EPD
104 requirements in the product view, of 156 held for this scheme. Scheme profile
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs · 2012+A2:2019 · 49 requirements
Read this standard- 5.3Comparability of EPD for construction products
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the basis for comparing construction products on environmental grounds by means of their declarations; a principle; concerns anyone making such comparisons; connects to clause 7.1 h) and clause 6.2.1.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.23·Climate Health
- 5.4.3Additional information on carbon offset, carbon storage and delayed emissions
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the treatment of carbon offsets in the climate change indicator and their relation to the product system; an exclusion rule; connects to clause 6.3.5.1 and clause 6.5.2.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.24·Climate Health
- 6.2.1General
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: how a full life cycle EPD is divided into information modules; a structural rule for the declaration; connects to clause 6.2.2 to clause 6.2.7 and clause 7.5.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.25·Climate Health
- 6.2.2A1-A3, Product stage, information modules
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the content of the product stage modules and their presentation in a declaration; a definition with an aggregation option; connects to clause 6.3.5.2, clause 6.3.5.5 and clause 7.5.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.25·Climate Health
- 6.2.3A4-A5, Construction process stage, information modules
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the content of the construction process stage modules; a definition; connects to clause 7.3.2.1 and clause 7.3.2.2.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.25·Climate Health
- 6.2.5B6-B7, use stage, information modules related to the operation of the building
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the content of the use stage modules tied to building operation; a definition; connects to clause 6.3.5.4 and clause 7.3.3.3.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.26·Climate Health
- 6.3.1Functional or declared unit
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the role of functional and declared units as the reference basis for a declaration's data; a principle on how such units are defined; connects to clause 6.3.2.1 and clause 6.3.3.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.26·Climate Health
- 6.3.10Units
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the system of measurement units for expressing resources, with exceptions; a convention for results; connects to clause 6.5.1.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.39·Climate Health
- 6.3.2.1Construction product specificationsKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the content of a functional unit for a construction product; a specification duty; connects to clause 6.3.1 and clause 6.3.2.2.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.27·Climate Health
- 6.3.2.2Default application for EPDsKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the typical application of a product in a full life cycle declaration built on a functional unit; a definition duty; connects to clause 6.3.2.1 and clause 6.3.9.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.27·Climate Health
- 6.3.3Declared unit
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the circumstances for using a declared unit in place of a functional unit; a condition of use; connects to clause 6.3.1 and clause 6.3.2.1.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.28·Climate Health
- 6.3.5.1LCA system boundaryKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the product system's boundary and its edges with neighbouring systems; a scope statement for the boundary clauses that follow; connects to clause 6.3.5.2, clause 6.3.5.4 and clause 6.4.3.3.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.29·Climate Health
- 6.3.5.2Cradle-to-gate life cycle modulesKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the product stage as a module of a declaration; a coverage rule; connects to clause 6.2.2 and clause 5.2.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.30·Climate Health
- 6.3.5.4Building use phaseKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the period and modules of the use stage; a definition of scope; connects to clause 6.2.4, clause 6.2.5 and clause 6.3.5.4.2.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.31·Climate Health
- 6.3.5.4.2Use stage information modulesKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the scope of the module on use of the installed product; a definition; connects to clause 6.2.4.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.32·Climate Health
- 6.3.5.4.3 B6Energy use for building integrated systemsKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the boundary of the operational energy module for building integrated technical systems; a boundary rule; connects to clause 6.2.5 and clause 7.3.3.3.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.34·Climate Health
- 6.3.5.4.3 B7Operational water use in building systemsKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the boundary of the operational water module for building integrated technical systems; a boundary rule; connects to clause 6.2.5 and clause 7.3.3.3.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.34·Climate Health
- 6.3.5.5 FE)Biogenic carbon degradation in wasteKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the degradation of biogenic carbon in products at waste disposal sites, a calculation rule for declared biogenic global warming potential; connects to clause 6.3.8.2.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.35·Climate Health
- 6.3.6Criteria for the exclusion of inputs and outputs
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: leaving inputs and outputs out of the assessment, a procedure on data gaps and cut-off criteria with a documentation duty for assumptions; connects to clause 6.3.8.2.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.36·Climate Health
- 6.3.7Selection of data
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the choice of data behind the results of an EPD, a general principle setting an order of preference among data types.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.36·Climate Health
- 6.3.8.2Data quality requirements for LC inventoryKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the quality of life cycle inventory data used in the modelling, a set of data quality rules; connects to clauses 6.3.6 and 6.3.5.5.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.37·Climate Health
- 6.3.8.3Data quality assessment for generic dataKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: quality assessment information for generic data, a documentation duty that extends to the inventory data behind the EPD; connects to clause 6.3.8.2.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.38·Climate Health
- 6.3.9Developing product level scenarios
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the purpose of product-level scenarios in an EPD, a limit on their scope.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.39·Climate Health
- 6.4.1Collecting data
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: collecting environmental data for the assessment, a methodological condition pointing to an international LCA standard.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.40·Climate Health
- 6.4.2Calculation procedures
