We work as a specialist technical delivery partner for sustainability consultancies, environmental firms, architecture and engineering practices, and certification laboratories producing verified, programme operator–registered EPDs under your brand, for your manufacturing clients, on commercially straightforward subcontracting terms.
The pattern is consistent across firms in the sustainability, environmental, and architecture sectors. A manufacturing client often one you have worked with for years on EHS compliance, sustainability strategy, or planning asks whether you can help them with an EPD. Maybe it is a Buy Clean requirement on a state infrastructure contract. Maybe it is a specification from an architect on a LEED project. Maybe it is a questionnaire from a large corporate customer asking for Scope 3 carbon data from their supply chain.
You understand what an EPD is. You understand why the client needs one. But your team does not have the LCA software licences, the ecoinvent database subscriptions, the hands-on practitioner experience with specific Product Category Rules, or the established verifier relationships needed to deliver one to a standard that will survive independent review. Recruiting a specialist LCA practitioner takes time, costs money, and assumes a volume of future EPD work you cannot yet guarantee.
So the work gets referred elsewhere, declined, or delivered inadequately using a template that was not built for the product. Every one of those outcomes represents lost revenue, a weakened client relationship, and a gap in your service offering that competitors can exploit. The opportunity cost of not being able to say yes is real and growing as EPD demand accelerates.
"We partner with sustainability and environmental consultancies to deliver EPD and LCA services on their behalf your client relationship, your brand, your fee structure, our technical expertise and end-to-end verified delivery."
Architecture firms use specialist structural and geotechnical engineers. Law firms use specialist barristers and counsel. Environmental consultancies subcontract specialist ecology, noise, and air quality work routinely. Delivering specialist technical output through a delivery partner under your own brand is not unusual. It does not need to be disclosed to your client unless you choose to do so.
We are not looking for firms who might, one day, have a client who might need an EPD. We are looking for firms who are already being approached by manufacturing clients about EPDs and who want a credible, reliable way to respond without building that capability from scratch.
The primary fit. You have manufacturing and developer clients navigating Buy Clean compliance, LEED projects, and corporate carbon commitments. You understand the sustainability landscape but EPD and LCA is not your technical depth. We provide the delivery capability so you can say yes and deliver well without building an LCA team.
Your EHS, regulatory compliance, and environmental advisory clients are increasingly being asked about EPDs by their own customers and procurement contacts. A delivery partnership makes EPD part of your service offer rather than a referral that sends a client to a competitor. The EHS and environmental consulting background you already have is a natural lead-in to EPD conversations.
Your sustainability practice sits exactly where EPD demand is concentrated LEED project specifications, embodied carbon assessments, and manufacturer advisory work. We can support you from both directions: EPD production for manufacturers in your project supply chains, and EPD procurement support for your design team's specification process.
You have the manufacturer trust, the testing and certification infrastructure, and the client relationships that come from being the firm that validates product performance. EPD is the logical adjacent service and your clients are already asking whether you offer it. We provide the LCA expertise that completes the picture without you needing to build a new practice area from scratch.
Your LEED and WELL advisory work sits at the intersection of sustainability performance and product specification precisely where EPD demand is most concentrated. Supporting manufacturers in your project supply chains with EPD production deepens your client relationships on both sides of the design process and adds a billable service line to your LEED engagement model.
Member manufacturers need EPDs for regulatory compliance, Buy Clean qualification, and competitive positioning but the cost of individual EPDs for each member company is prohibitive. A Programme EPD developed through the association, covering the product range of the full membership, is dramatically more cost-efficient and positions the association as a substantive resource to members at the moment EPD demand is accelerating.
The most productive prospective partner conversations are those where, in the first call, the principal can name a specific manufacturing client who has already raised EPDs. That specificity tells us the demand is real and immediate not theoretical and future. It also tells us that the first engagement, the one that proves the model on both sides, is within reach rather than months away. If your firm is in that position, we would like to speak with you soon.
We keep the commercial structure of the partnership deliberately straightforward. No complex revenue shares, no exclusivity clauses, no minimum volume requirements to begin. A fixed subcontracting fee per engagement, agreed upfront before the project starts.
A manufacturing client approaches your firm about EPDs whether for a Buy Clean contract requirement, a LEED project specification, a corporate customer questionnaire, or proactive market positioning. You scope the requirement with your client and agree whether you will proceed. This is entirely your client relationship at every stage.
