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Environmental Product Declarations (DAP / EPD) with Air.e LCA and EFI certification

At Solid Forest, we help manufacturers and organizations convert their environmental data into robust, verifiable Environmental Product Declarations (DAP or EPD) ready for market communication.

We develop the Life Cycle Assessment that supports the declaration using Air.e LCA, the professional LCA software developed by Solid Forest to model products, calculate environmental impacts, and generate results prepared for auditing, publication, and decision-making.

In addition to preparing the EPD, Solid Forest can accompany you through the verification, certification, and registration process within the international Environmental Product Declaration program of the Environmental Footprint Institute (EFI), with which it collaborates. In this way, your company can have a type III environmental declaration based on LCA, aligned with international standards and published in a specialized program accessible from www.huellaambiental.org.

If you need an EPD to respond to customer requirements, access tenders, provide comparable environmental information, or reinforce the credibility of your commercial messages, we offer a comprehensive service: initial diagnosis, data collection, modeling in Air.e LCA, report drafting, support during verification, and guidance for certification and publication in EFI.

What is an Environmental Product Declaration?

An Environmental Product Declaration is a report verified by an independent third party that communicates the environmental profile of a product based on measurable data. Its development is globally standardized by the ISO 14025 standard, which defines the requirements for Type III labels.

Unlike Type I labels (ecolabels based on pass/fail criteria) or Type II labels (environmental self-declarations without external verification), the product EPD does not judge whether an item is “green”. Instead, it presents a complete inventory of objective impacts so that the buyer can compare solutions with informed criteria.

In the field of building and construction, the European standard EN 15804 specifies the product category rules (PCR) necessary to harmonize this calculation. This ensures that any indicator of emissions or consumption can be directly compared between different manufacturers.

EPD preparation process with Solid Forest

At Solid Forest, we take on the comprehensive management of the project, combining our experience of more than 15 years in Life Cycle Assessment, environmental footprint, and software development with a practical vision oriented toward verification. We have worked on environmental studies and EPDs for diverse industrial sectors, allowing us to anticipate technical requirements, resolve inventory doubts, and prepare documentation consistent with the product category rules and the chosen verification program, including the Environmental Footprint Institute.

1. Product Life Cycle Assessment (technical basis)

The LCA is the technical basis of every EPD. In this phase, we collect and analyze data on system inputs and outputs: raw materials, energy consumption, transport, production processes, waste, and end-of-life scenarios. To guarantee maximum technical precision and streamline the calculation of indicators, we model the study with Air.e LCA, our professional Life Cycle Assessment platform, developed by Solid Forest and prepared to work with international methodologies and standards such as ISO 14040, ISO 14044, ISO 14067, and EN 15804.

In this first step, we identify the critical points of your production process to structure the environmental inventory under standards such as ISO 14040 and ISO 14044. In this way, we guarantee the reliability of the data that will serve as the basis for calculating your product’s environmental footprint.

Air.e LCA facilitates inventory traceability, scenario comparison, real-time impact calculation, and the generation of results ready to document an EPD. By working with the same software that we develop and use in our projects, we reduce uncertainties, accelerate technical review, and provide greater control over data quality.

2. Report drafting according to applicable PCR

Each sector is governed by specific Product Category Rules (PCR) that set the calculation and reporting instructions. Our team drafts the report, adapting the results of the life cycle study to the structure required by the corresponding PCRs and the selected verification program, maintaining consistency between the model created in Air.e LCA, the calculated indicators, and the information to be presented to the market.

We translate the environmental indicators (such as carbon footprint, resource use, or waste generation) into the standardized format required by the regulations. This ensures a transparent, homogeneous, and fully comparable document within your industrial sector.

3. Verification by an independent third party

The prepared report is submitted for examination by an independent accredited verifier. Solid Forest accompanies the company during this technical audit, responding to observations and justifying the source of the data until the compliance report is obtained.

