Additional Resources
Click on the following links for additional information.
The Federal Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Commons is an inter-agency initiative to coordinate LCA research and programmatic activities across federal agencies. The Federal LCA Commons provides data repositories with free, available LCA process data. These data products are intended to be used in Life Cycle Assessment studies and do not require a login or an account.
This website provides information on Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health (ESOH) in defense acquisition and includes Life Cycle Assessment resources.
This toolkit provides LCA guidance and tools for resource valorization projects.
This website includes tools covering life cycle assessment, material management, and other topics.
The ACLCA is a nonprofit membership organization providing education, awareness, advocacy, and communications to build capacity and knowledge of LCA. ACLCA membership consists of industry, academia, government, consulting, and non-governmental organizations.
This link provides guidance on Product Category Rules (PCRs)—sets of rules that guide Environmental Product Declarations (EPD). EPDs are used to communicate the potential life cycle impacts of products and processes and inform procurement decisions. The PCR Guidance document is free to download.
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.