You share the brief with us product type, intended programme operator, timeline, and any specific requirements. We confirm the delivery scope, the applicable PCR, the timeline, and our subcontracting fee within two business days. You build that fee into your client proposal at your own margin. No surprises, no moving goalposts.
We manage the complete EPD production process primary data collection, LCA modelling, PCR compliance review, EPD report production, verification submission and management, and programme operator registration. We keep you informed at every stage and flag issues promptly. You are never left wondering where the project stands.
The verified, published EPD is delivered under your brand. Your client receives a publicly registered, independently verified Environmental Product Declaration that meets all applicable programme operator, regulatory, and LEED requirements. You invoice your client at your agreed rate. The relationship is yours. The work is done.
We are entirely flexible. Some partners prefer to keep the subcontracting arrangement confidential, presenting the EPD as their own firm's work, which is entirely standard and commercially acceptable. Others prefer to introduce us as a named specialist technical partner, which in some contexts actually increases client confidence by signalling that specialist expertise has been brought in for a technically demanding piece of work.
We carry professional indemnity insurance covering our technical LCA delivery work. The primary contractual and professional liability to your client sits with your firm as the named consultant; our liability sits to you under the subcontract terms. We recommend that partner firms notify their PI insurer when adding EPD advisory to their service offer.
No, there is no obligation to disclose this. Subcontracting specialist technical work is standard professional services practice, and your firm takes professional responsibility for the output as the named consultant. You decide how you represent the arrangement; we follow your instruction. Some partners do choose to be transparent with clients, framing it as bringing in specialist EPD practitioners for technically demanding work, and find that this actually strengthens rather than undermines client confidence. It depends on the client and the relationship, and it is entirely your call on every engagement.
This is a legitimate question and worth preparing an honest, confident answer to. Your position is that your firm is now offering EPD services through a delivery partnership with an established specialist LCA practice in exactly the same way that you might bring in a specialist acoustic consultant or ecologist for project-specific work. You are not claiming to have built the LCA model in-house; you are offering a managed EPD service with specialist technical delivery, which is what your client actually needs.
We can provide you with reference EPDs we have produced published, independently verified, and searchable on programme operator databases that you can reference as evidence of the technical quality of our delivery. The published EPD is the proof of capability that matters most; it is independently verifiable by anyone who looks.
We work with NSF International and UL Environment as programme operators, are familiar with the PCR frameworks for the primary construction material categories covered by US Buy Clean legislation and LEED credits, and work with recognised US-approved verifiers on every project. The EPD output is ISO-compliant, independently verified, and published through a US-recognised programme operator what matters to your client is the technical quality and the publishable outcome, not where the model was built.
Our background in EN 15804 the European EPD standard is actually a methodological strength in this context. EN 15804 is more rigorous than many US PCR frameworks in its requirements for impact category coverage, background database transparency, and scenario documentation. Practitioners formed on EN 15804 typically find US PCR requirements well within their existing methodological range.
Yes — you should notify your PI insurer when adding any material new service category to your practice. This is standard professional responsibility, not a significant undertaking. EPD advisory typically falls within existing professional services coverage without difficulty, and the addition is usually processed as a straightforward notification or minor policy endorsement rather than requiring a new policy or substantial premium adjustment.
We can provide a concise description of the service covering the ISO standards it operates under, the mandatory third-party verification requirement, the data warranty structure, and the respective roles of your firm and ours which you can share with your insurer or broker to support the notification.
That is a reasonable starting point. The most useful first step is usually a briefing call where we understand your client base and identify where EPD demand is most likely to emerge based on the sectors your clients operate in, whether Buy Clean legislation affects their procurement markets, and whether LEED projects feature in their work.
We can also help you draft a short client communication to test appetite among your existing manufacturing contacts. We write the draft; you review, personalise, and send it under your own name and signature.
We charge a fixed subcontracting fee per EPD engagement, agreed at the outset of each project based on product complexity, required lifecycle scope, and programme operator requirements. You price your client proposal independently, building in your margin at whatever level reflects your client relationship, the complexity of the engagement, and your firm's standard rates. There are no revenue shares, no retainers, no minimum volume commitments, and no exclusivity obligations.
A typical first engagement is a single-product EPD for a construction material concrete, masonry, glass, or insulation are the most common first-time cases. The full process from initial scoping to published EPD runs twelve to sixteen weeks in most cases, with the primary data collection phase and verification phase accounting for the majority of the timeline.
If your firm is already being asked about EPDs and you are uncertain how to respond or if you can already name a client who has raised it, we would like to have a conversation. Thirty minutes. No presentation. Straight answers.
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