Sustainability
Department

Our Sustainability Department supports companies, research centers and public organizations in advancing their environmental performance and achieving sustainable development goals. We provide expert services across all stages — from assessing environmental impacts and improving product design, to obtaining certifications and implementing circular and efficient solutions.

Our services include:

Life Cycle Sustainability

At Contactica, we conduct sustainability studies of products, services and organizations by applying the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, in accordance with international standards ISO 14040 and ISO 14044, as well as the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodological framework established by the European Commission.

We provide comprehensive sustainability assessments covering the three pillars: environmental (LCA), economic (LCC – Life Cycle Costing) and social (S-LCA – Social Life Cycle Assessment). Depending on the needs of each project, we can perform a full integrated analysis or focus on one or more of these dimensions.

In addition to quantifying impacts, we identify opportunities for improvement and support compliance with regulatory and market requirements.

Certification & Ecolabelling

At Contactica, we support companies in obtaining environmental certifications and ecolabels that provide real value to their products and services, ensuring methodological rigor and international recognition.

These include Environmental Product Declarations (EPD), carbon footprint assessments (ISO 14064, ISO 14067, GHG Protocol, PAS 2050, MITECO) and water footprint assessments (ISO 14046).

Process Simulation

At Contactica, we offer customized process simulation and optimization services aimed at improving the technical, economic and environmental performance of technologies under development or at the industrial scale-up stage.

Early-stage simulation enables the design, analysis and optimization of chemical, physical or energy processes without the need for complex and costly experimental testing. Moreover, simulation provides a deep understanding of the system, helping to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies or risks prior to real implementation, and allows for the integration of multiple operations to achieve global optimization in terms of resources, energy and sustainability.

Our services include:

  • Literature review and state-of-the-art analysis of the process or technology.

  • Process modelling and simulation using specialized software.

  • Technical feasibility studies, sensitivity analysis and evaluation of key parameters.

  • Identification of optimization strategies (yields, energy consumption, process integration, etc.).

  • Economic feasibility analysis.

  • Preliminary environmental assessment through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), carbon footprint and/or water footprint.

  • Support in scale-up and technology transfer, ensuring consistency between the simulated model and the real system.

Ecodesign & Optimization

At Contactica, we have developed an innovative ecodesign tool that helps reduce environmental impacts, optimize resource use and improve efficiency from the earliest stages of product or process development.

This tool integrates:

  • Process simulation and modelling, to generate reliable virtual data in early design stages.

  • Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC), to evaluate environmental impacts and costs from the design phase.

  • Optimization based on mathematical algorithms, which automatically explore multiple scenarios to determine optimal design and operation configurations.

This tool enables early optimization of environmental and economic performance, accelerating development and reducing time and costs.

Training

At Contactica, we offer hands-on training in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Costing (LCC) and Social Life Cycle Assessment (sLCA). Our sessions combine essential theory with practical exercises and the use of leading tools such as SimaPro and openLCA, and databases such as ecoinvent and the Social Hotspot Database (SHDB).