Life Cycle Assessments

About Dr Ina Peukes

PhD in Life Cycle Assessment
Contributor to CIBSE TM65 — Embodied Carbon in Building Services: A Calculation Methodology
One of the first to run a life cycle assessment on an HVAC system using primary data

In 2016, Ina's master's thesis was about applied life cycle assessment to four types of wall insulation — already an established methodology, but one the built environment wasn't yet using in everyday practice. In 2018, Ina began a PhD applying that same rigour to HVAC systems, this time building primary data into the assessment rather than relying on database averages.

Partway through that PhD, Ina was invited to contribute to CIBSE TM65 — Embodied Carbon in Building Services: A Calculation Methodology — published in 2021. Ina helped shape the industry's methodology before she'd published her own PhD research, which came out in 2023.

Since then, the same approach has taken me across the wider built environment: products, materials, and services, wherever a business needs a life cycle assessment rigorous enough to publish, defend, and act on.

Ina started auverde because that rigour shouldn't be reserved for landmark research projects. Every business making, installing, or specifying a product or service deserves an assessment built on the best available data, aligned with the standards that matter, and clear enough to act on. That's what we do, every time — and we do it with you, not just for you.

A life cycle assessment measures impact across the whole story of a product or service.

A life cycle assessment (LCA) quantifies the environmental impact of a product or service across its entire life — from raw material extraction, through manufacturing and distribution, to use and end of life. Done properly, in line with ISO 14040 and ISO 14044, an LCA is what sits underneath a credible carbon footprint, an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), or a GHG Protocol Scope 3 disclosure. The international standard EN 15804 breaks that life cycle into modules — and mapping your supply chain against them is where every auverde assessment starts.

A1–A3 Product stage

Raw material supply, transport to manufacturer, and manufacturing itself.

A4–A5 Construction

A1–A3 Product stage

Transport to site and installation or construction processes.

B1–B7 Use stage

A1–A3 Product stage

C1–C4 End of life

Use, maintenance, repair, replacement, refurbishment, and operational energy/water.

C1–C4 End of life

D Beyond the boundary

C1–C4 End of life

Deconstruction, transport, waste processing, and disposal.

D Beyond the boundary

Benefits and loads from reuse, recovery, and recycling potential.

01 Map your product & service supply chain

We map your product supply chain — every supplier, material, process, and mile it takes to bring what you make or deliver into being. This sets the goal and scope of the assessment and tells us exactly which EN 15804 modules and GHG Protocol scopes apply.

02 Support your data collection

Good LCA lives or dies on data quality. We work directly with your suppliers, operations, and finance teams to gather primary data wherever it exists, and apply verified secondary data transparently everywhere it doesn't. No black boxes, no generic assumptions dressed up as precision.

03 Model the full life cycle

Using ISO 14040/44-compliant modelling, we calculate impacts across global warming potential and other environmental indicators for every relevant life cycle stage — cradle to grave, or cradle to gate, whichever answers the question you're actually asking.

04 Report with clarity

You get a report built for two audiences at once: reviewers who need it to survive scrutiny, and decision-makers who need to act on it in five minutes. Every claim is traceable and aligned with the GHG Protocol Product and Corporate Standards.

05 Turn it into an EPD

If you need an Environmental Product Declaration, your LCA is already most of the way there. We prepare EPDs to ISO 14025 and EN 15804, mapped to the relevant Product Category Rules, and support you through independent third-party verification.

06 Find where to improve

A number without a next step isn't useful. We identify your carbon hotspots and hand you a prioritised, practical set of reduction options — the ones that actually move your number, not the ones that just look good in a slide.

From LCA to EPD — Your life cycle assessment is the hard part. The EPD comes next.

An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a standardised, independently verified document that communicates the results of a life cycle assessment to customers, specifiers, and green building rating tools. It's built to ISO 14025 and, for construction products, EN 15804, following the relevant Product Category Rules (PCR).

Because we build every LCA to the same standards an EPD requires, there's no rework and no second consultant needed to translate your data. We take you from raw supply-chain data through to a verifier-ready EPD, using the same primary-data rigour that underpins CIBSE TM65.

