International EPD System
513 requirements in the product view, of 629 held for this scheme. Scheme profile
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products · v2.0.1 · 143 requirements
Read this standard- 6.6Additional cover page information
EPDs registered via a regional or national licensee must also name that licensee on the cover page.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.55·No CMF area
- clause not recordedSubstituted material and energy
The manufacturer must model substituted material or energy as the market average for the EPD's region, not with marginal (consequential) data.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.41·Climate Health
- clause not recordedQuality adjustment factor
When recovered energy or material is poorer than what it substitutes, the EPD must scale the module D benefit by a quality adjustment factor (0–100%).
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.41·Climate Health
- clause not recordedModule D scenario dependency
This clause concerns scenario dependence of module D results.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.41·Circular Economy
- clause not recordedModule D location
Module D is treated as lying outside the product system, beyond life cycle stages A to C.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.41·Circular Economy
- clause not recordedBiogenic CO2 balance
Biogenic CO2 uptake and release must net to zero within module D, so they add nothing to the GWP-biogenic result.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.41·Circular Economy
- clause not recordedMaterial yield calculation
The net module D flow is the difference between recovered material in and out, using EN 15804 Annex D variables and the material yield.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.41·Circular Economy
- clause not recordedCorrection of equation D.6
Equation D.6 in EN 15804 Annex D is corrected so each net recovered-material flow is multiplied by Y.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.41·Climate Health
- clause not recordedDefault values for M MR out
The PEF method's R2 ratio can serve as the default for the recycled material output scenario unless a complementary PCR gives the value.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.41·Climate Health
- clause not recordedEnvironmental performance indicators declaration
The EPD's results section must report every EN 15804 environmental indicator together with the disclaimers that standard requires.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.42·Climate Health
- clause not recordedGWP-GHG indicator declaration
The EPD must report GWP-GHG as a supplementary climate impact indicator.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.42·Climate Health
- clause not recordedGWP-GHG indicator calculation
For modules A1-A3, GWP-GHG may instead be calculated as GWP-total plus the biogenic carbon in product and packaging multiplied by 44/12.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.42·Climate Health
- clause not recordedAdditional indicators declaration
The scheme allows the EPD to report extra indicators if relevant to the category, justified, using suitable methods, and verifiable.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.43·No CMF area
- clause not recordedConversion factors applicability
The EPD must clearly state any limits on where its conversion factors can be applied.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.44·Climate Health
- clause not recordedDescription of content declaration
An EPD covering several products, or a sector EPD, must explain what its content declaration stands for.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.60·Human Health
- clause not recordedDeclaration of SVHCs> 0.1 %
The EPD must declare hazard and environmental properties of any candidate-list substance of very high concern over 0.1% by weight of the product or a component.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.60·Human Health
- clause not recordedDeclaration of other hazardous substances
The EPD content declaration must also cover other hazardous or toxic substances of concern where standards or regulations in its market require it.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.60·Human Health
- clause not recordedDeclaration of environmental properties following GHS
Information on substances' environmental and hazard properties should follow the latest UN GHS classification system or a national version of it.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.60·Human Health
- clause not recordedDeclared share of biogenic/recycled materials
The declared biogenic or recycled share must reflect the product's actual average content over the study period, normally a year of production.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.60·Circular Economy
- clause not recordedCaution on claims of being free from hazardous materials
A 'free of' claim for a hazardous substance should be used cautiously, only where it matters, and follow ISO 14021 rules on self-declared claims.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.60·Human Health
- clause not recordedConsistency with technical data sheet and availability of safety data sheet
The EPD content declaration must agree with any technical data sheet, and the verifier must be given any safety data sheet, such as to check SVHCs.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.60·Human Health
- clause not recordedAdditional rules for content declaration
The scheme allows category-specific product category rules to add further rules for the content declaration.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.60·No CMF area
- clause not recordedGeographical scope of EPD per module
The EPD must state which countries or regions each life-cycle module was modelled for, from production and construction through use and end of life.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.61·Climate Health
- clause not recordedDeclared unit and conversion factor
The EPD must give the declared or functional unit, a mass conversion factor where mass is not the unit, and physical properties to convert units.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.61·Climate Health
- clause not recordedCoverage area per unit of product
