LCA Quadrant Tool For Eco-Design

Navigating through footprint data

An LCA provides you with a huge quantity of layered data on the environmental impact of your product over all its life cycle stages and thus sometimes loses the forest for the trees. Our LCA QUADRANT tool has all the necessary features to keep a comprehensive overview and allows an easy drill down to lift out your hotspots.

Supporting comprehensive eco-design

A lifecycle assessment (LCA) calculates the impact of your product according to 19 environmental impact categories and across each stage of its lifecycle. It details the full environmental impact of your product, from raw materials and supply chain to production processes, logistics, application, maintenance and end-of-life processing. As a result, LCAs are mandatory for every Green Deal proposal.

Benchmarking for sustainable product selection

The environmental performance of products may differ due to raw materials used, supply chain factors, production methods, application techniques and/or end-of-life scenarios. When product lifecycle scope and LCA model are the same they can be easily compared – for one or different products – enabling informed and accurately benchmarked environmental product choices.

A roadmap for continuous improvement

When you benchmark your as-is situation with your to-be ecological footprint after a hotspot analysis, you are empowered to plan your sustainable innovations and clearly demonstrate improved impacts to your stakeholders. Easily develop a sustainable roadmap and identify the KPIs you need to track and improve to achieve your goals.

Hotspot analyses for sustainable innovation

Because an LCA assesses a product’s impact in these 19 categories across each of its lifecycle stages, it highlights the product’s most critical impact category and lifecycle stage. Even more, it drills down even further to identify environmental impact hotspots – a specific raw material, a mode of transport, an energy carrier or even a type of packaging –, and thus guides you on your path toward sustainable innovation.

Comply in a click with (inter)national legislation

Buildings and infrastructure have a huge impact on our environmental footprint.To reduce this impact and limit the ecological footprint of buildings, governments apply European standards, but with local interpretations and complements which can be an enormous burden for exporting businesses. Our LCA QUADRANT tool comes with all of these different interpretations and complements built-in and is capable of overcoming this challenge with a click.

Calculate ecological footprints simply and easily

Our LCA QUADRANT tool is compartmentalised based on different lifecycle stages, and the ecological footprint of a product is calculated based on the stages you select. If one application changes, there is no need to edit product formulation, factory inputs, packaging, transport, etc. The PEF single environmental score is calculated on top, and combines all 19 impact categories, for a simple, overall interpretation.

Streamlined LCAs for product ranges and plants

Because LCAs are limited to a specific product scope, when product variations are developed, new data records must be assigned and impacts recalculated. Our smart, customised LCA QUADRANT tool takes every single raw material (used or planned) into account, thus calculating the footprint of each product reference within a range. Multiple factories can be defined, enabling the calculation of a single product’s environmental footprint by factory.

Adhere to the most respected best practices, norms and standards

The backbone of the LCA model used by our LCA QUADRANT tool is based on EN 15804 +A2:2019, ISO standards 14040, 14044, and 14025, and all national European complements and methods. We also offer INIES, a methodology and set of requirements applied in France that are still based on EN 15804 +A1:2012. When calculating an EPD according to EN15804 +A2:2019, the LCA Tool adds the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) single score, defined by the European Commission’s Joint Research Center.