, balance analysis, helpful features and LCE support of GaBi software.
