Confusion surrounding the relationship between Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) has grown and resulted in the need for clarification. This article examines that relationship and how EPDs can benefit the environmental credentials of your product.

Facilitating the integration of LCA options appraisals into LCC works and vice versa, helps design teams understand from an early stage how the design of a building will affect costings, alongside carbon performance metrics. This allows project teams to effectively select design options which consider more than one entity (such as cost and embodied carbon), to provide a basis for a more comprehensive and holistic approach to decision making within building designs.