EPD News
BlueScope update EPDs – adding value to their customers
14th Dec 2020
BlueScope published Australia’s very first EPDs registered by EPD Australasia. Now, five years later they have released a suite of updated EPDs. Once again, BlueScope are first off the mark, this time being the first to publish to standard EN15804:2012+A2:2019... Read more
EPD owner survey: tell us what you think
14th Dec 2020
EPD Australasia recently conducted a survey of its EPD owners on the driver and barriers for EPDs and how we can better support our EPD owners. Many thanks go out to those who took the time to complete this as... Read more
Season’s Greetings and Christmas closure
14th Dec 2020
The EPD Australasia Secretariat will close for the Christmas period at midday NZDT on Thursday 24th December, re-opening on Monday 11th January. The deadline for submitting EPDs for publication before the end of the year, in the EPD Australasia database,... Read more
Technical guidance published on new PCR for construction products
8th Dec 2020
The EPD Australasia Technical Advisory Group has published a technical guidance note on the new Product Category Rules (PCR) for construction products. The standard EN 15804 “Sustainability of construction works. Environmental product declarations. Core rules for the product category of construction... Read more
Bombardier the First to Publish EPD for a Business Aircraft
6th Oct 2020
The range of EPDs continues to expand with Bombardier Aviation and the International EPD® System recently announcing the first publication of an EPD for business aviation, the Global 7500 aircraft. The aircraft EPD is third party verified and provides fully... Read more
Abodo Wood Recognises Need for Environmental Transparency
6th Oct 2020
Abodo is a family owned, New Zealand based timber company, priding themselves on producing beautiful, durable, and renewable timbers. The company has long had a strong environmental commitment: harvesting from certified rapidly renewable plantation forests, minimising transport related emissions and... Read more
InfraBuild: New Name, Same Commitment to Sustainability
6th Oct 2020
This month InfraBuild (formerly OneSteel) published revalidated and rebranded EPDs and included Material Circularity Indicator (MCI) metrics in recognition of the growing focus on the Circular Economy. We spoke to InfraBuild’s Construction Market Manager, David Bell about the value of... Read more
Boral Australia President & CEO Talks Sustainability and EPDs
6th Oct 2020
Boral, the largest integrated construction materials company in Australia, have recently published their first EPD for a range of pre-mix concrete mixes. We spoke to President and CEO of Boral Australia, Wayne Manners about the company’s commitment to sustainability and... Read more
Philippa Stone: Meet the new EPD Australasia Director
6th Oct 2020
Philippa (Pip) Stone, Sustainability Manager at BlueScope, has made sustainability the focus of her 13-year career. Pip’s first sustainability role was with global construction specialist ISG, based in London. During her 12 years with ISG she rose to Group Director... Read more
Extension to validity period for Construction PCR 2012:01
18th Sep 2020
EPD International has decided to extend the validity period for our PCR 2012:01 Construction products and construction services and all associated sub-PCRs that follow the old version of EN 15804 (EN 15804:2012+A1:2013) for a further 12 months until 31 December 2021... Read more