Environmental Product Declaration creation service

It depends on where you sell and the project. For example, Europe has the strictest rules, where EPDs feed into whole-building assessments and public procurement by default. In North America there is no single federal law, but a growing set of state and agency rules increasingly require them. Buy Clean laws in California, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, New York and Minnesota, CalGreen, and GSA all call for a Type III EPD under ISO 14025 on publicly funded projects. Elsewhere, private demand fills the gap through programs like LEED and BREEAM, net-zero commitments, and tender requirements. In practice, no EPD might often lead to no bid.

Material choices are largely locked in early, during design, when architects and engineers select product. If your product carries a verified EPD at that stage, it can be compared, chosen, and written into the specification. If it does not, it is often filtered out before the conversation even starts. This is why an EPD is most valuable when it sits next to your BIM content, where specifiers are already searching and making decisions.

EPD pricing varies widely and providers quote in different ways. Some charge per EPD, some per LCA study, and some by hourly consulting rates, which makes quotes hard to compare. We work with fixed prices, and a single engagement typically covers multiple product variations within a product category, which keeps the cost per EPD down. Since an EPD is valid for five years, the investment also spreads over its full lifetime.

In a traditional consulting engagement, an EPD often takes several months, most of it spent not on the calculation but on the work around it. Scoping products, choosing the right PCR, gathering production data, and waiting in the queue for third-party verification. Data collection is usually the longest stage, since the information sits across different systems and teams. Our tech-enabled approach reduces that friction. By structuring data collection up front and using software for the LCA modeling and EPD generation, the main variable becomes how quickly your product data is available.

Any project with sustainability targets is a likely source of EPD requests. Examples include publicly funded construction under Buy Clean rules, projects pursuing LEED or BREEAM, and work led by architects, developers, and contractors with net-zero or embodied carbon commitments. Data centers are one of the fastest-growing examples. Through the iMasons Climate Accord, hyperscalers like AWS, Google, Meta, and Microsoft have asked suppliers to publish EPDs to track embodied carbon and Scope 3 emissions, so suppliers without one risk being left out.