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Life cycle assessment (LCIA) is an internationally standardized (ISO 14044) environmental accounting tool designed to accurately measure the benefits and tradeoffs of each choice.
Developed by leading scientists from 22 countries to provide a scientific bases for environmental claims and green design, Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) sets the new standard for environmental metrics.
Environmental Performance Declarations by SCS
Declarations are based on life cycle assessment (LCIA), and the Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) "Decalaration" results are not boiled down to a summary score as in some systems. Each indicator is charted on the declaration so that areas for improvement stand out.
Results are not boiled down to a summary score as in some systems. Each indicator is charted on the declaration so that areas for improvement stand out.
Environmental Performance Declarations provide designers, architects,
facility managers and product manufacturers with a new precise method
of determining the environmental performance of building designs,
office equipment and systems, building operations, and transportation
including air travel and work commutes.
SCS Declarations are available for building design and construction, electric power systems, building materials, building products, and workforce and building operations.
Environmental Performance Building Declarations
Building Declarations provide designers and architects a new precise method of determining the environmental performance of building designs.
Declarations are based on life cycle assessment (LCIA), an internationally standardized (ISO 14044) environmental accounting tool which quantifies environmental performance based on measurable biophysical impacts. According to SCS, "LEED-Rated buildings make improvements in some areas, but leave others unexamined. While the building on the right has a higher LEED rating, its total environmental impacts are much greater that those of the lower-rated building on the left. Only a life cycle perspective shows total impacts."
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Examples of SCS Environmental Performance Declaration of LEED Rated buildings. | |
CONTACT:
Scientific Certification Systems
2200 Powell Street, Suite 725
Emeryville, California 94608
Phone: 510-452-8000
http://www.scscertified.com
Forest Conservation Program
SCS developed its Forest Conservation Program in 1991 and has since
emerged as a leading certifier of forest management operations and wood
product manufacturers. In 1996, the Forest
Stewardship Council (FSC) accredited SCS as a certification
body, enabling it to evaluate forests according to the FSC Principles
and Criteria for Forest Stewardship. Through a well-developed network of regional
representatives and contractors, SCS offers timely and cost-effective
certification services around the world.Over
the past 12 years, SCS
has certified more than
23.8 million acres of
natural
forests and plantations
in North, Central, and
South America, Europe,
Asia, and New Zealand
through its
Forest
Management Certification division.
Certified operations
have ranged from small
100-hectare parcels
to 2.5-million hectare
forests. SCS also offers
a group certification
format, such as certified
resource managers, to
lower certification
costs for small landowners.
For each certification
audit, an interdisciplinary
evaluation team of experts
in forest science and
management is assembled
.
Since the mid-1990s, SCS has also offered FSC certification to wood
product manufacturers. Our Chain-of-Custody
Certification division has audited and certified over 500 manufacturers,
distributors, and retailers who make or carry certified wood products.
SCS has issued chain-of-custody certificates in over 29 countries spanning
5 continents.
In
addition to FSC certification,
SCS offers an independent,
non-aligned certification
program for
clients seeking an alternative
to existing, potentially
polarizing certification
schemes. SCS also offers
wood product manufacturers
the option of pursuing single
attribute claims (e.g.,
recycled, recovered,
salvaged wood, etc.)
certification.
Chain-of-Custody Certification
Before a product may carry an FSC or SCS label, all stages of the production, distribution, and sale of the product must be independently evaluated. Wood must be tracked from the certified forest to the finished product.
Through our Chain-of-Custody Certification Division, SCS certifies wholesalers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, who handle wood coming from forests certified according to FSC standards. For FSC Chain-of-Custody certification SCS also provides group and multi-site certification. To become certified, these entities must meet six principles of chain-of-custody, such as maintaining adequate inventory control systems that allow for separation and identification of certified product.
SCS requires the tracking of certified products throughout the production process to ensure the validity of the certified claim. If a wood product carries the FSC or SCS logo, a customer can have confidence that it was made from wood harvested from an FSC-certified forest.
LINK to Forest Conservation Program CERTIFIED CLIENTSFor a searchable database of all forests and products certified according to the rules of the Forest Stewardship Council, visit the Forest Certification Resource Center.
CONTACT:
Scientific Certification Systems
2200 Powell Street, Suite 725
Emeryville, California 94608
Phone: 510-452-8000
http://www.scscertified.com/forestry/index.html
