SUSTAINABILITY SERVICES - Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) I Life Cycle Assessments I Life Cycle Costing I Ecodesign I ...

Our team has vast experience in the following domains:

-Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA): Blue Synergy can determine the need of an EIA under the regulations, the relevant aspects to be covered in the study to tailor it to the organizational/regulatory needs, can perform baseline studies to evaluate the current scenario, to identify the potential environmental, economic and social aspects and to provide support in writing Environmental Statements.

-Life Cycle Assessments: Blue Synergy´s solutions range from Screening-Level LCA/Hotspot Analysis, single products or multiple/comparative LCA. Blue Synergy can also recommend an appropriate type and level of assessment, ensure that the assessment and related documentation will cope the analysis of relevant stakeholders, including consumers and regulatory bodies, and complies with ISO requirements related to data collection, modelling, interpretation and reporting.

-Life Cycle Costing: Life Cycle Costing is a means of estimating all the costs involved in procuring, operating, maintaining, and ultimately disposing a product throughout its life. Through the implementation of this methodology Blue Synergy experts can trace costs and revenues of a cost object over several calendar periods. This enables organizations to make decisions on acquisition, maintenance, refurbishment, or disposal to be made in the light of full cost implications.

-Ecodesign: The services include to accompany organizations in the implementation of ecodesign principles, caring for the business profitability. This support is provided along the whole process, including the analysis & diagnosis of the product value chain, identification of hot spots where improvement is possible from a sustainability perspective, the design of the product to align it with the organizational objectives and the efficient promotion of green products.

-Increase resources efficiency and waste valorisation: Blue Synergy can guide organizations towards increased resources efficiency, including raw materials, materials, energy, water, trough the analysis of the value chain, detection of hot-spots where there is room for improvement and innovation, design of a Zero-Waste roadmap and full support during the implementation stage. -Guidance towards ISO 14001 accreditation: Blue Synergy´s guidance includes the design of an efficient and effective plan for EMS development and a clear marked path towards certification, through the definition of the project scope, facilitation of efficient planning activities, responsibilities allocation and evaluation of the results.

-Sustainable Investments & Business case development: The service include the advice & support during the whole process, from the design of a sustainable business case and inputs provision, identification of the project strengths and weaknesses, project advice through its whole life cycle, business case review, risks assessments of inaction on sustainability, technology transfer, identification of funding & exploitation strategies and investment evaluation.