ESU offers all relevant consulting themes around the topic of life cycle assessment (LCA)
Life cycle thinking is an important element of sustainable development.
The core services of ESU are consulting, software, data, training and research in the fields of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and carbon footprints. We work for all economic sectors such as energy, food, civil engineering, basic minerals, chemicals, packaging, telecommunication, agriculture and lifestyles. ESU also creates environmental product declarations (EPD) and conduct critical review as well as verifications according to different standards.
Our focus is on the life cycle assessment methodology and its application in research, product development, product labelling, marketing and politics. The method is used to record and evaluate the environmental impact of products over their entire life cycle, from cradle to grave. In this way, we support our customers in reducing the environmental impact and greenhouse gas emissions in the life cycle of the products they produce or consume.
Enabling our customers to understand and reduce environmental impacts since 25 years
The name ESU derives from the German Energie-Stoffe-Umwelt (energy-materials-environment), which covers our main areas of expertise. ESU-services Ltd. has been founded in 1998. Our CEO Niels Jungbluth has LCA experience since 1994.
fair consulting in sustainability
Fairness, independence and transparency are substantial characteristics of our consulting philosophy. This means, we work issue-related and accomplish our analyses without prejudice. Our studies and work are documented transparently and comprehensibly. Thus, it is also possible for an outsider to control the quality of our work at any time. We offer a fair and competent consultation, which makes it for the clients possible to control and continuously improve their ecological performance. The same objectives are followed for our own environmental policy.
Contact us for a quote if you would like to analyze, compare or publish the environmental impact of your products.
The support ESU-services can provide you for life cycle thinking
LCA consulting and case studies
ESU-offers LCA consulting aiming to reduce environmental impacts for various themes.
- LCA case studies according to ISO 14040 and 14044 on energy systems, biofuels, food, packaging, lifestyles, transport, electronics, materials, construction products, and many other sectors.
- Environmental product declarations (EPD), Product Environmental Profile (PEP), Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) verified by third parties
- Development of Product Category Rules (PCR, PEFCR) for EPDs.
- Balance of a company’s total emissions including the flow of goods like an organizational life cycle assessment (OLCA) – or corporate carbon footprint (CCF) according to GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard. This is used as a basis for ESRS (European Sustainability Reporting Standards) according to the CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive), other reporting initiatives, or climate target setting.
- Consulting on life cycle and supply chain management.
- Life cycle costing (LCC)
- Ecodesign of products, life cycle design
- Project management in ground-breaking life cycle assessment projects such as ecoinvent and the “Life Cycle Assessment of Energy Products”.
- Other assessment methods such as CO2-balances (carbon footprint), water footprint, environmental footprint, energy analyses, ecological footprint, biodiversity footprint, or transport balances.
- Material and substance flow analyses (MFA and SFA).
- Environmental extended input-output analysis
- Development of life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) methods, e.g. method of ecological scarcity (environmental impact points).
- Expertise and Standardisation for life cycle assessment
Software offered for LCA calculations
- Sales of for the world’s leading LCA software SimaPro.
- Automation for LCA and EPD calculation and documentation
- Simplified web tools and Excel parameter models.
Education for environmental managers and the public
- Training and coaching for LCA software and application.
- Education and training, lectures
- Support for journalists
- Organization of workshops such as the life cycle assessment discussion forum and conferences (International LCA foods conference).
Life cycle inventory data
- Life cycle inventory analysis, e.g., for oil and gas products for third party databases like ecoinvent, KBOB or CarbonMinds.
- Sales of own and third party life cycle inventory data for various areas of interest (e.g. food production and consumption, energy systems, chemicals or social life cycle assessment).
Review, Verification and Validation for environmental assessments
- Critical review according to ISO 14040, 14044, 14067, and other standards.
- Verification of EPDs according to EN 15804
- Advice on the development of standards for life cycle assessment.
- Articles for scientific journals, review, editor for the Int J LCA.
Networks facilitating our work
ESU-services works worldwide for all types of clients ranging from small companies, industry organizations, authorities, national and international research programs, non-governmental organizations to ecology groups. Therefore, we cooperate with partners from consulting, university and other organizations. Most important is collaboration within the SimaPro partner network that allows us finding easily cooperation partners all over the world. In several areas, team members of ESU-services performed pioneering work or are involved in large projects with industrial partners.
