The Athena Institute is a leader in environmental declarations.
An environmental product declaration – an EPD – summarizes life cycle assessment data in a public document. EPDs are quickly growing in popularity to meet a marketplace demand for more transparency by product manufacturers. Many Athena Institute clients and partners are looking at EPDs as a preferred way of putting LCA results in front of their customers. Environmental product declarations are a true transformation in the way industry conveys environmental information to its stakeholders.
The Athena Institute provides EPD development services in partnership with EPD program operators. We have relationships with all major North American program operators and with the European-based International EPD System. In addition, we provide critical peer review or verification services of LCA reports and EPDs. We also participate in the development or review of PCRs (product category rules) in partnership with program operators.
Athena has pioneered a similar approach for whole buildings, with our environmental building declarations (EBDs). We produce comprehensive cradle-to-grave LCA declarations in accordance with the whole-building LCA standard EN 15978 and the Canadian National Guidelines for wbLCA. An EBD complements – and goes beyond – green building certifications by reporting far more data and in a standardized format. Building owners that publish an EBD show a real commitment to accountability and transparency in sustainable design.
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