The International EPD System is owned and operated by EPD International AB. The program is operated in accordance with a.o. ISO 14025, ISO/TS 14027, ISO 14040, ISO 14044 and ISO 14067. For construction products, our EPD programme also complies with the European standard EN 15804 (A1 and A2) as well as ISO 21930.
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EPD Types | EPD InternationalEnterprise Products Partners LP (EPD) Price & News - Google FinanceEPD International AB | EPD InternationalThe International EPD System is the world’s first and longest operational EPD programme, originally founded in 1998 as the Swedish EPD System by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) and industry.
Third-party verified EPDs based on ISO 14025 and EN 15804 are published against a commercial fee. In addition, supplemental environmental communication services, such as but not limited to Carbon Footprint Declarations (CFP) according to ISO 14067, ECO Platform EPD registrations and digital/machine-readable datasets developed with so-called EPD tools for use in third party software solutions are on offer.
- The International EPD System is the inventor of the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) and the Product Category Rules (PCR).
- The International EPD System is open to private and public organizations from most countries, and any product category. As of today, +400 organisations from almost 50 countries publish their EPDs via the programme.
- The International EPD System has a global service network (independent licensees) with exclusive representations in the following territories: Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, India, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam) and Turkey. All other nations are managed via EPD International AB from our offices in Sweden.
- Strategic partnerships with LCA-consultants, verifiers and accredited verification bodies
- EPDs with global validity accepted in various Green Building Schemes (e.g. BREEAM, LEED), Building Information Management (BIM) software for building LCAs and Green Public Procurement.
The Technical Committee's responsibility is to advise and assist the EPD Secretariat.
The Technical Committee:
- acts as the PCR review panel for the review and approval of final draft PCRs,
- proposes a general LCA methodology for declarations and suggest measures for the further development of technical and LCA-oriented issues within the framework of the programme,
- supports the Secretariat in technical issues,
- considers applications and approve LCA/EPD/PCR experts to act as individual verifiers and suggest measures for the surveillance of their competences, and
- performs sample checks to ensure that verifications done by individual verifiers are carried out according to the General Programme Instructions.
Our Technical Committee shall operate according to specified routines and is currently staffed with the following independent members:
- Paola Borla (Chair), who is also a member of our International Advisory Board, Professional Consultant, Life Cycle Engineering, Italy.
Product category expertise: Construction products, Food & beverages, Fuels & chemical products, Glass & plastic products, Paper products. - Andrew Norton, Director, Renuables, United Kingdom. Product category expertise: Food & beverages, Construction products, Infrastructure & buildings, Furniture & other goods, Glass & plastic products, Paper products.
- Barbara Nebel, President of Life Cycle Association New Zealand, Managing Director of thinkstep Australia and New Zealand.
Product category expertise: Food & beverages, Construction products, Infrastructure & buildings, Furniture & other goods, Textiles, footwear & apparel, Paper products, Services. - Bárbara M. Civit, Researcher, UTN FRM – CONICET, Argentina.
Product category expertise: Food & beverages, Mining products, Packaging products, Construction products, Tourism services. - Claudia A. Peña, Director of Sustainability at ADDERE Research & Technology, Co-Director HUB EPD Latin America.
Product category expertise: Minerals & basic ores, Metal products, Construction products. - Diogo Aparecido Lopes Silva, Professor, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil.
Product category expertise: Manufacturing processes, Wood and Wood-based products, Biomass and Bioenergy. - Gorka Benito Alonso, Project manager, IK Ingenieria, Spain.
Product category expertise: Construction products, Vehicles & transport equipment, Furniture, Infrastructure & buildings, Metal, plastic, or glass products. - Hüdai Kara, Managing Director, Metsims Sustainability Consulting, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
Product category expertise: Textiles, footwear & apparel, Metal products, Construction products. - Julie Sinistore, Senior Project Director, WSP, USA.
Product category expertise: Food, agriculture, electronics/IT, apparel, financial and construction goods and services. - Lars-Gunnar Lindfors, Senior Advisor, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute Ltd., Sweden.
Product category expertise: Electricity, Furniture & other goods, Paper products, Fuels & chemical products, Metal products, Machinery & equipment, Construction products. - Maurizio Fieschi, Professional Consultant, Studio Fieschi, Italy.
Product category expertise: Food & beverages, Textiles, footwear & apparel, Furniture & other goods, Paper products, Glass & plastic products, Machinery & equipment, Vehicles & transport equipment, Services, Construction products. - Nasser Ayoub, Professional Consultant, DCarbon Egypt, CEO Hub EPD Egypt, Egypt. Product category expertise: t.b.a.
- Rob Rouwette, Professional Consultant, start2see, Australia.
Product category expertise: Construction products. - Sanjeevan Bajaj, Director, CRPG, India; Director SAEL, India.
Product category expertise: Agricultural crops, Textiles. - Sophie Kieselbach, Senior Implementation Engineer, Makersite, Austria.
Product category expertise: Building and construction, Packaging materials, Automotive industry, Machinery, Electronics, Renewable materials.
