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?
Key details
- Date: Tuesday 5th November 2024
- Time: 12:30-14:00
- Online (Zoom)
- Cost: £30+VAT for ASBP and RICS members, £40+VAT for members of partner organisations*, £50+VAT for non members
*Partner organisations include ACAN, AECB, BWF, CIBSE, CIOB, CIRIA, Fit for the Future, FIS, Good Homes Alliance, natureplus, Retrofit Works, Passivhaus Trust, SuperHomes, STBA, The Green Register and Woodknowledge Wales.
Programme
- 12:30Â Â 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
- 12.55Â Â EPD Overview – Jane Anderson, ConstructionLCA and co-author of RICS WLC Professional Statement Â
- 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
- 13.20Â Â Â 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
- 13.45Â Â Q&A and panel discussion
- 14.00Â Â END
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