Create your life cycle assessment and EPD with R<THINK
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R<THINK is a software application that enables companies to create Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for their products, efficiently and according to international standards. With R<THINK you can carry out project-specific calculations as well as calculate the environmental impact of your entire product portfolio. R<THINK was developed by experts following international LCA standards. The intuitive structure enables companies to calculate their LCAs and EPDs cost-efficiently.
The advantages of R<THINK at a glance
- Personal and clear user dashboard
- Intuitive menu structure
- Real-time results to optimise and compare your greenest products
- Extensive report templates and formats
- Automated background reporting function according to ISO 14025 and EN 15804
- Import and export functionalities that simplify your work and save you a lot of time
- Automatically generated supporting (raw) material files that meet reviewer requirements
- Verification function to efficiently perform external verifications
- Fully featured HelpDesk portal
Reliable Data and Standards Compliance
- R<THINK operates strictly in line with recognized international standards such as EN 15804 for construction products and EN 50693 for electrical and electronic products. This ensures that your Life Cycle Assessments and environmental declarations, including Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), are immediately audit ready.
- Greenhouse gas accounting within R<THINK is carried out in accordance with the principles and requirements of the GHG Protocol and ISO 14064-1. This guarantees that your Corporate Carbon Footprint is transparent, comparable, and suitable for audit purposes.
- The platform provides access to a comprehensive set of reliable environmental profiles and emission factors, including construction related raw materials. In addition to established databases such as ecoinvent, these profiles are enhanced with proven, practice oriented data modules.
- Through continuous updates, changes in regulations, methodologies, and databases are promptly integrated into R<THINK. This ensures that you always work with up to date data and remain aligned with current regulatory and market requirements.
Efficiency, Automation, and Ease of Use
- Intuitive user interface and dashboard: Clearly structured real time results for transparent analysis and decision making.
- Automated import and export functions (e.g. Excel interfaces) significantly reduce manual effort and streamline workflows.
- Predefined expert building blocks support consistent modeling and simplify the creation of Life Cycle Assessments.
- Advanced mapping functionalities link your internal raw material data with the R<THINK database, increasing automation while minimizing the risk of errors.
Transparency, Credibility, and Verifiability
- Automatically generated background reports fully comply with ISO 14025, EN 15804, and EN 50693, making them ideal for submission to authorities, certification bodies, customers, and independent reviewers.
- Integrated verification functionality: External verification and audit processes can be initiated and efficiently supported directly within the platform.
- Full access to all input data: You retain complete transparency and control over every assumption and parameter used in the model.
Strategic Value and Competitive Advantage
- Identify environmental hotspots with precision: R<THINK enables targeted identification of hotspots across the product life cycle, including materials, energy, transport, and waste, as well as within your organization’s greenhouse gas footprint. This provides a clear basis for effective optimization measures.
- Strengthen brand credibility: Transparent and verifiable environmental communication enhances brand attractiveness and enables you to demonstrate sustainability performance to customers, investors, and public authorities.
- Drive efficiency and innovation: Using LCAs, EPDs, and Corporate Carbon Footprints as strategic tools helps reduce material costs, unlock efficiency potential in production processes, and stimulate innovation.
- Support reporting and procurement: Corporate Carbon Footprints can be used as reliable evidence for sustainability reporting, ESG disclosure, and participation in public tenders.
Flexible Licensing and Scalability
- Two license options: Business and Professional licenses are available, tailored to the size of your organization and the volume of your projects.
- Expandable functionality: Additional features such as bulk data import, data mapping, template management, and organization wide functions can be added as extensions.
- Always up to date: An integrated update service ensures that databases, methodologies, and system functions remain current at all times.
Corporate Carbon Footprint
Understanding your organization's carbon footprint is the first step towards meaningful change. At Kiwa, we show you how your company will reduce and avoid greenhouse gas emissions in a cost-effective way for the long term. We support you from the calculation to verification to reporting and enable transparent, accurate, scientifically sound communication of your environmental performance - without greenwashing!
Life cycle assessment (LCA)
A Life Cycle Assessment is used to quantify the environmental impacts of processes, products, services or organisations, usually as a basis for other sustainability applications such as Environmental Product Declarations, Product Environmental Footprints and CO2 footprints.
Carbon Footprint of Products (CFP)
A Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) following ISO 14067 records the total CO2 emissions that occur directly or indirectly over the life cycle of a product.
Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)
An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a Type III Environmental Declaration and is regulated by ISO 14025 and EN 15804. It contains quantifiable environmental information on a European harmonized, scientific basis. An EPD is based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) data.
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