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Sustainability Assessment

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Except Integrated Sustainability

Tom Bosschaert
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“Except is a group of inspired people that works in a very innovative way. With Except's integrated approach they work on highly relevant issues, because they also take health and happiness into account, next to economy and ecology.”
-- Peter Oei
Program director, SIGN / InnovationNetwork
“If you want to know where the future of integrated sustainable area development is heading, take a look at [Except's] Schiebroek-Zuid project.”
-- Marion Bakker
Advisor Area Development, NL Agency, Government of the Netherlands

How sustainable is your organization? What are the effects of a new policy, or the impact of a product? How can we improve them?

These are central questions we are faced with today. Sustainability is a complex and dynamic issue, for which we develop effective ways to bring clarity and accuracy to the process. While sustainability methods change rapidly, our fundamental approach creates a long lasting, clear and actionable result.

Applications

 For business

Gain an advantage by knowing how sustainability impacts the strategy of your organization, and how smart assessment helps steer quick decisionmaking.

How do the impacts of your services and products impact stakeholders, and how can you influence this process?

 For cities & communities

What are the most effective points of improvement for your neighborhood or building?

What are effective sustainability strategies for urban development? How can you improve the community while advancing the physical appearance and performance of your city?

 For industry

The world of stuff is changing: closed loops, supply chain interactions, new technologies, restrictions on facilities and new market opportunities.

Where can you intervene to improve your performance and prepare for future changes?

 For policy

What effects do policy decisions have when they ripple through society? What sustainability standards should be introduced in different areas of society?

Do they improve the physical performance of society, or unexpectedly cause the adverse effects? Where can policy have the biggest positive impact?

Range and Stakeholders

Except's sustainability assessments stand out by their wide range, efficiency and insight, customized to your particular situation. We include stakeholders wherever we can, and include our clients in every step of the process. 

Physical impacts

Except's custom developed Symbiosis in Development (SiD) methodology works on all layers of society, and assures a complete and thorough sustainability assessment. For physical parameters it uses the ELSIA index, shown below.

SiD evaluates these aspects for both short and long term effects, as well as global versus local impacts. This include matters of climate adaptation, social justice, CO2, circular economies, transport, biodiversity and cultural value.
 

Network impacts

SiD further analyzes sustainability in terms of network impacts, such as resilience, autonomy and transparency. These bring clarity in strategic decision making.

We make use of System mapping to achieve this, which delivers clear visuals about complex delivery chains, societal impacts and system effects.

 

Tailored solutions

Besides evaluating sustainability in a wide variety of applications, we often develop custom sustainability measurement tools for our clients.

These tools enable custom rapid assessment, and the inclusion of sustainability considerations in all parts of an organization's decisionmaking. Examples include:

  • Measuring sustainability for building renovation
  • Creating tools for material selection
  • Measuring sustainability for onshore wind farms
  • Visualizing social justice impacts from waste processing
  • Creating dynamic material flow analysis software


Contact us to talk about possibilities for tailored sustainability tools.

 

Additional tools

A sustainability assessment trajectory can include:

  • Location & facility audits
  • Carbon assessment & Accounting
  • Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
  • Indicator Development
  • Thermal & Energy analysis
  • Biodiversity measurements
  • Stakeholder and production chain analysis


Contact us for more information about these tools.

Examples