Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) 101 – In collaboration with ASBP
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Overview
Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) provide a standardised way of declaring the impacts of manufacturing, packaging, using and disposing of products. EPD are increasingly sought by designers and the wider supply chain to understand a product’s environmental impact and to calculate embodied and whole life carbon building assessments.
The overarching standard for EPD is EN 15804:2012+A2:2019. EPD are checked and verified by an independent third-party expert and are usually valid for 5 years.
This webinar has several learning outcomes which include:
- You will learn what metrics are included in an EPD – it’s not just carbon!
- What are the top 10 things to look at?
- How many EPD are there and where can you find them?
- Can you make comparisons with other EPDs?
- How do they benefit the manufacturer and how much do they cost?
Programme
- 12:30 Welcome, and Introduction to ASBP – Simon Corbey MRICS, CEO, ASBP
- 12.40 Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Frank Hovorka, MRICS, Board member and Sustainability Chair, RICS
- From top down Nationally Determined Contributions to bottom up measurement
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the built environment – 3 different metrics but the same unit CO2eq/m²/year: In use (present and yearly), Embodied , Life Cycle Assessment (future based on a 50 years lifespan)
- How and what to disclose in an extra financial report : the EU CSRD case
- 12.55 EPD Overview – Jane Anderson, ConstructionLCA and co-author of RICS WLC Professional Statement
- An introduction to EPD
- The International Perspective: where are they used? Will they be mandated?
- Using EPD for Green Claims
- What information do they contain? It’s not just carbon.
- Ten basics to consider; issue date – is it still valid? Functional unit, product description, scope, biogenic carbon, end of life phase, toxicity etc
- How to find and extract data
- Where you locate EPD and how many are there now?
- Selecting data
- How to assess the carbon uncertainty factor according to RICS WLCA.
- Making comparisons with other products
- What emerging technologies and platforms might assist
- An introduction to EPD
- 13.20 The SME manufacturer’s perspective – Mark Lynn, CEO, Thermafleece
- What have been the positives from conducting the EPD?
- How much did they cost?
- How is the biogenic carbon calculated and presented
- 13.45 Q&A and panel discussion
- 14.00 END
Featured Speakers
- Jane Anderson, ConstructionLCA and co-author of RICS WLC
- Simon Corbey MRICS, CEO, ASBP
- Frank Hovorka, MRICS, Board member and Sustainability Chair, RICS
- Mark Lynn, CEO, Thermafleece
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