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Whole life assessment

Effective decision-making requires complete information. Whether you are assessing your investment options, creating a unique selling point, improving product performance or simply better understanding your processing impacts, knowing total costs and benefits from cradle-to-grave provides the clarity to allow the right choices to be made.

Life cycle assessment 
Whole life costing

Life cycle assessment
Governments, industry and public sectors are increasingly using life cycle assessment (LCA) to assist decision-making. Sustain works with manufacturers and industry associations to assess impacts associated with raw material extraction, transport, manufacturing, operations, maintenance and disposal. In addition, Sustain's staff teach LCA methods and applications at the University of Bath.
Sustain provides the following services:

  • Full LCA using specialised software
  • Streamlined LCA assessments
  • Life Cycle Training

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Whole life costing
Making investment decisions based on overall benefits and costs provides a far better method for evaluation than simple upfront capital costs. Long-term running and maintenance costs are uncovered allowing more efficient use of financial resources.

Sustain works with housing and manufacturing to allow enlightened investment by providing the following services: 

  • Assessment of different investment options
  • Analysis of inputs and outputs
  • Net present value calculations
  • Scenario and sensitivity analysis

See our Life cycle assessment presentation

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