LIFE CYCLE
ASSESSMENT

Consider us your outsourced sustainability department.

We support LCA Practitioners in two primary ways, LCA Support Services and LCA Program Management.

Our team of ACLCA Certified Practitioners can provide LCA services for any industry.
We can lead building your LCA program or play a specific LCA.
At times there is too much work for one Life Cycle Assessment Practitioner to handle. That is why WAP Sustainability.
As a company, brand or manufacturer, measuring and communicating the embodied carbon impacts of your product(s) or service(s) is a key sustainability fundamental. Measuring product level embodied carbon is done with a Life Cycle Assessment or LCA.

LCAs can be used for a variety of purposes such as creating an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), participating in a carbon neutral product certification, reporting Scope 3 emissions, sharing LCA data with a customer, or comparing two products against one another. Whatever the need, WAP Sustainability is available to provide LCA advisory or support.
  • LCA Program Management
  • LCA Support Services
  • Environmental Product Declarations
  • Supply Chain LCA
  • Supply Chain LCA
  • Embodied Carbon Accounting
  • LCA Critical Review
  • Carbon Neutral Certifications

LCA PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

In addition to our support services, we also take on full LCA projects where we handle the process from beginning to end. Whether it be a comparative LCA, LCA for EPD, Screening Level LCA or LCA as part of a certification, WAP Sustainability is able to manage LCA projects from start to finish. 

If you are starting on your first LCA project, we jump-start the process by bringing in an experienced team of practitioners.

If you are an experienced practitioner but simply have too many projects on your plate, send some to us at WAP Sustainability and we will help you get caught up.

Our LCA Process:

  • Project Kick-off meeting to discuss the goal and scope of the project. A plant tour is recommended
  • Collection of raw material data to the disclosure level required in the PCR
  • Raw material assessment and supplier outreach
  • Collection and quality assurance of energy, water, transportation and waste primary data
  • Development of customer use scenario(s)
  • Computation of the Life Cycle Impact results
  • Development of end of life scenario(s) Development of the LCA Model
  • Formal interpretation of the results
  • Completion of an ISO14040/44 compliant LCA report
  • Submission of the LCA report for third- party review
  • Management of third-party review process through final verification

Contact us today to see how we can assist you in achieving your objectives.

We have the tools to support you in your LCA work and increase your efficiency within the organization. We are partners with all the major program operators (UL, NSF, SCS, ASTM, etc.), have Certified ACLCA Life Cycle Assessment Professionals on staff, and have been approved by the International EPD System (EnvironDec) as Individual and Systems EPD Verifiers.

 

LCA SUPPORT SERVICES

We work alongside LCA practitioners to help with peer review, troubleshooting and general consulting. Our goal is to help support you in achieving your objectives and improve your efficiency. Whether it be writing an EPD or LCA report, completing a model, or reviewing technical documents, WAP is your LCA partner.

We are software agnostic and utilize all three major tools – GaBi, SimaPro and OpenLCA. This allows us to be versatile and adapts to your team’s pre-existing needs.

All of our work is based on the series of international standards, relevant product category rules (PCRs), and the appropriate standards for Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)ISO 21930, EN15804, etc. Our entire staff of LCA practitioners is certified by the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment as Certified Professionals (LCACP’s).

Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)

The purpose of an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is to publicly disclose the environmental impacts of a product including its embodied carbon (EC) number. 

EPDs combine the practice of life cycle assessment (LCA) with product transparency. At WAP Sustainability, we help companies create life cycle assessments (LCAs) and develop Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) that help you meet customer requirements. 

We provide a turn-key service that helps companies manage LCAs and EPDs affordably. 

We are partners with all the major program operators (UL, NSF, SCS, ASTM etc.), have Certified ACLCA Life Cycle Assessment Professionals on staff, and have been approved by the International EPD System (EnvironDec) as Individual and Systems EPD Verifiers.

If you already have existing LCAs and EPDs, WAP Sustainability can help identify ways to reduce the embodied carbon footprint of your products through our Supply Chain LCA Services or help create LEED compliant EPD Action Plans and/or EPD Optimization documents. 

Our EPD Services include:Get in touch with us to see how we can help with your Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs).

