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What’s an EPD? Environmental Product Declaration FAQs

We answer FAQs on EPDs, which allow manufacturers to disclose a product’s carbon footprint and other impacts.

by Brent Ehrlich and Paula Melton

Though intended to promote material transparency, environmental product declarations (EPDs) are complex documents that can be anything but clear to most architects and other building professionals.

We’ve put together this FAQ to introduce the basics.

Published August 3, 2015

Ehrlich, B., & Melton, P. (2015, August 3). What’s an EPD? Environmental Product Declaration FAQs. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/feature-shorts/what-s-epd-environmental-product-declaration-faqs

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