Ecophon customers rightfully expect the highest standards for safety and quality from us. Sustainability should be no different. That’s why we pursue full third-party verifiability and certification of all our products and processes. We make data easily accessible for our clients. At our Download centre you can find:
For maximum accuracy, credibility and reliability, we produce environmental product declarations (EPDs) for individual products rather than product families. We also make them easily available – access our full EPD list.
A full EPD for each product gives you a more accurate and traceable report for calculating and proving environmental impacts.
Interested to learn more about what to expect of a good EPD? Click to read our article with 5 recommendations that will help you asses the quality of the EPD.
Want to get more in-depth knowledge about EPDs and Green Buildings? Read our articles below.
All suppliers produce Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). But they aren’t all equal. Many are produced for product families, instead of individual products. Here are a few of our recommendations for what to expect of a good EPD.
EPDs provide a wealth of information on a product's environmental impact, including greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, water use, and waste generation. This information can be used to compare the environmental performance of different products and to identify areas for improvement in product design and manufacturing processes.
Deciding which sound absorbing product to choose for a building used to be a fairly simple business. Assessing trade-offs between acoustic performance, design and budget were the primary considerations. But now we know that every product in a building has an additional cost for the indoor and outdoor environment. It has become imperative that we look beyond the acoustics and take environmental impacts into account as well.
People spend more time indoors than ever before, impacting on our physical and mental health due to noise, a lack of natural light, poor air quality and limited exercise. The WELL Building Standard, which aims to improve health and wellbeing in occupants, is evidence that buildings of the future will be designed increasingly for the people that occupy them.
Getting a building certified by a Green Building Certification Scheme (eg. LEED, BREEAM, etc) is a complex process. This makes tools for helping projects get certified an essential step in reaping the many benefits of building green. One such tool is a Green Building Scorecard.
Interest in health and well-being in the workplace is rapidly rising. The only building certification that focuses on these issues, Well, is growing constantly. Not least in Spain.
When the real estate company Castellum planned to refurbish their regional office in Stockholm, they aimed to design an excellent workplace.
Hiukkavaara Community Centre’s defining feature is its versatility. The school building, designed for 700 pupils, houses not only a primary and lower secondary school with 350 pupils, but also a day-care centre and preschool, a youth centre, and a school library.
