Overview
Headquarters
Bangor, Gwynedd
An environmental consultancy with an understanding of all aspects of sustainability. Expertise in evaluating carbon footprints, LCA, EPD. Research and development related to all aspects connected with the use of renewable and sustainable materials derived from bio-resources. Research interests also include biomimetics and self-assembly. Wider issues connected with sustainability, resource utilisation, decoupling of materials use from economic activity. Materials utilisation strategies, industrial ecology, industrial symbiosis, circular economy, minimising dissipation, regenerative economics. Specific expertise: product development, R&D, renewable resources, wood science, wood modification, biopolymers, natural fibres, natural fibre reinforced composites, cellulose nanowhiskers, water vapour sorption, life cycle assessment, sustainable resource use, carbon footprinting, carbon management, environmental product declarations, peer reviewing of LCAs, modelling of carbon flows, storage of atmospheric carbon in long-life products, cascading, end-of-life, embodied energy, capital carbon, embodied carbon, sequestered carbon, materials flow analysis, energy flow analysis, technology appraisals, literature surveys, proposal writing, training courses, learning materials.
