Templates
This page includes guidance on incorporating life cycle assessment results in the final report and a data template for developing a life cycle inventory.
June 2024
This guidance document provides guidance to principal investigators on discussing their Life Cycle Assessment approach and results within their final reports.
July 2023
This Microsoft Excel sheet provides a data collection template that shows PIs how to develop a life cycle inventory, apply characterization factors to estimate environmental life cycle impacts, and generate life cycle cost estimates.
Using the LCA Toolkit:
The following toolkit pages provide the various resources for PIs conducting Life Cycle Assessments:
Includes specific guidance documents on performing life cycle-related assessments for SERDP and ESTCP PIs and other subject-specific materials. PIs will also find the link to DoD life cycle-related assessment guidance.
Includes previous short courses on performing a life cycle-related assessments and other resource videos.
Provides a report template and data collection template that shows PIs how to develop a life cycle inventory and determine life cycle impacts.
Includes tools for conducting a life cycle-related assessments (such as the Defense Input-Output database) and a description of available software and datasets.
Provides examples of previous SERDP/ESTCP-funded life cycle-related assessments.
Provides website links to other federal programs and external resources related to life cycle-related assessments.
Contains answers to the most frequently asked questions about life cycle-related assessment.
