How to use results from published EPDs of your suppliers for your own study
ESU offers a tool to import life cycle impact assessment results (LCIA results) published in an environmental product declaration (EPD) to SimaPro.
Case: You want to use product specific data from EPD studies e.g. of your suppliers to model your own processes and products in SimaPro.
Our Solution: Several thousands of EPDs (environmental product declarations) are published and form a possible basis for further LCA calculations. With the EPD importer, you can easily reproduce EPD results calculated by others with the EN 15804 + A1 or the EN 15804 + A2 assessment method in SimaPro. Thus, you can use such data provided e.g. by a supplier for own LCI models to calculate an environmental product declaration.
Procedure: You just need to replace the standard parameter values with the EPD results. The tool assigns the results automatically to individual emissions and eliminates double counts. The dataset is provided as a .CSV file. You can either copy and modify the EPD import file in Excel and import many datasets in bulk to SimaPro or import a dummy dataset and copy and adjust the copies directly in SimaPro.
Price: The EPD importer including a short documentation is offered for 300 CHF.
Please contact us to discuss your needs and to get a specific offer.
