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ARGE EXPLAINS EPDS
Environmental Product Declarations
(EPDs) are the most effective way
for communicating a product’s
verifiable and accurate environmental
information, and following the
introduction of the new Construction
Products Regulation (CPR) these are
becoming increasingly imperative.
EPDs are designed to offer a coherent
expression of data throughout the life
cycle of a product, but this requires that
all underlying information is consistent
and comparable. BS EN 15804:2012
provides the framework for ensuring
all EPDs of construction and hardware
products are derived and presented in a
harmonised way.
Providing a means for developing EPDs,
BS EN 15804:2012 is part of a suite of
standards that are intended to assess the
sustainability of construction works and
define core product category rules (PCR)
for Type III environmental declarations.
This includes describing which stages
of a product’s life cycle are considered
in the EPD and how a Life Cycle
Inventory, which underlies an EPD, is
calculated. Importantly, it also defines
the conditions under which hardware
products can be compared, which
is crucial for specifiers, as well as for
manufacturers.
In practice the information on an EN
15804 compliant product or one with an
EPD may look very different. Whilst, the
information is fixed by the standard’s
requirements its format is not, therefore
ARGE’s generic EPDs, which it plans to
produce, can be used across a range of
applications and support Pan-European
markets.
EPDs will have some similarities, for
example the same 24 environmental
indicators that will be consistently laid
out in tables using the same 17 life cycle
modules.
The introduction of EN 15804 and EPDs
across Europe, combined with EN 15978,
which provides the rules for evaluating
and reporting the whole life impact of a
building over its lifetime, is crucial for
those supplying to and operating in the
construction industry. Now that these
standards are available together, Europe
should be able to adopt a consistent
method of measuring and reporting on
the impacts of embodied carbon across
the construction industry.
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