Rakennustieto EPD

The EPD declaration provides comprehensive information on the product's environmental impact and the use of various natural resources, from the procurement and processing of raw materials to transportation, and even how the product can be recycled and reused after the building is demolished, as well as the impact of its final disposal.  

The data is based on LCA calculations and the declaration undergoes verification, which guarantees the accuracy and transparency of the information presented in the declaration and ensures that the requirements set for the declaration have been met. EPD provides reliable baseline data for calculating the carbon footprint or other environmental impacts of a building throughout its lifetime.  

Demand for buildings that meet sustainabilty requirements is growing. Third-party verified EPDs serve as an essential source of information in this regard. Lifecycle environmental impacts are important criteria when selecting building materials. Verified environmental declaration data is also used to calculate the carbon footprint of buildings.

The Rakennustieto EPD environmental declaration helps building contractors, developers, and designers better understand environmental issues related to building products and materials. The Rakennustieto EPD environmental declaration is a Type III environmental label.

EPDs published by Rakennustieto are voluntary and impartial. The information is presented in accordance with the EN 15804:2012+A2:2019 standard. This ensures that the information in the declarations is comparable when calculating building levels or building components. The indicators specified in the standard describe the environmental impacts caused during the product's life cycle, which include:

• climate change impact, which takes into account the carbon footprint

• ozone-depleting substances that thin the ozone layer

• emissions that acidify the soil and water bodies, which damage ecosystems and the built environment

• emissions causing eutrophication that lead to oxygen loss in water bodies

• depletion of non-renewable energy resources and mineral flows resulting from the exploitation of these resources.

Rakennustieto EPDs are verified by a third party. The information presented in them has been checked and found to be a reliable source of environmental information.

Product Information service

Product Information is the world's first place where CO2 data is combined with the GTIN-coded product level. We deconstruct your EPD into a structured format, extracting about 20 data fields and making your information available to the entire industry through Product Information search, management services, and interface. With Product Information, your product stands out in the market from competitors and is discoverable by purchasers and designers. The information is also effortlessly transmitted to contractors and clients. Product Information multiplies the benefits of publishing an EPD and ensures that the EPD is genuinely used.

Product Information is a solution for the entire construction industry for life-cycle product information management. It facilitates design, decision-making, supervision, and required documentation. For more information: Tuotetieto.fi

An EPD declaration provides comprehensive, externally verified information on a product's environmental impact, from the use of various natural resources in its raw materials and manufacturing to its final disposal and recycling.

EPD environmental declarations help building contractors, developers, and designers better understand the environmental issues associated with building products and materials. An EPD environmental declaration is a Type III environmental label. Various environmental classification programs award points for the use of materials with EPDs.

The EPD itself does not take a position on the fitness of the product, but it provides transparent and verified standardised information on the magnitude of various impacts and enables the calculation of the life cycle of buildings or building components. By providing reliable information on the environmental impact of a product, manufacturers can influence development in a more environmentally friendly direction.

The Only Finnish EPD Publisher

Flexible and specialised service in Finnish

Rakennustieto Oy is owned by the Building Information Foundation RTS and is part of the RTS group.

Revenues are directed through the activities of the Building Information Foundation to the development of the entire property and construction sector – for the benefit of the entire industry.

Nordic Mutual-Recognition

An agreement on mutual-recognition of EPDs has been made among Nordic EPD publishers, including Rakennustieto, EPD International, EPD Norway, and EPD Denmark. This allows the environmental product declarations to be published in the systems of more than one publishing operator. Systems may have requirements, such as that transport in module A4 is calculated and declared according to the requirements of another publisher as well.

The agreement also allows for the utilization of product category-specific PCR documents from another publication program. The benefit is that these documents provide suitable and consistent assumptions for EPD statements, making the information in the statements more comparable.  

If you want to use a product category-specific PCR document made in other systems covered by the agreement in your Rakennustieto EPD environmental declaration, please contact us so we can examine and approve the PCR document.

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Product Information

Product Information is the world's first place where CO2 data is combined with the GTIN-coded product level. We deconstruct your EPD into a structured format, extracting about 20 data fields and making your information available to the entire industry through Product Information searches, management services, and interfaces. With Product Information, your product stands out in the market from competitors and is discoverable by purchasers and designers. The information is also effortlessly transmitted to contractors and clients. Product Information multiplies the benefits of publishing an EPD and ensures that the EPD is genuinely used.

Product Information is a solution for the entire construction industry for life-cycle product information management. It facilitates design, decision-making, supervision, and required documentation. For more information: Tuotetieto.fi

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A Reliable Operator

We are responsible for the verification of the EPD and the management of our publishing platform, as well as for developing and/or identifying existing product class rules required by the EPD.

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ECO Platform

When you publish an EPD in Building Information, it is also automatically published in the ECO Platform, which is the umbrella organization for European EPD program holders in Europe.

‍The EPD Programme of Building Information has been audited and approved into the ECO Platform system.

The holder of an Rakennustieto EPD declaration has the chance to add the EPD information into ECO Platform portal and add ECO Platform logo to the declaration.

ECO Platform has changed the search engine provider and from October 2020, all EPDs published by the Program Operators will be noticed in the new ECO Portal in ILCD format. To publish in the EcoPortal, please send EPD information in ILCD+EPD format as an XML file or ZIP file and excel-file (EN15804:2019).

Additional information on ECOPlatform is available at www.eco-platform.org.