ARCHITECTS, engineers, contractors and other built environment professionals can now easily access Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for the most common timber products with Timber Development UK’s new EPD database.
The database provides easy referral to EPDs developed by TDUK members, including UPM, Moelven, Jordeson Timber, Setra, Sodra Wood, Steico, Metsa, Swedish Wood, Vida, James Jones & Sons Limited, Stora Enso, Riga Wood Limited, BSW Timber, Forest Industries Ireland, Donaldson Timber Systems, and Wiehag Timber Construction.
“EPDs are essential to achieving net zero in our built environment, helping architects, engineers and other specifiers to make sustainable decisions on material selection as early in the design process as possible,” says Charlie Law, sustainability director Timber Development UK.
“The timber industry has made significant investments into producing EPDs which support designers to make accurate estimates of the whole life carbon of their projects. This data is increasingly expected by clients and is a requirement for many major developers — particularly on large-scale projects.
“One of the core missions of Timber Development UK since it was formed is to accelerate a low-carbon future. Together with our members, we are working hard to ensure that our built environment is on track to achieve net zero by 2050.
“The EPD database follows on from our work at the beginning of this year to make available weighted average embodied carbon figures for 95% of timber supplied in the UK. We are providing all of these data and tools completely free for the use of anyone interested in building sustainably.”
See page 15 of our August/September 2024 issue on our Back Issues page.
