Sustainability Solutions
Transform your environmental commitments into verified achievements with Element's comprehensive Sustainability Solutions. Our experts work alongside you from carbon data verification to sustainable product development, providing hands-on technical guidance at every step. We streamline complex sustainability processes, accelerate your path to compliance, and help you communicate credible results - all through one trusted partner that understands your industry's unique challenges and opportunities.
Sustainability at Element
Today's businesses face unprecedented pressure to prove their environmental commitments are more than just words. Your customers, investors, and employees are demanding transparency and measurable improvement in your environmental impact. The risks of getting it wrong range from reputation damage to regulatory penalties, while getting it right offers competitive advantage and business growth. Element bridges the gap between your sustainability ambitions and credible results, providing the data, verification, and expertise needed to turn environmental challenges into business opportunities. We help you prove what you're achieving now and strategically plan what comes next.
What Can Element Offer You For Sustainability Solutions?
Sustainability Assurance and Verification Services
Sustainability Assurance and Verification Services
We work with businesses to provide sustainability assurance to verify, demonstrate and achieve environmental performance improvements and identify and manage sourcing risks throughout supply chains.
Our services include:
- ISO 14001 - Environmental Management System certification
Why choose this solution? Our third-party verification gives organizations and their stakeholders confidence in the data and ensures compliance with both environmental policies and regulatory or legal responsibilities.
Sustainable Monitoring and Compliance Services
Sustainable Monitoring and Compliance Services
We share our expertise with customers to help optimize compliance processes for emissions and contaminants by identifying and qualifying the risk factors involved. By measuring discharges to air, water, and land, and monitoring levels of toxic build-up over time we can help you mitigate risk to the environment and protect your operations and reputation.
Our services include:
- Greenhouse Gases Emissions Testing – We can test from a point source (vent/chimney) or emissions from an area, task or process. Accurate data for Carbon Footprint calculations.
- Environmental Compliance – Fully accredited testing for adherence to environmental regulations.
- Air Quality – Monitoring for a wide variety of pollutants for different applications.
Why choose this solution? We help you create robust plans to measure and monitor greenhouse gases, providing a solid foundation for carbon footprinting while conducting detailed site appraisals for contamination risks using specialized BARGE and FOREhST methods. Our cross-sector expertise ensures accurate environmental performance monitoring, helping you protect the environment and manage health and safety requirements at both local and global levels.
Sustainable Development Services
Sustainable Development Services
Our experts work with customers on the life cycle assessment of R&D initiatives to get products to market quickly, while protecting investments. By collaborating with our experts in the early phase of projects, we can help businesses balance the sustainability benefits of finished products against any specific impacts of new raw materials or associated value chains. Our experts are also well placed to optimize the value and increase the efficiency of your products and assets while in-service.
Our services include:
- Virtual Testing - reducing product development lifecycle time, cost and demand on resources
- Analysis of Operational Data - understanding where energy use can be optimized
- Development of Predictive Capability - providing better understanding of asset operation
- Combination of Data Analysis and Predictive Capability - allowing for planned maintenance of assets and reducing unnecessary downtime
Why choose this solution? Our team drives technological development within your organization through initiatives like qualifying composite materials for fuel efficiency, implementing carbon capture technology, and developing software to understand product lifecycles without prototypes. We support your environmental goals by reducing fugitive GHG emissions, facilitating transitions to electrification or hydrogen fuels, and providing end-to-end project support from conception through design, sourcing, testing, and market delivery.
Standards we test to
- ISO 14064-1 (Methodology for identifying and measuring carbon emissions)
- ISO 14064-2/3 (Verification of GHG emissions at project or organizations level)
- PAS 2060 (Carbon Neutrality)
- ISO 14001 (Environmental Management System)
- ISO 50001 (Energy Management)
- Forest Stewardship Council™ scheme (FSC™)
- Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI)
Your Challenges, Our Solutions
Proving Environmental Credibility
Navigating Regulatory Compliance
Balancing Sustainability & Growth
Tracking Net Zero Progress
Global Environmental Reach
Forward-Thinking Solutions
Proven Industry Expertise
Trusted Verification Partner
1000+environmental compliance clients
8,500experts
190+years
30+countries with
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Carbon Footprint Verification and why is it important?
Carbon Footprint Verification independently confirms the accuracy of your emissions data, forming the foundation for your sustainability strategy. This verification provides credibility when communicating results to stakeholders, helps identify carbon reduction opportunities, reduces risks of inaccurate reporting, and avoids greenwashing claims while improving your corporate reputation.
How does Projection Zero help businesses achieve net zero targets?
Projection Zero guides you through four key steps: verifying your carbon footprint, building a targeted plan, monitoring progress through our digital platform, and communicating results with confidence. The platform's predictive modeling shows instantly how business decisions will impact key metrics like carbon equivalence, operational expenditure, and strategic goals, providing clear visibility on your path to net zero.
What sustainability services does Element offer for product development?
We collaborate with you early in R&D to balance sustainability benefits against any impacts of new materials or value chains. Our services include virtual testing to reduce development time, operational data analysis to optimize energy use, predictive capability for better asset management, and combined analytics for planned maintenance—all supporting sustainable innovation while protecting your investment.
How does Element help with regulatory compliance for emissions?
Our experts help create robust plans to measure and monitor greenhouse gases in line with national legislation and international standards. We provide fully accredited testing for environmental regulations compliance, air quality monitoring for various pollutants, and site-specific appraisals of potential risks from land contamination.
Related Services
Environmental Testing Services
Our experts and network of accredited laboratories offer environmental testing services for water, soil, sediments, waste, air quality, emissions and more. Learn More.
Hydrogen Testing
Element performs hydrogen testing, including hydrogen piping system and pipeline testing according to ASME B31.12, the most comprehensive standard currently available for designing steel piping systems that carry gaseous hydrogen.
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Testing
Testing services related to the corrosion issues of Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCS/CCUS). We help manage challenges with polymeric materials and composites in service in supercritical CO2 (scCO2) environments.