How are EPDs
granted?
There are fi ve steps in EPD development:
1. Defi ning the strategy to ensure that the EPD is right for both the
manufacturer and the customer.
2. Collecting manufacturing, transport, and end of life data for Life
Cycle Assessment.
3. Conducting and verifying the Life Cycle Assessment to evaluate the
environmental impact throughout a product’s life stages. The LCA
presents a comprehensive view of the raw materials, energy, water,
waste generation, pollutant emissions and any other component
consumed in sourcing, production, and use of the product. The LCA is
verifi ed by an independent party to ensure it meets the requirements
defi ned in the Product Category Rules. The background Report or
LCA report is also prepared at this stage.
4. Modelling the EPD using an EPD program operator. The EPD
essentially shows the LCA results with additional information about
contents of the product and other sustainability information.
5. The completed EPD is submitted for an independent third-party
verifi cation through an EPD program operator. Third-party verifi cation
involves a review of the presented results and additional information
in reference to the used PCR. After verifi cation, the EPD is submitted
to the program operator to be processed, registered, and published.
WHAT INFORMATION DOES EPD
CONTAIN?
EPDs could be compared to nutritional
values you fi nd on food labels. While
the food labels declare the amount of
nutrients, EPD is a tool that provides you
with information which you need to make
comparisons and informed product choices
from the environmental point of view.
An EPD gives the summary of a
product’s carbon footprint and its
potential impact on climate change, ozone
depletion, acidifi cation of land and water,
eutrophication (an impact of water pollution),
photochemical ozone creation and the
depletion of abiotic resources. EPDs can
also include other relevant environmental
and health-related impacts.
WHAT EPDS DOES PEIKKO HAVE?
Although the process of creating EPDs is
long and complex, the benefi ts are worth it.
To date, we have chosen to create EPDs for
the painted and galvanized DELTABEAM®
Green, PETRA® Green, as well as connecting
parts and steel structures.
Peikko Group's
EPD documents:
The re-usability of
bolted connections
now verifi ed by DEKRA!
The confi rmation
covers Peikko HPKM®
16, 20 and 24.
CONFIRMATION
DEKRA Assurance Services GmbH hereby confirms
Peikko Group Corporation
P.O.Box 104, Voimakatu 3, 15101 Lahti, Finland
the verification for the re-usability of the product HPKM® Column Shoe (HPKM16,
HPKM 20, HPKM 24)1, of the category "Bolted Column Connection", on the basis of
the following documentation2 provided by Peikko to its customers on its website:
Doc. 1: Technical_Manual_HPKM Column Shoe.pdf
Doc. 2: Peikko_WhitePaper_Bolted connections for precast structures.pdf
Doc. 3: Video_Peikko_Bolted Connections_Reuse.pdf
Doc. 4: Peikko_leaflet_circular_2019.pdf
Doc. 5: Peikko_WhitePaper_CircularFuture_2018.pdf
Concluded is that the documentation on the re-usability of the product
HPKM® Column Shoe 16, 20 and 24 is provided in
full and is available on Global the (English).website:
Peikko Group
The confirmation 990521033 is valid for Peikkos Colum Shoes HPMK 16, 20 and 24
from 2021-05-03 to 2022-05-02.
Stuttgart, 2021-05-03 Confirmation Number: 990521033
DEKRA Assurance Services GmbH
ppa.
.
Simona Gläser | Management
1 The applicable
disassembly to Column test was carried
Shoes HPKM out 20 and exclusively 24.
for assemblies made of HPKM 16. The Disassembly procedure is also 2 All documents are available at www.peikko.com.
DEKRA Assurance Services GmbH – Handwerkstraße 15 – 70565 Stuttgart – Germany
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