29th May 2018
EPDs published with the Australasian EPD Programme have been downloaded 2,884 times over the last 12 months. This is an average of 70 downloads per EPD. The three most frequently downloaded EPDs were for Dulux Wall Paints, Holcim Reinforced Concrete... Read more
29th May 2018
Allied Concrete is committed to ongoing improvement in sustainable practice, and was the first company in the Australasian region to publish an EPD. We spoke to Allied Concrete’s Technical Project Manager Chris Munn about the decision to produce and EPD... Read more
24th Apr 2018
The Australasian EPD Programme’s Technical Advisory Group today issued a new guidance note on the selection of background life cycle inventory (LCI) data for use in a life cycle assessment (LCA) study intended to be published through an Australasian EPD.... Read more
13th Apr 2018
A webinar on Tuesday 10th April at 1pm AEST outlined the streamlined process for carbon neutral certification available through Australasian Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). Speakers included: Rob Rouwette – Energetics and ALCAS Stephen Mitchell – Australasian EPD Programme Daniel Raftopoulos... Read more
15th Mar 2018
The Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy and the Australasian EPD Programme are pleased to announce that Australasian Environmental Product Declarations can now gain carbon neutral certification through a streamlined process. This will make it much easier and... Read more
26th Feb 2018
We are seeing a rapid growth in the number of food and agriculture companies publishing EPDs in Europe. As this is written there are 139 EPDs published by the International EPD System for products from frozen hamburgers, olive oil and... Read more
26th Feb 2018
Maartje is an independent consultant advising industry, government and NGOs on life cycle thinking and sustainability assessments. She has 15 years experience in the field, including a decade with Dutch think-tank CE Delft, before moving to Australia and establishing Sevenster... Read more
26th Feb 2018
The International EPD System has announced their register now includes one thousand environmental declarations from 37 countries. Half of these were registered in the period 2014-2017, indicating that the interest has grown enormously in recent years. After construction products, the... Read more
26th Feb 2018
Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA) have recently published an industry-wide EPD for glued laminated timber (glulam). We caught up with Research and Development Manager, Chris Lafferty, to find out how the newly minted EPD will be used. Why did... Read more
26th Feb 2018
The guidance document that details the streamlined approach for business with an Australasian EPD for certification under the Australian Government’s National Carbon Offset Standard for Products and Services has been finalised. It will be published this week by the Department... Read more