Our Services
Services
Evah Associates develop and deliver Tools and Education in Life Cycle Thinking
- Product Life Cycle Analysis
- Environmental Product Declarations
- Environmental Building Declarations
- Life Cycle Benefit Assessment
- Nature Positive Product Declarations
- LCI Databases — free for study
- Life Cycle Inventory Development
- Product Category Rules
- Building Life Cycle Analysis
- Sustainability Assessments
- Datasets for LCA Software
- Lectures and Training Courses
Life Cycle Analysis
Our LCADesign software consultants applying supply chain and brand-specific LCA, enable design teams to finesse building ecological impacts by real choices in design & procurement.
In 2012 The Evah Institute completed a world first net positive whole building LCI with life cycle impact and benefit assessment for Rengler and Birkeland reviewed in a paper by Raymond Cole.
Life Cycle Benefit Assessment
With Evah Associates, the Institute's Director Delwyn Jones has been developing Sustainability Assessment and Life Cycle Benefit methods since 2010. Since 2010, Associates Shloka Ashar, Mathilde Vlieg and Dr Sharmina Begum, with Delwyn Jones, have developed LCBA methods to quantify nature positive and beyond-zero outcomes. She contributes to beyond-zero impact practice and positive development.
Nature Positive Product Declarations
Evah offers 3rd party certified Net Positive LCA developed off LCBA studies, producing Nature Positive Product Declarations that quantify:
- LCBA compared against ReCiPe, TRACI, PEF and EI99 LCIA methods
- Product EcoFootprint per annual global citizen equivalent
- Circularity % cradle-to-cradle assessments
- Reports of contributions to all 17 UN SDGs
- Sustainability summaries of Air, Water & Climate Security
Building product Life Cycle Impact Assessment is 3rd party verified using ReCiPe, TRACI, PEF and EI99 LCIA methods; EN15804 and ISO 14025 Environmental Product Declarations; and EcoIndicator 99 for LCARate ecolabels.
Software & Database Development
Evah contributes to LCADesign Software Development for whole building LCA. Evah continues to develop and customise LCI plug-ins for users of LCADesign, OpenLCA and SimaPro.
Since 2008 Evah has extended global LCI to include >8000 mostly brand specific C2F operations developed for suppliers seeking certified ecolabels.
As Agents for Australasian OpenLCA and global LCADesign freeware Evah Associates develop 3rd party certified Forestry, Agriculture, Building, Fit-out and Personal Care LCI database plug-ins for users of OpenLCA impact simulation software SimaPro life cycle impact software and LCADesign building ecoprofiling software.
Evah also develops LCIA and LCBA tools and spreadsheets for regenerative versus degenerative design.
LCI Database Bundles
Our Software & Plug-in Databases
As Australasian agents for OpenLCA freeware and global agents for LCADesign freeware Evah Associates develop 3rd party certified LCI database plug-ins e.g. for users of OpenLCA impact modelling software freeware LCADesign building impact modelling software SimaPro life cycle impact software and One-click LCA green building modelling software.
Industry supply-chain LCI since 1995
Our regional, national and global industry supply chain databases developed for projects model best available technology (BAT) and business as usual (BAU) LCI systems since 1995 provide LCI of:
- Acquisition, generation, distribution, supply and use of water, fuel and power utilities;
- Building cladding, concrete, drywall, flooring, framing, glazing and roofing material;
- Chemicals, dyestuff, plasticisers, pigments, surfactants, solvents, and coatings;
- Chloralkali, petrochemical, polymer, extrusions pipe and laminated products;
- Infrastructure, excavation, tunnels, roads, substructures, paving and piping products;
- Mineral, aggregate, metal, extraction, refining, casting, forming, finishing and joining;
- Metals of steel, zinc, aluminium, tin, titanium, rare earths.
Databases sold to clients since 2008
Evah databases sold for use by clients since 2008 model contemporary conventional as well as certified as organic, sustainably managed or ecolabelled:
- Apiarist, beehive, honey, wax, propolis & herbals
- Building, infrastructure, framing, cladding and fitout
- Ceramics, composites, cement, enamels, pipe, sanitary ware, tile product
- Cleaning, detergent, sanitary and disinfectants
- Essential oils, dietary supplements, skin care and health care products
- Farming, fruit, food, fat, starch, cellulose and meats
- Float Glass, fibreglass, bench-tops, back-splash, framing, glazing product
- Foraging, ranching, farming, food, oil, wax fibre and fabric products
- Forestry, log, lumber, timber, fibre, board, paper & oils
- Fit-out, blinds, fabric, flooring, bench-tops, joinery
- Metal, Copper, Tin, Brass, Titanium, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Rare Earths
- Personal care, soap, shampoo, lotions & emollients
- Services, plumbing, tap-ware, drainage, wiring, cabling, lighting, luminaires, switches
- Waste, scrap and recyclables collection, down-cycling, recycling, up-cycling and landfill.
Geographic coverage
These databases model industry supply chains in most exporting territories worldwide including e.g.:
- Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Western and South Australia
- Asia: Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan & Vietnam
- China, Hebei, Guangdong, Shanghai, Beijing Provinces & Inner Mongolia AR
- England, Scotland and Ireland
- Europe e.g. Denmark, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Turkey
- New Zealand, North and South Island
- Canada e.g. British Columbia
- United States e.g. California, South Carolina & Texas
- South Africa, Russia and India in particular sectors.
Databases issued from Berlin
LCI databases for LCIA and LCBA, free and for sale on openLCA Nexus:
- OzLCI2019 — free LCI database
- Inorganic Pigments & Dyes plus Organic Pigments & Dyes
- Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP)
- Masonry, Metals and Minerals (MMM)
Advanced orders for 2027
Evah is now taking advanced orders for 2027 databases:
- Fitout, Forestry and Fibres
- Fodder, Food, Forage, Fruit, Essential Oils and Perfumes
- Regenerative urban supply databases
Historical LCI Database Custodianship
The Evah Institute is a custodian of the Australian LCI built for Sydney Green Games by NSW State Government. This LCI was further developed by the Industry and Federal Government funded Centre for Construction Innovation (CRC CI).
Evah is custodian of CRC CI LCI databases for Californian, Dutch and German supply chains developed with researchers from Stanford U CIFE USA; Building Science & Technology CSTB France; U of Salford BHE UK; VTT Technical Research Centre VTT Finland & TU Delft Netherlands.
Evah continues to develop "OzLCI" BAU, BAT and ecolabelled product supply chain databases. OzLCI is the first 3rd party certified LCI database mapped to GreenStar Australia, BREEAM UK and LEED US systems. OzLCI is now integrated and working in OpenLCA, SimaPro-8 and LCADesign LCIA software.
Evah also develops LCI for LCIA consultants facilitating design team efforts to finesse real-brand building impacts here and overseas.
Education & Training
Evah delivers lectures, training and assessment courses in:
- LCBA for Nature Positive Assessment
- EN15804, ReCiPe and TRACI method EPDs
- EI99 for LCARate
- LCI Databases for use in OpenLCA freeware
- LCADesign BIM-based LCIA software