Life Cycle Assessment
Measuring Environmental Impacts Across the Product Life Cycle
Drive Informed Decisions with ISO 14044 Conformant LCA
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a systematic study of environmental and human health impacts over all stages of a product’s life cycle, from raw material extraction through manufacturing, delivery, use, and disposal or recycling. As a global leader in the field of LCA, we put valuable information into your hands to support better decisions, improve bottom line performance, meet customer specifications, refine supply chains and material selection, and reduce impacts across the product life cycle.
Our LCAs conform with international standards, ISO 14040 and ISO 14044. Our range of services include studies of individual materials, decision making tools for manufacturing, comparative analysis with peer review, LCA for Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), LCA Critical Review, Higg MSI data set development and submission for textiles, and prospective LCAs for new products or facilities.
In-depth Knowledge
SCS has decades of technical experience conducting LCA studies for a wide cross-section of industries —electric power generation, textiles, food and agriculture, forestry products and paper, metals, building materials, furniture, biomaterials, glass, appliances, plastics, and more. We utilize the latest proprietary LCA software and databases, as well as openLCA, and we partner with Ecoinvent to develop customized tools for clients. The quality of our work has earned SCS high regard among leading NGOs and global organizations, including United Nations sponsored initiatives. This experience enables us to deliver studies that are complete, accurate, and cost-effective to help you make better informed decisions, improve your bottom-line performance, and meet the transparency needs of your customers and stakeholders.
Service Options
Choose the options that best meet your needs:
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Product LCA
Prepare an ISO 14044 conformant LCA for your product
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Comparative LCA for products
Support marketing claims against competing products with data
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Streamlined life cycle inventory (LCI)
Prepare your company for LCA with efficient LCI data collection and validation
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LCA screening
Conduct a preliminary assessment to identify key issues, hot spots, and data gaps
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Staff training
Increase understanding of topics such as ISO standards, LCA models, LCA data collection, and use of openLCA software
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LCA strategy
Obtain guidance on using LCA effectively to make decisions, satisfy clients and stakeholders, and achieve organizational goals
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LCA Verification
Find out about verification services through SCS Global Services here.
Client Testimonials
“As chair of a four-person panel, I helped to review SCS’s LCA of Reincarnation 100 paper. Based on a thorough examination, we were confident that this LCA was one of the most comprehensive, exacting, transparent and understandable reports on paper production ever to be published. We were very impressed with SCS’s thoroughness and the quality of the resulting LCA study.”
Susan Kinsella | Conservatree
“We chose SCS to complete our LCA because of the rigorous, holistic nature of the standardized methodology they apply, and their reputation for thoroughness and quality. The LCA study they completed presents a comprehensive and fair analysis that sets a new baseline for future LCAs. We are very pleased with the result.”
Jeff Mendelsohn | Founder and Chair of New Leaf Papers