Sustainable Construction

Every year several new ITB EPDs support sustainable construction market. ITB EPD is a technical information that provides quantifiable environmental data for construction products with a specified technical function on the building level. Standard PN-EN 15804 defines the core rules for the creation of EPDs for construction products and materials. EPD enables to analyze the life cycle of products with regard to their environmental impacts and to display these analyses in a transparent and standardized way. ITB EPD has the highest quality proved by third party verification in accordance to ISO14025:2010 requirements.

ITB by this activity supports a formal process of EPD implementation on the Polish market and support construction industry in developing a strategy and accompany on the way to a verified and sustainable building products.

EPD Program is voluntary and cover all construction products as it is defined in Annex IV of the European Construction Products Regulation (No 305/2011, CPR) and open to all interested construction product manufacturers.

ITB cooperates with other EPD program operators via ECO-PLATFORM, http://www.eco-platform.org/) to coordinate efforts to assist industry sectors while reducing verification effort in different countries. ITB shall accept the core EPD based on ECO requirements.

In this section for the transparency reasons all EPD ITB program documents are publicly available. ITB EPD documentation supplied, generated and used as part of the program procedure and are managed in accordance with the ITB’s data quality management system. All rights to the listed documents are reserved.

"Added value of the European Core EPD", dr inż. M. Piasecki (ITB), World SB14 Barcelona Conference Proceedings