Quantis

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Institution Description: 

Quantis is a leading life cycle assessment (LCA) consulting firm specialized in supporting companies to measure, understand, and manage the environmental impacts of their products, services and operations. Quantis is a global company with offices in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, and France and employs around 70 people, including several internationally-renowned experts in the LCA field. Quantis offers cutting-edge services in environmental footprinting (including a unique database to manage water footprint, i.e. Quantis Water Database), ecodesign, sustainable supply chains, and environmental communication. Quantis also provides innovative LCA software, Quantis SUITE 2.0. Fuelled by its close ties with the scientific community and its strategic research collaborations, Quantis has a strong track record in applying its expertise to support clients in turning LCA results into decisions and action plans. In addition, Quantis is developing a unique database to managing water footprints. Quantis has a uniquely broad and detailed set of expertise in LCA, including the development of multiple life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) methods and models (IMPACT 2002+, USEtox model, UNEP-SETAC toxicity model, the LCIA-ILCD European Method) with focused applications in innovative technologies.

Involvement in DEMEAU: 

Within the DEMEAU project, Quantis is mainly involved in WP 5.1 “Defining unique selling propositions”, which is concerned with the implementation of Guidelines for LCA of water technologies, the actual application of LCA to assess the environmental performance of selected emerging water technologies, and the improvement of impact assessment in LCA.