It’s been a while since my last post – I’m in the final stages of writing up my PhD so there’s not a lot of free time, but I have had time to update my EPD Infographic for the start of 2023, and I’m confident that there are now at least 130,000 EPD for construction products available globally, with more than 40,000 using EN 15804.

Looking just at EPD to EN 15804 that have been registered within EPD Programmes, then numbers have increased again to over 16,000. However, I have also been given the numbers, for some programmes and tools, of EN 15804 EPD which have been produced from pre-verified tools, account for at least 25,000 EPD. And there are lots of pre-verified EPD tools out that are not included in the list, for example EPD Norge lists over 40 pre-verified EPD tools.

When used by Trade Associations, these types of pre-verified EPD tools are a fantastic way of reducing the costs of producing EPD and allowing SMEs to enter the market. They also allow manufacturers with large product ranges to provide specific EPD on-demand for individual products for particular projects.

The largest number of construction product EPD however are coming from the US, where there are over 80,000 concrete EPD to ISO 21930 listed in the EC3 tool which makes finding EPD within a given distance, with particular performance criterial and maximum carbon impact a relatively simple operation. Again, these EPD have come from a range of pre-verified concrete EPD tools developed for the sector, and with legislation limiting the embodied carbon of concrete in some states, e.g. New York State and counties, e.g. Marin County, some concrete suppliers are starting to produce hundreds of EPD to cover all their sites and mixes.

If you want to find out more, check out the infographic at https://bit.ly/2023-EPD, and if you want to use any of the graphs or figures, please just credit me (Jane Anderson, ConstructionLCA Ltd, 2023).

Once I’ve handed in my PhD, I expect that I’ll be back to posting here more regularly. See you soon!