Our consultants resolve any technical requirements from the auditor to speed up review times. This comprehensive support ensures that the Type III environmental declaration meets the highest criteria of rigor and official validity.

4. Publication in the official registry

Once verification is passed, we accompany you in the certification, publication, and registration of the declaration in recognized programs. Among the available options, Solid Forest offers the possibility of certifying and registering the DAP/EPD in the international program of the Environmental Footprint Institute (EFI), an entity with which Solid Forest collaborates and whose program promotes the transparent communication of environmental impacts of products and services based on Life Cycle Assessment. Program information can be found at www.huellaambiental.org.

Once registration is complete, your product will have an official, verifiable, and publicly consultable environmental profile, ready to be presented to B2B clients, public tenders, technical specifiers, or building certification schemes. Additionally, we advise you on communicating the results and managing future EPD revisions.

Why obtain an EPD?

Obtaining an EPD with Solid Forest does not just mean hiring the drafting of a document: it means working with a team specialized in LCA, with experience accumulated since 2009, in-house capacity to develop professional software, and practical knowledge of verification and registration processes. This combination of consulting, methodology, Air.e LCA, and collaboration with EFI provides technical security in all phases of the project.

Having an officially certified EPD offers direct competitive and regulatory advantages for manufacturers operating in technical and regulated markets. Environmental Product Declarations allow for the presentation of verifiable and comparable environmental information to customers, administrations, and other agents in the value chain.

• Access to public tenders: Administrations incorporate green public procurement criteria that reward or require environmental information backed by rigorous analysis.

• B2B customer requirements: Large companies and developers request these reports from their suppliers to calculate the environmental footprint of their own supply chains.

• Compliance with the Construction Products Regulation (CPR): Facilitates adaptation to EU requirements on the environmental performance of construction materials.

• Market differentiation: Allows any ecological claim to be backed by verifiable data, avoiding accusations of greenwashing.

• Building certifications: Grants additional points in real estate sustainability assessment systems such as LEED, BREEAM, or VERDE.

• Greater commercial trust: An EPD prepared with a solid and verifiable LCA helps demonstrate your product’s environmental commitment with objective data, avoiding generic messages and facilitating technical conversations with clients, specifiers, and auditors.

Sectors we work in most

At Solid Forest, we have more than 15 years of experience developing environmental analyses, product footprints, and Environmental Product Declarations for different sectors. This track record, combined with the use of Air.e LCA and knowledge of verification programs such as EFI, allows us to adapt each EPD to the technical, regulatory, and commercial requirements of each industry.

Construction and building

Concrete, insulation, ceramics, technical carpentry, and steel or concrete structures adapted to the EN 15804 directive.

Industrial materials

Metal processing, technical plastics, wood components, and synthetic coatings.

Containers and packaging

Cardboard solutions, recycled plastics, glass, and complex packaging for global distribution.

Chemical industry

Resins, paints, construction additives, industrial detergents, and pharmaceuticals.

Agri-food and livestock

Processed foods, beverages, feed, and agricultural or livestock products oriented toward supply chain transparency.

Pharmaceutical and biotechnology

Synthesis of active ingredients, medicines, medical devices, and technical conditioning processes.

Why choose Solid Forest to prepare your EPD?

Because an Environmental Product Declaration requires much more than applying a template. It requires understanding the product, correctly defining the system, selecting representative data, interpreting the applicable PCRs, and preparing a report that can pass an independent technical verification.

Solid Forest provides the security of a company specialized in Life Cycle Assessment since 2009 and developer of Air.e LCA, professional Spanish LCA software used in EPD projects, carbon footprint, water footprint, eco-design, and environmental assessment of products and services.

Our collaboration with the Environmental Footprint Institute allows the EPD to be oriented toward its certification and registration within the international EFI program, created to facilitate objective analysis and transparent communication of environmental impacts associated with the life cycle of products and services. This possibility is especially useful for companies seeking a verifiable, public environmental declaration aligned with the demands of customers, administrations, and international markets. More information at www.huellaambiental.org.

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