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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

We support our clients in understanding, reducing and communicating the environmental impact of their processes, products and services.

Corporate Social Responsibility is generally understood to be the way firms integrate social, environmental and economic concerns into their values, culture, decision making, strategy and operations in a transparent and accountable manner, thereby establishing better practices within the firm, reducing its pressure on the ecosystem, creating wealth and improve society.

We provide strategic consultancy, services and tools to help our clients in developing and carrying out their CSR activities.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a method that enables measuring the environmental impacts of a product, a service, or an investment such as a building or an infrastructure project during its entire life-cycle from raw materials to final disposal, or a subset of the life-cycle. Life Cycle Assessment is intended to measure overall environmental performance and avoid burden shifting. This allows improving overall environmental performance, when the essential environmental impacts are identified. Full Life Cycle Assessment takes into account various categories of environmental impact. Simplified LCA can be focused on a single environmental impact category, such as carbon or water footprint.

The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) provides guidelines for conducting a Life Cycle Assessment within the ISO 14040 and 14044 series.

LCC and SLCA

Life Cycle Costing (LCC) is the economical approach to life cycle performance. In Life Cycle Costing all the costs incurred during a life-cycle of a product or a service are identified, accounted and categorized. Life cycle costing can be used in making investment decisions, product development, marketing and in mapping value chain environmental and energy risks.

Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) or social and socio-economic Life Cycle Assessment is a social impact (and potential impact) assessment technique that aims to assess the social and socio-economic aspects of products and their potential positive and negative impacts along their life cycle encompassing extraction and processing of raw materials; manufacturing; distribution; use; re-use; maintenance; recycling; and final disposal. S-LCA assesses social and socio-economic impacts found along the life cycle (supply chain, including the use phase and disposal) with generic and site specific data. It differs from other social impacts assessment techniques by its objects: products and services, and its scope: the entire life cycle. Social and socioeconomic aspects assessed in S-LCA are those that may directly affect stakeholders positively or negatively during the life cycle of a product. They may be linked to the behaviors of enterprises, to socio-economic processes, or to impacts on social capital. Depending on the scope of the study, indirect impacts on stakeholders may also be considered.

Sustainability is not only an environmental matter. We can assess the economic and social impacts of the project through Life Cycle Costing and Social-LCA analysis.

EPD® Environmental Product Declaration

We support companies in developing environmental declarations for communications and green marketing. An EPD® is an independently (third-party) verified and registered document that communicates transparent and comparable information about the life-cycle environmental impact of processes, products, and services

Critical Review

We provide our experience for the critical review of LCA studies. This is a process intended to ensure consistency between a study and the principles and requirements of the applicable International Standards.

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