Review, Verification and Validation for LCA, EPD and carbon footprints

The reliability and credibility of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) results can be increased by an independent review or validation process.  We are supervising LCA projects as external reviewers. Thus, we can support your LCA-projects and improve the reliability based on decades of experience in the field of LCA. Therefore, we offer the following services:

Critical Review according to ISO standards 14040, 14044, 14067

You are elaborating a full LCA or you work together with a consultant? The international life cycle standards (ISO 14040 and others) demands an external critical review panel for comparative studies which are published. Also, other studies can benefit from such an external view. The critical review process shall ensure that:

• the methods used to carry out the LCA are consistent with the international standard
• the methods used to carry out the LCA are scientifically and technically valid
• the data used are appropriate and reasonable in relation to the goal of the study
• the interpretations reflect the limitations identified and the goal of the study
• the study report is transparent and consistent

We offer you a critical review according to the ISO 14040, 14044 or 14067 standard by experienced LCA practitioner. Furthermore, we can also review against standards like the greenhouse gas protocol, SBTI or PAS 2050. Therefore, we will give feedback to the four main stages of such a study: goal & scope, inventory analysis, impact assessment and interpretation. For comparative studies, we can collaborate with other LCA experts in a review panel. The procedure and results of the processes are documented in a final review statement for the commissioner, which will also be part of the published study. Among others, we supported more than 100 LCA studies on the several different subjects as reviewers.

Verifications of EPDs according to EN15804 as an approved individual verifier for different organisations

It is essential for the market acceptance of EPD that the data and other environmental information given are considered reliable and trustworthy. The underlying data, the data handling and the EPD itself should therefore be subject to an independent verification and official registration. Niels Jungbluth  is listed as an approved individual verifier for the international EPD® System and can also work for other systems like IBU-Bau, PEP or KBOB. ESU can thus verify LCA-based data, additional environmental information and the EPD® written in English and German.

Internal Validation of LCI data

You would like to check your life cycle inventory analysis for completeness, consistency, and errors? Our experience allows an efficient validation of your data. We have validated several of the ecoinvent data. It was checked if these unit process raw data fullfil the quality guidelines of the ecoinvent centre.

Peer Reviews for Scientific Journals

Members of ESU-services Ltd. comprise the peer review of scientific papers on LCA related issues in the following scientific journals:

• Agricultural Systems
• AMBIO
• Biosystems Engineering
• Building and Environment
• Chemie Ingenieur Technik
• Ecological Economics
• Ecological Indicators
• Energy
• Energy for Sustainable Development
• Environmental Impact Assessment Review(EIA)
• Environment International
• Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T)
• Food Research International
• Fuel
• GCB Bioenergy
• GAIA - Zeitschrift für transdisziplinäre Umweltforschung
• International Dairy Journal
• International Journal of LCA
• Journal of Cleaner Production
• Journal of Industrial Ecology
• Land Use Policy
• Solar Energy
• Sustainability
• Waste Management
• Resources, Energy and Development (REaD)
• Energy: The International Journal