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An EPD is the particular type of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), that has been developed to provide environmental information from LCA studies in a common format, based on common rules, known as Product Category Rules (PCR).

EPDs have been used for construction products since the first environmental assessment schemes were developed in the 1990s and an ISO standard for EPD, ISO 14025:2006 sets out the International Standards they should meet.

The European Standard, EN 15804+A1:2013 provides more detailed Core Product Category Rules for EPD that construction products need to follow. Construction Product EPD are published by a Programme Operator such as the International EPD scheme, the Australasian EPD scheme, BRE Global, EPD Norge, UL Environment or IBU using EN 15804 compliant PCR. EPD compliant with EN 15804 can therefore be used alongside each other to make comparisons and evaluations at a building level.

thinkstep have experience of producing construction product EPD with all these EPD Programme Operators.

For compliant EPD, an independent verifier must be used to critically review the LCA and ensure it has followed the PCR. The verifier will see a full LCA report, known as the Background Report and the EPD, to undertake this task, but only the EPD needs to be published, so the detailed and often confidential data provided in the Background Report need not be publicly disclosed.

Construction product EPD are normally modular, so that an EPD for cement can be used with an EPD for Aggregate to produce an EPD for concrete. The construction products industry was actively involved in the development of the International and European Standards for LCA and EPD.

We support you to prepare an EPD for your products according to standards such as EN 15804 and ISO 14025 standards, and have experienced teams delivering construction product and electronics EPDs in Central Europe, the Nordics, the UK, North America and Australasia for a wide range of EPD programmes.