What is an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)?
An EPD is a comprehensive report disclosing the environmental impacts of a product over its cradle-to-grave life cycle. It is an internationally recognised, single, comprehensive disclosure of a product’s environmental impact throughout its life cycle. EPDs provide quantified environmental data using predetermined parameters and, where relevant, additional environmental information.
Why is an EPD important?
Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are an important validation tool for Kingspan Insulation to provide transparent data about the environmental sustainability of our products. It is also important for us as a supplier to the construction industry to enable specifiers to make informed purchasing decisions. For Kingspan Insulation, obtaining an EPD is simply not the end goal but more so a tool to assess the entire lifecycle of our products and to thus make decisions on how we can improve the environmental footprint of our products. EPDs allow us to see any major hotspots in the lifecycle of our products and from there we can improve processes to reduce these areas. Finally, EPDs allow Kingspan to highlight the reductions in environmental product impacts caused by the extensive work that is being done in the ‘Planet Passionate’ long term sustainability strategy.