Where relevant, the EPD must declare how much area one unit of product covers, such as m2 per kg or per item.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.62·Climate Health
- clause not recordedReference service life and relationship with technical lifespan
Recommended, not required.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.62·Circular Economy
- clause not recordedDescription of EPD system boundary
Sets out that the EPD describes its system boundary as one of six listed types, such as cradle-to-gate or cradle-to-grave with module D.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.62·Climate Health
- clause not recordedInformation on omitted life-cycle stages
Sets out that the EPD names any life-cycle stages it leaves out and gives a reason for each.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.62·Climate Health
- clause not recordedProcess flow diagram of product system
Sets out a process flow diagram split by life-cycle stage or module, marking the main processes and where the LCA system boundary falls.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.62·Climate Health
- clause not recordedDescription of allocation procedures for recycled material
When recycled content is a major input or output, the EPD explains how burdens are allocated to it, following the standard's allocation rules.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.62·Climate Health
- clause not recordedSummary of data quality assessment
An independent verifier checks the declaration before it is published.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.62·Climate Health
- clause not recordedDeclaration of data sources and reference years
Covers the EPD's statement of reference years, data sources and how much of the data is primary.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.62·Climate Health
- clause not recordedModelling of infrastructure/capital goods
The LCA report is to describe how infrastructure and capital goods were modelled, where they are relevant.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.62·Climate Health
- clause not recordedDescription of scenario(s) for downstream stages and module D
Recommended, not required.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.62·Circular Economy
- clause not recordedCharacterisation methods for environmental performance indicators
Sets out that the EPD references the characterisation method of every declared indicator, with the EN 15804 reference package version, e.g. EF 3.1.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.62·Climate Health
- clause not recordedAdditional relevant information about LCA
Lists further LCA details to report, such as cut-off rules, data quality, allocation, assumptions and interpretation results.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.62·Climate Health
- clause not recordedDeclaration of variation in results between products and sites
Sets out declaring, where applicable, how results vary between the products and sites an EPD covers.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.63·Climate Health
- clause not recordedStatement on impact results
Sets out a statement for the EPD, beside impact results, that they are relative and do not indicate thresholds, safety margins or risks.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.63·Climate Health
- clause not recordedStatement on end-of-life stage results
EPDs covering end of life must state that end-of-life results (C1-C4) should be read together with product-stage results.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.63·Circular Economy
- clause not recordedStatement on balancing out biogenic carbon and recovered energy
The EPD must state when biogenic carbon or recovered energy leaving the system in A5 or C was already balanced out in modules A1–A3.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.63·Climate Health
- clause not recordedAdditional LCA results for scenarios and alternative approaches
Sets out that results for any extra scenarios in modules A4 to D are reported where such scenarios are modelled.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.63·Climate Health
- clause not recordedAdditional environmental information
The scheme allows an EPD to include extra environmental information that does not come from the LCA.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.64·No CMF area
- clause not recordedAdditional social and economic information
Optional: an EPD can carry relevant social and economic information, labelled as additional information.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.64·No CMF area
- clause not recordedInformation related to sector EPDs
A sector EPD must list contributing manufacturers, explain how sites and results were chosen, and state its representativeness as an average or worst case.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.64·Climate Health
- clause not recordedDescription of selection and determination of results for sector EPDs
Sets out what a sector EPD describes: how sites or products were chosen and how its average or worst-case declared results were derived.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.65·Climate Health
- clause not recordedStatement on representativeness of sector EPDs
Sector EPDs include a statement that results are average or worst-case values for a product category, with percentage coverage, not a product on sale.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.65·Climate Health
- clause not recordedVersion history of EPD
The EPD must include a section listing its current and earlier versions with their dates.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.65·No CMF area
- clause not recordedAbbreviations in EPD
The EPD must include a section explaining every abbreviation it uses.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.65·No CMF area
- clause not recordedReferences in EPD
The EPD must include a reference list of every source cited in the EPD and its LCA report.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.65·No CMF area
- clause not recordedSeparation of fossil and biogenic carbon
The life cycle inventory must keep fossil and biogenic carbon flows apart, listing biogenic CO2, methane and similar as their own entries.
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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.77·Climate Health