Environmental Management

We undertake process- and technology-sustainability diagnostics and assessments from both an environmental and socioeconomic perspective. Indeed, our deep understanding of sustainability assessment methodologies and our wide-ranging experience in other fields (end-of-life processes, development of new materials, etc.) help to explain our position as a Reference Centre for sustainability assessment. Our offer ranges from technical/environmental audits to environmental (LCA), social (SLCA) and economic (LCC) life-cycle analyses. Likewise, we incorporate environmental information into geographical information systems to help in decision-making.

Similarly, we help our clients to reduce the impact of the entire life-cycle of their products by eco-designing sustainable products. Thus, as well as assessing and redesigning products for our clients, we also transform their work methodologies and help to implement them. Our software tools enable us to provide both global indicators for the measurement, follow-up and dissemination of each product's environmental improvement (calculated on the basis of environmental (LCA), social (SLCA) and economic (LCC) life-cycle analyses) and specific indicators (e.g. carbon footprint (CO2), water footprint).

Another of our areas of activity involves the sustainable design and planning of industrial zones using industrial ecology concepts (symbiosis and joint actions), which enables us to optimise resource use and the environmental impact associated with business centres whilst obtaining technical, economic and social benefits for all involved parties, including sustainable transport.

The centre's experience in this field includes the following aspects:

• Expert environmental diagnosis
• Technical, environmental and economic assessment of operations, processes and product
  • Life-cycle analyses (LCA)
  • Life-cycle costing (LCC)
  • Approval audits for recoverers/recyclers
  • Recyclability analyses
• Development of environmental diagnostic and assessment tools and methodologies
• Clean manufacturing and operation and process optimisation and improvement
  • Ekoscan
  • Emission and waste-flow reduction plans
• Product design and improvement
  • Ecodesign
  • Design for disassembly (DfD ), recycling (DfR ), the environment (DfE)…
• Sustainable design and planning for industrial zones
  • Industrial symbiosis
  • Sustainable industrial/technology parks
  • Development of industrial ecology tools