Using Environmental Product Data in Specification

Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are becoming increasingly important within construction specification and procurement.

As environmental requirements continue to evolve throughout the construction sector, independently verified environmental product data is helping support more informed material selection and product comparison.

EPDs provide transparent lifecycle assessment data using recognised international standards and independently verified methodologies.

Supporting Informed Product Comparison

Environmental Product Declarations help provide a more consistent basis for comparing construction products and systems.

This may include reviewing:

• Global Warming Potential (GWP)

• A1–A3 lifecycle stages

• declared units

• embodied carbon data

• lifecycle environmental impacts

• third-party verification

  
  

Understanding these areas helps support more transparent environmental comparison across construction materials and systems.

Why Verification Matters

Third-party verification is an important part of Environmental Product Declarations.

Independently verified EPDs help provide confidence that lifecycle assessment data has been developed in accordance with recognised standards and methodologies.

Construction EPDs are commonly developed in accordance with:

EN 15804ISO 14025ISO 14040 / 14044

This helps support more consistent environmental reporting and product assessment across the construction sector.

Supporting Specification and Procurement

Environmental product data is increasingly being reviewed during:

• specification development

• procurement processes

• embodied carbon assessments

• sustainability reporting

• material selection

As environmental assessment requirements continue to evolve, transparent environmental data is becoming more important throughout product selection and specification.

Importance of Consistent Comparison

When reviewing EPD data, products should be assessed using comparable declared units, lifecycle stages and assessment boundaries.

This helps support more accurate comparison between products and manufacturers.

Reviewing lifecycle data consistently is important when considering embodied carbon and environmental performance across construction projects.

Supporting Transparent Environmental Reporting

Environmental Product Declarations support greater transparency between manufacturers, specifiers, contractors and procurement teams.

As independently verified environmental data becomes more widely used throughout construction, EPDs are helping support informed specification and product assessment decisions.

Cellecta’s Verified EPD Programme

Cellecta’s Environmental Product Declarations are independently verified in accordance with EN 15804 and ISO 14025.

Current verified EPD coverage includes:

• ScreedBoard® 20 / 28 / 30

• HiDECK Overlay 18 / 28

• HiDECK Structural 25 / 28 / 30

• FIBREfon 8

• FIBREfon 10

  
  

Environmental data includes:

• A1–A3 lifecycle stages

• Global Warming Potential (GWP)

• declared unit comparison

• embodied carbon assessment data

• lifecycle environmental impacts

  
  

For further information regarding Cellecta’s Environmental Product Declarations, contact our Technical Team.

Environmental Product Declarations

Learn more about:

• independently verified EPDs

• lifecycle assessment

• embodied carbon reporting

View Environmental Product Declarations