The evaluation of products - especially of agricultural origin - by means of Life Cycle Assessment is an important pillar of ecolysis Ltd..
As an employee of the Swiss agricultural research station AGROSCOPE, Peter Koch was responsible for the operational management of the AGRIBALYSE 1 program (2010 to 2013) in collaboration with the INRA UMR-SAS. AGRIBALYSE was a multi-year program aiming to develop a comprehensive life cycle assessment database for French agricultural products. Within the framework of this project, he coordinated the realization of life cycle inventories (LCI) for the plant production sector, contributed to the methodological developments of the models for the calculation of direct emissions and was responsible for the programming of the life cycle inventory tools. Based on existing Excel files, Peter Koch developed three collaborative tools and adapted them to the agronomic specificities of France: one tool for data entry, one for the conversion and calculation of LCIs (data processing chain), and one for the comparative and systematic presentation of results.
Peter Koch has extensive experience in the field of external evaluation. As a partner of econcept, he was project manager of several external evaluations of "new public management" programs, that is programs aiming at introducing result-oriented administrative management. As an employee of the evaluation department of the University of Zurich, he also developed and improved questionnaires for employee and student surveys, was responsible for conducting and analyzing various online surveys and organized the evaluation process (including peer reviews) of several university institutes.
Peter Koch has proven his IT-technical know-how in many projects, among others by programming various Excel tools for data processing or data transfer to MySQL and Access databases or in data migration using XML/XLST/X-Query.
Owner & Director
EcoLysis Ltd. was founded in 2021.
EcoLysis Ltd. is a consulting company specializing in the scientific analysis of environmental issues and sustainability topics, in program and project evaluation as well as in program-supported data processing.
Peter Koch has acquired this broad range of expertise through his many years of professional experience as a consultant. His services are aimed at public administrations as well as private companies and organizations.
Before 2021, Peter Koch worked under the name of Koch Consulting.
ecolysis is currently active in the following projects, among others
The working group ecolysis Ltd./econcept AG carries out the impact monitoring of project promotion on behalf of Innosuisse. The project includes the development and implementation of online questionnaires. Every quarter, all completed innovation projects supported by Innosuisse are surveyed. Every six months, innovation projects that have been completed in the last three years are surveyed. The survey data are transformed into reports which are made available to Innosuisse on a quarterly basis.
Project period: December 2020 to January 2023.
In collaboration with Prof. Jan-Paul Lindner (University of Bochum) and Horst Fehrenbauch (ifeu), ecolysis is developing the basics to integrate the impact of biodiversity in the LCA result of the 2500 food items of the AGRIBALYSE v3.01 database by means of the impact assessment method BVI (Biodiversity Value Index, see Lindner et al.). Project period: April 2021 to Juni 2022.
At the request of SAS Ante Strada, Citeo and ADEME, ecolysis is carrying out a comparative LCA of the beverage packaging systems "single use and recycling of bottles" and "reuse of bottles with a deposit system" within the framework of the COLARE project and with a view to setting up a "washing and reuse of bottles" system at three Corsican beverage producers. Project period: May 2021 to Mai 2022.
Before 2021, Peter Koch realized the following mandates (under the name of Koch Consulting)
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