Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)
A look at Environmental Product Declarations and Rubber Flooring
An EPD is a great starting point. It creates a benchmark for product comparison and manufacturing transparency.
Involvement in the programme by a flooring manufacturer signals a commitment to measuring and reducing the environmental impact of its products.
As it stands an EPD is a voluntary certification programme. But we would like to see it become universally required. We feel it is currently the most direct way for products and services to be compared using independent analysis.
Within an EPD a company is able to inform the market place about its production methods, its raw materials and the relative impacts of these. Data points such production of waste and CO2 emissions are recorded and shared transparently.
The methodology for doing this is in accordance with the EN ISO 14025:2010 standard and is independently verified.
The result is an offering of standardised information regarding environmental impacts.
This helps to remove marketing bias and instead delivers clear factual information so that building professionals can compare product groups and categories.
Artigo Rubber Flooring has an EPD for its product ranges so comparing it to other rubber flooring and resilient floor types could not be easier.
An EPD is a key tool that allows designers and architects to make informed decisions. It can also help show that not all rubber or resilient flooring is equivalent.
A core metric is Global Warming Potential.
This should be considered closely when comparing flooring types.
