Convert ILCD+EPD JSON Files

ILCD+EPD is a widely used digital EPD format. LCAx allows you to convert ILCD+EPD files into LCAx EPDs.

ILCD+EPD

ILCD+EPD is a format for digital EPDs, which contain machine-readable EPD information stored in an XML format that can be used by building LCA tools.
ILCD is a widely used data format developed by the European Commission.¹

Even though ILCD+EPD originally was created as an XML data structure it can also be exported as JSON data, which is what LCAx converts.

ILCD+EPD Providers

Several platforms used ILCD+EPD as their underlying data structure. The following platforms provide data in the ILCD+EPD format:

• ECO Portal
• Ökobau
• EPD Norway

Code Example

In the following example we will take a look at how easy it is to convert an ILCD file into LCAx:

from pathlib import Path
import lcax

ilcd_file = Path("ilcd.json")

epd = lcax.convert_ilcd(ilcd_file.read_text())