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Services and Tools
Because your circumstances and challenges are unique, SOFIES does not offer you a particular “off-the-shelf” product or service. Instead, we will draw upon our top-notch multidisciplinary experience and technical expertise to design results-focused solutions to meet your needs.
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PLANNING |
- Economic and industrial metabolism studies based on material flow analysis (MFA) for a territory or a company
- Environmental, social and economic impacts assessments based on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach
- Stakeholders’ analysis for the implementation of participative processes
- Identification of the potential for efficient and local use of resources including industrial symbiosis (by-product exchanges and opportunities for sharing supply and treatment facilities)
- Analysis of ethical stakes and position identification in terms of environmental justice and social equity
- Technology surveys and forecasts allowing to anticipate evolution and to improve innovation
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- Regional development strategies according to integrated resources management principles
- Planning and management for industrial estates (e.g. eco-industrial parks)
- Developpment of road maps (e.g. continuous improvement, environmental impacts reduction strategies)
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COMMUNICATION |
IMPLEMENTATION |
- Workshop organisation about industrial ecology and its methodologies
- Written content of websites, brochures
- Awareness campaigns for various target audiences
- Development of communication strategies to valorize experiences and results
- Promotion of good practices about a territory, a company or a technology
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- Support to public authorities in the implementation of Local Agenda 21
- Efficient valorization channels investigation for by-products, wastes and resources (industrial symbiosis)
- Physical accounting and key environmental performance indicators establishment
- Projects and participative processes management and coordination on a given territory
- Professional networks facilitation
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