Hi ,

I am an environmental consultant by profession. I have carried out many EIA studies. I am currently working as a sustainability consultant in Ireland and my team is exploring the possibility of basing SSc: Site Assessment on EIA reports. I was wondering if anyone had experience with using EIA reports to check off some or all of the requirements of SSc: Site Assessment. Most of the requirements are already covered in the EIA report in a chapter called "Description of the exisitng (or baseline) environment." It seems to me that since there is an EIA study that was conducted on a site before project design and that ideally would have influenced the design then it just makes sense to refer to the EIA report to see if analysis of environmental aspects like climate, topography, hydrology, vegetation etc were covered and then fill the credit worksheet accordingly.