1 Environmental Product Declarations: A Building Industry Experience for Kingspan Insulated Panels

Kingspan Insulated Panels has been publicly publishing its global sustainability performance for the last six years as part of a Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to promote economic, environmental and social sustainability. A key part of this has been the development of environmental product declarations (EPDs) and labels for their insulated panels range. The overall goal of publishing EPDs and labels is to encourage the demand for, and supply of, those products that cause less impact on the environment, through communication of verifiable and accurate information that is not misleading, thereby stimulating the potential for market-driven continuous environmental improvement. In 2011 Kingspan commissioned Edge Environment to conduct a LCA study of their range of insulated panel products for roof, wall and controlled environment applications produced in Australia, in order to establish rigorous environmental credentials for external communications. The study was conducted in accordance with the Building Products Life Cycle Inventory (BP LCI) methodology developed by Australian building product manufacturers under the auspices of the Building Products Innovation Council (BPIC). Th