Construction products & materials

Scope 3 & product carbon footprints

Construction products & materials

EN 15804-aligned assessments for manufacturers who need to publish EPDs their specifiers and rating tools will actually accept.

Manufactured products & equipment

Scope 3 & product carbon footprints

Construction products & materials

Cradle-to-grave or cradle-to-gate LCA for physical products, wherever they sit in your catalogue.

Scope 3 & product carbon footprints

GHG Protocol-aligned product-level data that feeds directly into your corporate Scope 3 disclosure.

Led by a PhD, not handed to a junior analyst

Dr. Ina Peukes is directly involved in scoping and reviewing your assessment — not a name on a website who delegates the work.

We push for primary data, not database defaults

Wherever your suppliers are willing and able to share real figures, we use them. Secondary data fills the gaps — always documented, so you know exactly what's measured and what's modelled.

Dual expertise: product and service supply chains

Most consultancies map one or the other. We map both, because most real-world footprints span them.

A direct line from LCA to EPD

One team, one dataset, one standard — from first supply-chain interview to a verifier-ready Environmental Product Declaration.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does a life cycle assessment consultant do?

A life cycle assessment (LCA) consultant maps a product or service's environmental footprint across its full life cycle — raw materials, manufacturing, use, and end of life — following ISO 14040 and ISO 14044. auverde also supports data collection, GHG Protocol-aligned reporting, EPD development, and practical carbon reduction recommendations.

What's the difference between an LCA and an EPD?

An LCA is the underlying study that calculates environmental impacts across a product's life cycle. An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a standardised, independently verified document, built to ISO 14025 and EN 15804, that communicates those LCA results publicly. A compliant LCA is required before an EPD can be produced.

What is the GHG Protocol?

The GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard is the most widely used international framework for measuring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions. It defines the three scopes of emissions, sets out methodological requirements, and provides the basis for most national and international disclosure standards.

Is auverde's LCA work aligned with the GHG Protocol?

Yes. Every auverde life cycle assessment is aligned with the GHG Protocol Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard and, where relevant, the Corporate Standard for Scope 3 reporting, alongside ISO 14040 and ISO 14044.

Do you use primary or secondary data?

Both — but we start with primary data wherever it's available, because it produces results you can defend and act on. Secondary data is used transparently, and only where primary data genuinely isn't accessible.

How long does a life cycle assessment take?

Timelines depend on scope and data availability, but most single-product or single-service assessments run 6–10 weeks from kick-off to final report once data collection is underway.

How much does a life cycle assessment cost?

Cost depends on the complexity of your supply chain, the number of products or services in scope, and how much primary data is already available. Book a scoping call and we'll give you a clear, fixed-scope quote — no vague ranges.

Life cycle assessment, led by the person who helped define how it's done.

About Dr Ina Peukes

A life cycle assessment measures impact across the whole story of a product or service.

A1–A3 Product stage

A1–A3 Product stage

A1–A3 Product stage

A4–A5 Construction

A1–A3 Product stage

A1–A3 Product stage

B1–B7 Use stage

A1–A3 Product stage

C1–C4 End of life

C1–C4 End of life

D Beyond the boundary

C1–C4 End of life

D Beyond the boundary

D Beyond the boundary

D Beyond the boundary

From your supply chain to a finished, decision-ready assessment.

01 Map your product & service supply chain

02 Support your data collection

03 Model the full life cycle

04 Report with clarity

05 Turn it into an EPD

06 Find where to improve

From LCA to EPD — Your life cycle assessment is the hard part. The EPD comes next.

Where EPDs get published

Where we specialise

Construction products & materials

Scope 3 & product carbon footprints

Construction products & materials

Manufactured products & equipment

Scope 3 & product carbon footprints

Construction products & materials

Scope 3 & product carbon footprints

Scope 3 & product carbon footprints

Scope 3 & product carbon footprints

Why auverde

Led by a PhD, not handed to a junior analyst

We push for primary data, not database defaults

Dual expertise: product and service supply chains

A direct line from LCA to EPD

Frequently Asked Questions

Ready to see your supply chain clearly?

Tell us about your product, your service, or the EPD you need — we'll come back with a clear, fixed-

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