Assessment Tools

Economic Input Output Life Cycle Assessment - The Green Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University maintains the EIO-LCA project, showing the economic and environmental effects of producing 500 commodities sorted by industry group and sector. Results include pollutants, greenhouse gases, toxic chemicals, and employment.
www.eiolca.net

EIAxpert: rule-based screening-level EIA - Expert system software for environmental impact assessment. Intended for pre-feasibility screening evaluations. Environmental Software and Services GmbH.
www.ess.co.at/EIA/

Envest : Green Building Design Software - Software tool for estimating the lifecycle environmental impacts of a building from the early design stage. Considers the environmental impacts of: materials used during construction; resources consumed over the building's life.
www.bre.co.uk/envest

GREAT-ER - Geography-Referenced Exposure Assessment Tool for European Rivers - Publicly available (free) GIS-based software tool for environmental risk assessment and management of chemicals in river basins. Information about the model, its validation and calibration, and applications to date. Request a copy or download manuals, updates, and other materials.
www.great-er.org/

SimaPro Life Cycle Assessment software - A tool to perform professional life cycle assessment (LCA) studies. It comes with a large database and a number of impact assessment methods.
www.pre.nl/simapro