I'm an approved EPD verifier and certified LCA practitioner. I review the work against the standard and tell you plainly where it holds and where it does not.
Request a reviewThe risk is rarely a lost contract you can point to. More often it is the customer, the procurement panel, or the specifier who looks at your numbers, decides they are not credible or not competitive, and moves on without telling you. You do not get the meeting or make the shortlist. The bar for what counts as credible keeps rising, and work that sat above average a few years ago now reads as the minimum.
Independent review is how you clear that bar in a way a buyer trusts on sight. A verification or critical review from someone with no stake in the result tells them the work has been checked and holds, which is the difference between a claim they take on faith and one they can act on.
There is a second cost in getting it wrong. A credential that has to be withdrawn, a claim that has to be pulled, or a position you cannot yet evidence all carry a reputational hit, and rebuilding from there takes far longer than catching the problem in review would have.
The credibility of an LCA or an EPD does not come from the people who produced it. It comes from an independent set of eyes, and that review is built into how the work is meant to reach the public.
Having an LCA independently reviewed before it goes public is good practice, and in one case it is mandatory. When the study makes a comparative assertion that will be disclosed to the public, ISO 14044 requires a critical review by interested parties.
An EPD goes further again. It cannot be published until an approved verifier has checked it against ISO 14025 and the relevant standard, and that verifier cannot be the firm that built it.
When the result is going to a regulator, a customer, a procurement panel, or the market, it has to survive someone with no stake in the answer looking closely, and that independent review is the work I do.
I co-founded Edge Impact in 2008 and handed over the CEO role in early 2024, the year it was sold to RSK Group. I kept doing the technical work the whole way through, so I start from why you invested in LCA and EPD work in the first place, as well as the technical detail and the standards behind it.
The review work has covered ASX-listed companies, Fortune 500 manufacturers, government agencies and national industry bodies across Australia, New Zealand, the Americas and Asia. I have also sat on the drafting side: on Standards Australia's EV-003 committee I worked on ISO 14020, 14021 and 14024, the standards that govern environmental claims and labels.
You get a fixed scope and a fixed fee, with a committed and realistic timeline you can count on.
My job is to get the work to where it stands up, with constructive and precise feedback, not to simply hand out a pass or a fail. No study arrives ready to sign off, so I would rather get involved early and work through the review with your team than mark it at the end. The independence stays intact, and so does the shared goal: a result that holds up when a regulator, a customer, or a competitor looks closely.
EPD verification starts at $5,000 for one background LCA report and one EPD verified. The price rises with the number of EPDs, and the per-report cost comes down at volume. As a guide, a background report with 10 EPDs is around $12,500. These are indicative, with a fixed quote for each engagement.
An LCA review is priced on what it involves. A product LCA or a carbon footprint report sits at the lower end, a comparative LCA higher, more so when I am leading or sitting on a review panel.
I work on a fixed fee and fixed scope, agreed upfront.
Fees exclude GST.
EPDs against ISO 14025 and EN 15804, or the relevant Product Category Rules. LCA critical review under ISO 14040 and ISO 14044, including comparative assertions disclosed to the public. Carbon and embodied-carbon work against the applicable method.
Yes. That is the point. ISO 14025 requires verification by an independent party, and the firm that built the EPD cannot be that party. I review work produced elsewhere.
Not as part of this service. If you need the EPD or LCA built, that is delivery work and I will point you to Edge Impact as a partner. My role here is the independent review of work done elsewhere, so the independence stays intact.
It depends on complexity, and the turnaround is agreed and fixed when we confirm scope, so you can plan around it.
EPD verification starts at $5,000 for a background report and one EPD, rising with the number of EPDs (around $12,500 for a background report and 10 EPDs, indicative). LCA reviews are priced by scope. Either way, a fixed fee and fixed scope, agreed upfront.
You get the findings stated plainly: what holds, what does not yet, and what would need to change to get there. The point is to get the work to a standard I can sign off, which usually means working through the gaps together rather than a single pass or fail at the end.
Yes. I am an approved EPD verifier and a certified LCA practitioner. I sit on the Steering Committee of the UNEP Life Cycle Initiative and on the Technical Advisory Group at EPD Australasia, and I am a past president of ALCAS.
If I have a commercial interest in anything a review touches, I will tell you before we start. I am a Founder and Senior Advisor at Edge Impact, and my other current roles are listed on my About page.
A verification statement or a critical review report, with the findings stated plainly enough to act on.
Tell me what you are reviewing and against which standard, and I will come back with scope, fee, and a turnaround.
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