Consider us your outsourced sustainability department.
We support LCA Practitioners in two primary ways, LCA Support Services and LCA Program Management.
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, meeting federal procurement program requirements (such as the Federal Buy Clean initiative), 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.
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:
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
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).
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.
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.
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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