Our EPD is here and what it means for your next project

We have published an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for our architectural terracotta, and it is now available to download from our website.

An EPD is a document based on a full life cycle assessment of a product — in our case, glazed terracotta, from raw material extraction through manufacturing and transport to site. Ours was developed in accordance with EN 15804 and EN ISO 14025, and based on a full cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment, and covers raw material extraction, manufacturing and transport to site.

For architects and specifiers, that matters. Whether you are responding to a client's sustainability brief, or need to evidence material choices at planning, the EPD gives you the data to do it, clearly, and in a format recognised across the industry.

As embodied carbon becomes a central consideration in UK construction procurement, the EPD gives design teams the material-level data needed to evidence specification choices at planning and beyond.

Jon Wilson, co-founder of Darwen Terracotta, said: "Terracotta is a natural material with a genuinely strong sustainability story, but 'natural' is not a number you can put in a carbon assessment. Publishing our EPD means specifiers working to sustainability targets no longer have to take our word for it. The data is there."

The EPD is available to download here