Environmental Product Declaration

Are you looking for information about our products and how they impact the
environment across their lifecycle? We’ve got you covered. Download our easy to
use EPD's to get everything you want to know.

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What is an EPD & how do we use it?

An EPD (Environmental Product Declaration) is a technical document that looks at a product’s environmental impact throughout its life. The EPD is the result of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).

It is used for Building Rating Schemes like LEED®, BREEAM® and DGNB. You can also use it to assess the environmental performance of a product or even benchmark it against alternatives.

Our Rockfon EPD’s follows European and International Standards (EN 15804, ISO 14025 for EPD and ISO 14044).

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What is LCA?

The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) quantifies the environmental impacts, resource and energy used in the life cycle of a product, everything from the extraction of raw materials to its end of life.

The LCA is the approach that you need to follow in order to calculate the contribution of the products in terms of waste, energy and environmental impacts during its whole life cycle. These results are documented in the EPD.

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What information can I find in the EPD?

In the EPD you can find information about the assessment, the products included in the declaration and most importantly the impacts that the product has in the environment. These are split into three groups:

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Impact Indicators

These are the quantified impacts of the product to various environmental categories, for example the impact of the product to climate change (GWP), or the impact of the product to the depletion of resources (ADPe) or the impact of the product to the creation of the Ozone Hole (ODP).

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Resource Indicators

These indicators are related to the primary energy consumed in the different parts of the product’s lifecycle and the split between renewable and non-renewable sources. In this category indicators that show the consumption of water and the use of secondary materials, are included.

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Output & Waste Flows

This category documents the materials for recycling and exported energy, i.e. electrical and thermal energy generated and supplied to the net grid are also taken into account. The hazardous and non-hazardous waste amounts are also declared here.

Can I compare EPDs? Some simple reminders.

It is not easy to compare EPDs because there is more to it than simply looking at a product’s results.

Here are some easy tips to help you evaluate and compare different EPDs.

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Life cycle

Consider a product's entire life cycle, taking into consideration its impacts across all the life cycle stages and its expected lifetime.

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Other impacts

Sustainability is not only about the carbon footprint. Consider all the indicators in the EPD and also others that are not found there, like recyclability and recycled content to assess the sustainability of the product.

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Benefits in the building

It is not uncommon for a building material to have multiple product benefits, which can lower the overall footprint of a building (e.g. product with additional or improved functionalities in the building can lower the building’s related impacts). It is important to take those into account before making the final assessment.

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Durability

A robust and long lasting building material will lower general maintenance and repairs, positively reducing its impact over the lifetime of the building.

Where can you find the Rockfon EPD?

You can download our EPD's here or you can also find they are available in third party databases around the world, for example EPD Norge in Norway, INIES in France and SPOT database from UL in North America.

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DGNB

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BREEAM

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