  • Project kick-off meeting to strategically categorize products for optimal EPD disclosure
  • Collection of quality conformance disclosure requirements
  • Collection of relevant non-life cycle environmental data and programs
  • Collection of graphical requirements of EPD
  • Development of copy for full EPDs
  • Development of summary EPDs
  • Internal review of EPDs with core stakeholders
  • Collection of quotes from third party program operators
  • Finalization of EPDs and submission to program operator (Unbiased third party)
  • Management of the verification process from initial submission to final validation
  • Educational Support and Training for Sales Teams
  • Website and Marketing Material Copy announcing the EPD(s)
  • Embodied Carbon and Product Transparency Database Management (EC3, Declare labels, mindful Materials, Better Materials, etc.)
Embodied Carbon Reduction 

LEED Zero, ILFI Zero Carbon EC3, Buy Clean California Act, AB262, Washington HB 2412, Declare Labels with Embodied Carbon are voluntary or regulatory programs that nudge manufacturers to reduce the Embodied Carbon of their products. 

WAP uses a combination of proprietary tools like our Supply Chain LCA Program paired with experience in LCA interpretation to strategize embodied carbon reductions.

WAP Sustainability works with manufacturers to identify the most effective pathways for reducing the embodied carbon of products. 

EPD Optimization 

LEED Compliant EPD Optimization Documents are used to show life cycle assessment reductions against EPD Baselines, Industry-Wide baselines, or Product to Product Baselines. WAP Sustainability partners with Program Operators, LCA Verifiers and Critical Reviewers to develop EPD Optimization Documents and EPD Optimization Summary Reports that highlight GWP Reductions of 10%, 20% or any percentage for the LEED v4 and v4.1 Building Product Disclosure and Optimization (BPDO) Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) – Option 2 Optimization Credit.  

EPD Action Plans

WAP Sustainability can also help Manufacturers create LEED compliant Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) Action Plans that interpret LCA results and document strategies of reducing embodied carbon of products in accordance with the LEED v4 and v4.1 Building Product Disclosure and Optimization (BPDO) Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) – Option 2 Optimization Credit.

SUPPLY CHAIN LCA PROGRAM

If you are looking for tools or strategies to reduce your products’ embodied carbon or lower scope 3 product-level emissions, WAP sustainability has solutions for you. Our Supply Chain LCA Program helps you improve data quality by partnering with your suppliers on the generation of upstream product-specific LCAs. This program has been used by leading companies looking to make the claim of the “lowest carbon footprint in category”.

If you are a supplier being asked about Embodied Carbon, WAP Sustainability can help you meet the product LCA needs of your customers. Our Supply Chain LCA Program helps suppliers meet the LCA requests from clients using multiple LCA software solutions.

The Supply Chain LCA Program is a popular solution for clients looking to make FTC compliant carbon superiority claims of products or services, or show Scope 3 product level LCA reductions, or to generate EPD Action Plans / Optimization Credits for LEED v4.1.

Embodied Carbon Accounting

WAP partnered with leading technology companies to develop the Protocol for Measuring Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment. 

WAP partnered with leading technology companies to develop the Protocol for Measuring Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment. WAP Sustainability is a leader in executing this protocol to measure the embodied carbon impact of a building project. Our approach is useful for both the procurement of low carbon materials (LEED WBLCA + LEED Low Carbon Procurement Pilot Credit) as well as fostering accountability of embodied carbon reporting through GRI and CDP.

Reach out to WAP Sustainability if you are interested in learning more about our Embodied Carbon Accounting Services.

LCA Critical Review

WAP provides LCA Reviews as part of the EPD Verification Process or for organizations looking to make comparative assertions about their LCA results. We have helped organizations by developing FTC-compliant LCA Review Processes including the organization of LCA Review Panels and multi-party LCA Critical Review.

WAP Sustainability also provides LCA Critical Reviews and LCA Verifications under its own brand or as Approved Verifiers with organizations like EnvironDec (The International EPD System), PEP EcoPassport, UL Environment, NSF International, NRMCA and many more. Many of WAP’s LCA Review Staff are certified under the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA) Certified Life Cycle Assessment Reviewer (CLAR) Program.

Carbon Neutral Certifications

WAP Sustainability provides advisory and certification services for companies interested in declaring its product or operations as “carbon neutral”.

 WAP helps organizations navigate the over 30 competing certifications and labeling programs to understand the GHG Inventory or LCA requirements, effort and costs associated with each. WAP also provides its own branded Carbon Neutral Certification Program for products and operations but also works with many leading certifications such as ClearLoop, CarbonFund.org  Carbonfree® Product Certification, Carbon Trust Reducing CO2, and many more.

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We know you might have questions, and we’re here to make sustainability easier.

Reach out with any needs so we can help you navigate them.

We’re your partner in sustainability.

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