ECOINVENT
DATABASE CONTENT
ecoinvent database contains more than 23,000 LCI data sets including agriculture and livestock, building and construction, chemicals and plastics, energy, forestry and wood, textiles, transport, tourist accommodation, waste treatment and recycling, and water supply.
From February 2025, EIME will have ecoinvent "Allocation, cut-off, EN 15804" database (3.10.1 and 3.11 versions) in 2 formats:
- LCIA format – Dataset format giving access to the life cycle impact assessment (also called LCIA or emission factor). Does not include the aggregated list of elementary input/output flows (LCI)
- LCI format – Dataset format giving access to the aggregated list of elementary input/output flows (LCI) in Unit Process Black Box format (also called Cumulative Life Cycle Inventory) and giving access to the life cycle impact assessment (LCIA)
LCIE Bureau Veritas is registered at ecoinvent association as an official ecoinvent.
ECOINVENT EXPERTISE
ecoinvent was founded by the Swiss research institutes ETH, EPFL, Empa, Agroscope and the Paul Scherrer Institute.
The first version of the ecoinvent database was released in 2003.
Subsequent updates and a major revision led to the release of version 2 in 2007, marking ecoinvent as the most widely used LCI database globally.
In 2013, ecoinvent became an independent, not-for-profit association, continuing its mission to provide high-quality data for environmental assessments globally and fostering the development of a transparent and trustworthy database for the LCA community.
Version 3, released in 2013, aimed to enhance the technological foundation and methodological base for global use, supporting regionalized data and ensuring consistency between different regions.
INDICATOR SETS
In EIME, ecoinvent "Allocation, cut-off, EN 15804" database is supplied with a ready-to-use indicator set. This set contains all the indicators necessary for the realization of Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) in compliance with the standard EN 15804+A2:2019. This set includes:
- Impact indicators based on the characterization factors established by the European Commission (method according to EF 3.1 EN 15804)
- Inventory indicators as required by EN 15804 (methods according to ISO 21930)
COMPLIANCE & APPLICATIONS
ecoinvent "Allocation, cut-off, EN 15804" database complies with the EN 15804+A2:2019 and ISO 21930 standards. It is intended for LCA practitioners wishing to produce Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) based on ISO 14025 and EF 3.1 version EN 15804.
Note : the structure by UPR (Unit Process) and the uncertainty assessment (Pedigree Matrix) defined by ecoinvent are not available in EIME.
