GH2: Life Cycle Assessment

This indicator examines the entity’s approach to life cycle assessments and emissions methodology. GHG emissions are linked to every stage of the life cycle of assets – starting from extraction or manufacturing of materials and their transportation, through construction, use phase and end of life. Understanding and consistent measurement of life-cycle emissions of built projects is important for identifying the best opportunities for reducing lifetime emissions and target setting.

Select Yes or No: If selecting ‘Yes’, select applicable sub-options.

Exceptions

Select Yes or No: GRESB is seeking to standardize the scope and boundaries of reporting to allow for more accurate benchmarking and to progressively move towards scoring of performance. If the scope of the data reported for this indicator does not exactly match the reporting scope (facilities, ancillary activities and time period) as reported in “Entity and Reporting Characteristics” (EC4, RC3, RC4), then answer ‘No’ to this question and describe these exceptions in the “Exceptions” text box.

This indicator is not subject to manual or automatic validation.

Validation Basics

The scoring of this indicator is equal to the fraction assigned to the selected option, multiplied by the total score of the indicator.

Scoring Basics

BREEAM, Infrastructure: Projects International | Version 6

CDP Climate Change 2020 Questionnaire, C-CN6.6/C-CRE6.6, C-CN6.6a/C-RE6.6a

RICS, 2017, Whole life carbon assessment for the built environment