Project Life Cycle Assessment Baseline Guidance
In this document, ECHO defines aligned guidance on how to utilize project Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to construct a fair comparison between baseline and proposed projects. This document intends to provide a single, common project LCA baseline guidance document that a wide variety of embodied carbon initiatives and policies can reference directly in their programs.
Project Life Cycle Assessment Requirements: ECHO Recommendations for Alignment V 1.0
This publication summarizes ECHO’s findings and recommendations around project LCA requirements to drive alignment in the modeling and reporting of project LCAs submitted to the commitment and certification programs included in ECHO. As organizations both within and outside of ECHO continue to update their standards and programs, we stress the importance of collaborations like ECHO in moving towards harmonization and alignment across requirements, while allowing space for leaders to continue pushing the boundaries of project LCA and strategies for reducing embodied carbon in the built environment.
ECHO Reporting Schema
The ECHO Schema is designed to streamline data reporting, reduce inconsistencies, and support seamless data exchange across various LCA tools, platforms, and databases. By adopting a common language and structure for reporting project-level LCA results, we are taking a significant step towards more consistent and comparable LCA reporting. A JSON version of the schema with implementation guidance is in progress and will be published at a later date.