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What are Environmental Product Declarations?

An EPD is an objective, transparent report that communicates how much a product's composition impacts the environment across its entire life cycle. EPDs provide information on a product's carbon footprint, acidification, depletion of fossil fuel, and recycled content, as well as energy and chemical-free statements.

Why are EPDs important?

An EPD is like a nutrition label for a building product. Instead of identifying impacts like calories and daily recommended allowances, an EPD identifies life cycle impacts like global warming, ozone depletion, water and air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. EPDs are meticulous, third-party examinations that offer holistic evidence of a product's drive towards sustainability. 

How can Sloan products help your project?

Points within LEED v5 are awarded for using products with industry-wide or product-specific Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). Products with product-specific EPDs earn more credit than generic ones. EPDs are used to quantify the embodied carbon of materials. Products with lower global warming potential values compared to industry averages can be classified as “Optimized Products”, which count more toward credit thresholds. Sloan takes pride in having developed not only one of the largest libraries of product-specific EPDs, but also optimized products.

Sloan's EPDs are produced in accordance with international standards and verified by an independent third party to ensure the data we communicate is credible, resulting in full LEED Material and Resource credits for your project.