The regulatory approach to life-cycle assessment (LCA) environmental information was one of the most relevant topics during our workshop on environmental products declarations (EPD) last year.

We organised this new workshop to better understand LCA but also to dig on the procedures established by the construction products regulation (CPR) to declare the product performance in CE marking and declaration of performance (DoP).

More than 40 experts from different industries and countries discussed and provided their initial inputs to this interesting topic.

Elisa Setién explained how manufacturers develop their CE markings and Declarations of Performance (DoP):

Marc Bosmans presented the basic concepts of EPD development:

In the afternoon session participants discussed the current situation of the market and the implications of introducing LCA information as essential characteristics within the CPR regulatory framework.

For information about the number of EPD in the market please see the excellent infographic of Jane Anderson.