Why I chose to write EPDx in Rust: The goal of EPDx was never just to make another EPD format, but rather provide a set of tools that supports AEC professionals working with LCA. An obvious first tool to build were a parse from ILCD to EPDx.
EPDx is a library for parsing EPD files into a common exchange format. EPDs contain environmental data that is needed to calculate the LCA. EPDs come in many data formats e.g. ILCD+EPD and PDF, and it is not our intention to
The goal is to make an open, machine and human-readable data format for exchanging LCA results, EPD's and assemblies.
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