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the calculation procedures behind an EPD, a condition of consistency with an international LCA standard.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.40·Climate Health
- 6.4.3.1Avoidance of allocationKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: avoiding allocation between co-products, a principle on how unit processes are treated before any allocation; connects to clause 6.4.3.2.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.40·Climate Health
- 6.4.3.2Allocation in joint co-productionKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: allocation between co-products in joint production, a principle on the basis chosen for allocation; connects to clause 6.4.3.1.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.41·Climate Health
- 6.4.4Information on biogenic carbon content
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the biogenic carbon content of a construction product, a definition and a declaration duty; connects to clause 7.2.5.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.42·Climate Health
- 6.5.1General
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: how environmental impact results are expressed, a methodological principle on impact category indicators and characterisation factors; connects to clause 6.5.2.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.42·Climate Health
- 6.5.2Core environmental impact indicators
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the core set of environmental impact indicators in an EPD, a content obligation; connects to clause 7.2.3.1.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.42·Climate Health
- 7.1 b)Construction product usage detailsKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the intended use of the construction product and the unit to which the data relates, a declaration item; connects to clause 6.3.1.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.43·Climate Health
- 7.1 g)Exclusions from lifecycle assessmentKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: disclosure of which life cycle stages an EPD leaves out, a declaration item for EPDs not covering the whole life cycle; connects to clause 6.2.1.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.43·Climate Health
- 7.1 h)EPD comparabilityKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: a statement on the comparability of EPDs, a declaration item for the EPD owner linked to clause 5.3.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.43·Climate Health
- 7.1 i)Average EPD declarationKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: EPDs that describe an average across several products, a declaration item on averaged results and their variability.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.43·Climate Health
- 7.1 j)EPD representativenessKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the representativeness of an EPD, a declaration item on whom and where the results stand for.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.43·Climate Health
- 7.2.3.1Presenting the core impact categoriesKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the core environmental impact indicators and their presentation in each declared module, a content obligation linked to clause 6.5.2.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.45·Climate Health
- 7.2.3.3Disclaimers for environmental impact indicatorsKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: disclaimers attached to environmental impact indicators, a documentation duty on the EPD owner covering both the project report and the EPD, linked to clause 7.2.3.2.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.47·Climate Health
- 7.2.4.1Reporting resource use alongside impactsKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: resource use and waste information based on life cycle inventory, a reporting obligation on the EPD owner that sits beside the impact indicators; connects to clauses 7.2.4.2 and 7.2.4.3.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.48·Climate Health
- 7.2.4.2Resource use indicatorsKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the resource use indicator set, a reporting obligation on the EPD owner applying to each declared module.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.48·Climate Health
- 7.2.5Information on biogenic carbon content
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: biogenic carbon content of the product and its packaging at the factory gate, a declaration duty on the EPD owner with an exemption tied to bio-based share; connects to clause 6.4.4.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.50·Climate Health
- 7.3.1General
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: EPDs claiming to cover the whole life cycle, a completeness condition on the EPD owner; connects to clauses 6.2.1 and 6.3.9.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.50·Climate Health
- 7.3.2.1Transport scenario detailsKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: optional technical information on transport from factory to building site, a documentation duty triggered when that information is given, tabulating scenario parameters; connects to clause 7.3.1.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.51·Climate Health
- 7.3.2.2Installation technical informationKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: optional technical information on installing the product in the building, a documentation duty triggered when that information is given, tabulating scenario inputs; connects to clause 7.3.1.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.51·Climate Health
- 7.3.3.3Energy and water usage scenariosKlar Cite’s name
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: optional technical information for building-integrated systems using energy or water in operation, a documentation duty triggered when that information is given; connects to clause 6.2.5.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.54·Climate Health
- 7.5Aggregation of information modules
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: combining module indicators into life cycle stage totals, a restriction on the EPD owner with an exemption for part of the product stage; connects to clauses 6.2.1 and 6.3.5.2.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.56·Climate Health
- 8.2LCA-related elements of the project report
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the transparency principle for the LCA part of the project report and its link to independent verification; connects to clause 8.4.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.57·Climate Health
- C.2.3Fossil global warming potential (GWP-fossil)
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the fossil global warming potential indicator, a definition of its scope; connects to clause 6.5.2.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.65·Climate Health
- C.2.4Biogenic global warming potential (GWP-biogenic)
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the biogenic global warming potential indicator, a definition of its scope; connects to clauses 6.5.2 and 7.2.5.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.65·Climate Health
- C.2.5Land use and land use change global warming potential (GWP-luluc)
Klar Cite note, not the standard’s words: Addresses: the land use and land use change global warming potential indicator, a definition of its scope and calculation basis; connects to clause 6.5.2.
Wording is not listed. Open the clause for its citation and, where the publisher’s terms allow, its words.
EN 15804 Core rules for construction product EPDs·p.66·Climate Health