An independent verification process increases the reliability and credibility of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) results considerable.  ESU-services offers verifying environmental product declarations (EPD) as an approved individual verifier for different EPD platforms.

EPD verification according to EN15804 as an approved individual verifier for different organisations

It is essential for the market acceptance of EPD that the data and other environmental information given are considered reliable and trustworthy. The underlying data, the data handling and the EPD itself should therefore be subject to an independent verification and official registration.

The international EPD® System, KBOB and IBU-Bau list Niels Jungbluth as an approved individual verifier. Furthermore, he is also listed as approved pre-verified tool verifier for EPD international. We also work for other systems like PEP. Thus, ESU can verify LCA-based data, additional environmental information and the EPD® written in English and German.

EPD platforms for publication of environmental product declarations

The EPD owner must register with an operator to register and publish the EPD. This organisation sets the fees which depend, among other things, on the number of EPDs published. The following table shows platform operators for registration and publication of EPDs with which ESU cooperated in the past.

	System	Region	Focus
	The international EPD®system (environdec)	GLO, English and other languages	All types of products
	EPD South-East Asia	Asia	All types of products
	IBU-Bau	DE and German speaking,	Building products
	KBOB, ecobau and IPB	CH, German and English	Building products
	PEP ecopassport (product Environmental Profile)	FR, GLO	Electric and electronic products
	Product environmental Footprint (PEF)	EU	Consumer products

Questions for providing an offer on EPD verification

Dr. Niels Jungbluth has a great deal of experience in verifying environmental product declarations. The actual cost for an EPD verification depends on the following factors (please provide more information if not yet available):

• Which products are declared?
• Standard against which verification is performed (ISO 14040, EN 15084, etc.)
• PCR that is applied
• Which platform is foreseen for the EPD publication (e.g. environdec, IBU, KBOB, PEP ecopassport, etc.)?
• Number of pages in the background LCA report and EPD statement to be read?
• How many EPDs are based on one LCA report?
• Which stages (A-D) and substages of EPD reporting in upstream, core, downstream and reuse sections are modelled?
• Number of newly modelled process steps?
• Availability of the life cycle inventory analysis (preferably complete export from SimaPro)?
• Experience of the authors with reviewed and verified LCA/EPD studies?
• Desired personal meetings, telcos, etc.?

For questions, you can book the date for a meeting. If you are located in another time zone, you can switch to your time zone (below the calendar). This will should show you correctly slot in your time zone. You should receive an email with a calendar invitation and Teams link after choosing the time and date. Please check your Spam folder if you do not receive such an invitation, or contact us by Email answering the questions above.