Whole Life Cycle Assessment for Planning and BREEAM Mat01

Whole Life Cycle Assessments for Planning and BREEAM Mat01

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Whole Life Cycle Assessment (WLCA) Services for Planning Applications, GLA, and BREEAM Mat01

We offer expert Whole Life Cycle Assessment (WLCA) services tailored for planning applications, ensuring compliance with Greater London Authority (GLA) and BREEAM Mat01 standards.

Therefore, our assessments adhere to national and international standards, including RICS and ISO 14040, providing accurate and reliable results.

Our Whole Life Cycle Assessment Services Include:

The Compliance

Planning Applications: Our WLCA services for planning applications meet the stringent requirements of the GLA. We collaborate with developers and planners to assess the environmental impacts of proposed developments throughout their entire life cycle, including carbon footprint evaluation from raw material extraction, manufacturing, construction, operation, and demolition or recycling.
BREEAM Mat01 Compliance: We offer detailed WLCA services to help projects achieve BREEAM Mat01 credits. Our assessments focus on the environmental impacts of construction products, ensuring your project meets the highest sustainability standards. We use recognized third-party tools and methodologies to compare your design against BREEAM benchmarks and explore options to minimize environmental impacts.

The Standards

Adherence to RICS Standards: Our WLCA services comply with Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) standards, ensuring thorough and accurate assessments that adhere to industry best practices. We provide clear and transparent reporting, helping you understand the environmental implications of your project and make informed decisions.
ISO 14040 Compliance: We follow ISO 14040 standards for life cycle assessment, providing a robust framework for evaluating the environmental impacts of products and services. Our approach includes defining the goal and scope of the LCA, conducting life cycle inventory analysis, impact assessment, and interpretation, ensuring comprehensive and internationally recognised assessments.
Support During All RIBA Stages: We offer support throughout all RIBA Stages, ensuring timely, compliant, and high-quality service delivery. Our team is dedicated to providing precise and efficient support, helping you navigate each stage with confidence and ease.

Therefore, we work with customers who need mandatory LCA’s to their projects, and those voluntarily choosing to carry out these assessments to lower their project’s embodied carbon emissions for a sustainable built environment.

Hence, our process includes planning, modelling and managing. We start by covering all of the proposed ideas and policies that need to be adhered to, then we model the carbon emissions on-site.

Thereafter, we provide continual management during and post-construction where we track progress and see how the outcomes compare to initial targets working together with contractos and design team to manage and reduce the embodied carbon emissions for the built environment.

Why work with Sustain Quality?

We have a vast range of knowledge and experience when it comes to Life Cycle Assessments, hence we understand how to get the most out of your project to keep its carbon footprint low.

Therefore, we provide our customers with enhanced support and advice through all stages of development. It includes detailed recommendations for reducing the impact your building has on the environment. Hence, it provides guidance on how to choose the low embodied carbon materials, find the right suppliers and identify the most efficient designs.

Improve your profits and create a better built environment using our expert Life Cycle Assessment modelling solutions at Sustain Quality.