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WE-EF and Understanding Environmental Product Declarations

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Understanding product life cycle brings many benefits

At the recent Festival of Landscape Architecture: This Public Life, held in Melbourne, WE-EF took centre stage in presenting an industry breakfast designed to deepen industry understanding of Environmental Product Declarations (EPD). EPDs are quickly becoming the industry-standard for business-to-business communication of environmental data in the construction industry and in green / sustainable public procurement. They provide decision makers with an immediate, credible and non-judgmental way to assess a product's environmental impacts over its full life cycle.

In order to understand the benefits of EPDs, it's important to understand the green building market and the opportunities therein. All major green building schemes - LEED, GreenStar, DGNB, BREEAM - have implemented systems for disclosing environmental information for building products and award points based on EPDs.

The demand for green buildings is growing, especially in densely populated areas both in leading markets like the United States and also in Australia.

"But just painting it green doesn't help, so we really need credible facts and figures," said keynote speaker at this breakfast session, Dr Barbara Nebel from thinkstep.

The founder and current president of the Life Cycle Association New Zealand said the built environment causes considerable impact in regard to carbon emissions, water consumption etc. "That is why it's essential to focus on products and materials, especially when you think about how many more buildings we'll need to build over the next few years".

"In the past the clear focus was on operation or maintenance but with buildings becoming more and more energy efficient, a lot of impact goes back to the products and materials used in a building," said Dr. Nebel.



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