We provide robust, defensible environmental data for construction product manufacturers.
Life cycle assessment helps manufacturers improve products, substantiate sustainability claims, and compete in an EPD-driven marketplace.
Environmental product declarations are increasingly used for procurement, regulatory compliance, carbon accounting, and public environmental claims. When the stakes are this high, manufacturers need EPDs they can trust and defend.
Our EPDs are developed by experienced LCA experts who understand the complex data, methodology, assumptions, and review requirements. We give manufacturers confidence in the numbers they put into the marketplace.
We are a trusted technical authority, an independent nonprofit, and we have over 30 years of experience assessing the full range of construction products and systems.
We provide LCA services for specific manufacturer products or for industries as a whole (industry-average LCA and EPDs). Our work is often used to populate external databases for wider use. For example, we are the primary contributor to the development of a Canadian national LCI database, led by the National Research Council Canada.
Services we offer:
Environmental product declarations
An EPD is a public-facing summary of an LCA report and increasingly demanded by product specifiers and in procurement policies. We provide robust, reliable, defensible EPDs generated by LCA experts, not algorithms.
LCA data for manufacturing decisions
LCA is a powerful tool for testing and validating sustainability measures throughout the product value chain. We help manufacturers find environmental “hotspots” in existing products, experiment with product changes, and show how their product benchmarks against industry peers.
Third-party review
When an external set of expert eyes is needed, turn to us for peer review of LCA studies, PCRs, and EPDs. We help de-risk; for example, we can assess whether an EPD is technically robust enough to support procurement and marketing claims.
Custom EPD software
For industries that wish to generate different EPDs frequently, we can develop custom software to streamline the process.
