Environmental Product Declarations
EPDs are growing in popularity within the construction industry as a standardised way of providing information on the environmental impact of product throughout its entire life and compare the impacts of products within a construction project.
How do EPD’s Work?
An EPD is a communication tool based on a product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). It tells the environmental story of a product over its life cycle in a clear, simple format suitable for many audiences. An EPD is science-based, independently verified and publicly available. EPDs are often compared to the nutrition labels on food products.
There are EPDs for many products including building materials, fabrics, food, consumer goods and even trains.
If you are a manufacturer, an EPD will help you communicate your product’s environmental impact. If you want to buy a product, an EPD contains environmental information you can rely on.
Verified EPDs
A Roadstone solution for understanding product and project carbon emissions.
Roadstone takes a whole life approach to solution development and product optimisation, which considers the impact of products over their entire life cycle, from extraction, production and transport to performance in use, maintenance and final recycling or re-use.
For RMC & Asphalt products Roadstone can provide a report detailing the cradle to gate (A1-A3) and transport to site (A4) product and project carbon footprint information including the carbon savings from using our sustainable solutions. This report can be issued at design or tender stage, during project or end of project to give customers a detailed insight into the embodied carbon.
In addition, Roadstone can collaborate with customers to gain a deeper insight into the embodied carbon in products due to the construction (A5), in use (B1-B7) and end of life (C1-C4) impacts relating to product application specific to the project.
This solution allows customers to compare alternative products and services, actively seek lower carbon alternatives and understand the impact of using recycled and secondary materials.
