In accordance with ISO 14025 and EN 15804 for: EchoPanel® and Mura™
Programme: EPD Australasia Ltd www.epd-australasia.com
Programme operator: EPD Australasia Ltd
EPD registration number: S-P-01162
Approval date: 2018-09-24
Revision date: 2021-04-07
Valid until: 2023-09-24
Geographical scope: Australia
Version: 1.5 - Colour additions to 12mm EchoPanel®, updates to branding/styling, operational footprint data, bottle count and inclusion of CDPH v1.2 VOC emissions results.
Woven Image was established in 1987 after identifying a strong need for design driven interior finishes. Based in Australia, they fast became a leading international business to business supplier of highperformance acoustic finishes and textiles for a wide range of commercial interiors across workspace, hospitality and education sectors. Woven Image has offices in Australia and Asia, and a large network of distribution partners across Europe, North America, the Middle East and beyond.
Environmentally-sensitive products and sustainability are at the core of the company and, because of Woven Image’s commitment, they became pioneers in producing high-performance acoustic finishes, wallcovering and textiles using recycled materials.
Today almost all Woven Image products have gained environmental accreditations from third-party organisations.
EPDs allow manufacturers to report quantified environmental performance information for their products. EPDs are internationally accepted and developed in-line with well-established International Standards to ensure rigour and transparency.
EchoPanel® TRIO & EchoPanel® 12mm in colourway #365
Because this EPD is EN15804-compliant and third-party reviewed, it is recognised by sustainability rating schemes across the globe.
• Green Star (Australia): EPDs can help obtain up to 19/100 points under the Sustainable Products credit of Green Star Interiors v1.2 and 3/100 in Design and As Built v1.2. This EPD can also be used in the LCA credit (up to 7/100 points) and the embodied carbon innovation credit (up to 3 points).
• LEED (US): EPDs are rewarded in up to 2/110 points under the Materials and Resources credit category of LEED v4. LEED. The EPD results can be used in the LCA Building Life-Cycle Impact Reduction.
• Green Globes (US and Canada): Under the Green Globe scheme, up to 10 points are available for fit-out and interior cladding products with EPDs.
• BREEAM (UK): EPDs can be used to increase the contribution of building elements to the score of the life-cycle Impact and the Insulation credits under the Materials section (12.5% of the score).
• EPDs can be used in green building schemes across the world, such as Lotus Interiors (Vietnam) and HQE (UK, Europe, Asia, North America and Middle East).
Woven Image has pro-actively sought to improve its own performance wherever possible and practical. In particular, we have established a set of guiding environmental principles that provide a framework for the environmental management of our processes, products and services.
Our guiding environmental principles are life-cycle oriented, dynamic and seek to embody the most current thinking and actions on achieving sustainable products and services within the context of what Woven Image (and its suppliers) can realistically control.
• Responsible resource use, including attention to biodiversity protection and other source related raw materials factors.
• Adopting a Product Stewardship approach and applying the waste minimisation hierarchy (avoid, reduce, reuse, recycle) as a tool to maximise resource use efficiency, use of post consumer recycled content and options for fundamental dematerialisation through waste avoidance and the shift to product-service solutions.
• Elimination or significant reduction in the use of hazardous substances and toxic materials.
• Elimination or significant reduction of emissions to air and water where possible.
• Minimising overall energy consumption while maximising energy efficiency and the potential for renewable and related ‘green power’ options.
• Minimising overall water consumption while maximising water efficiency, conservation and the potential for water reuse and recycling.
• Sourcing materials, products and services from suppliers with independently certified environmental management systems or similar.
• Providing designers, specifiers and customers with informative and educational information about the environmental performance of Woven Image products and services.
• Ongoing research and development to ensure Woven Image products and services represent leading edge environmental thinking, concepts, tools and performance. This includes relevant data collection, monitoring and reporting to facilitate overall environmental improvements.
The sustainable application of materials, products and services is a key priority at Woven Image. This means taking greater responsibility for Woven Image products both upstream and downstream of our core business activities. At a strategic level, Woven Image seeks to operate in a responsible and innovative way that exemplifies resource efficiency by using materials smartly and sensitively. Woven Image’s sustainable procurement.
practices seek to improve the environmental and social impacts of our operations by engaging with the whole life-cycle of textile products and services; selecting suppliers and/or products that have the minimal impacts for a particular class of product or service (including: manufacturers, distributors, equipment consultants and contractors). We not only strive to create low impact products, we are also developing systems and services to ensure our products do not contribute to future environmental problems when they are discarded or become obsolete. This includes ongoing attention to product life-cycle management and Product Stewardship specifically. Woven Image believes that all manufacturers and suppliers should take greater responsibility for their products and services beyond the point of sale and warranty.
Environmentally sound Product Stewardship activities at Woven Image acknowledge and act on the need to eliminate and/or minimise environmental impacts at all stages of the product life-cycle.
The process of working with customers and other relevant stakeholders on end-of-life requirements provides Woven Image with an unmatched opportunity to develop practical Product Stewardship measures that maximise environmental performance in a commercially viable manner.
Consistent with the waste management hierarchy, an essential element in our Product Stewardship approach seeks to maximise resource use efficiency including the use of post-consumer recycled content in new product as well as working towards significant levels of recovery, potential reuse and/or recycling of end-of-life Woven Image product.
Woven Image will strive to retain responsibility for Woven Image products wherever practical and within our scope of business activity.
Woven Image’s Environmental Management System has allowed us to reduce the significant environmental impacts of our administrative centre, warehouse and production facility and with the assistance of Greenfleet we have been able to offset what remains. Greenfleet is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to connecting people with real climate action. They are Australia and New Zealand’s most respected source of biodiverse carbon offsets (Greenfleet, 2018). For the 2019/20 financial year we were able to offset 186.1 tonnes CO2-e using Greenfleet’s programme.
Additionally, sustainability is at the core of the EchoPanel® and Mura™ brand ethos in the form of their commitment to recycling, upcycling, dematerialisation and a true cradle-tocradle environmental approach.
EchoPanel® and Mura™ products are made from up to 60% post-consumer waste sourced from recycled PET bottles.
During the financial year 2019/20, the production of EchoPanel® and Mura™ products resulted in 608 tonnes of PET being diverted from landfill, which equates to over 30.4 million 600ml bottles. The total PET diverted from landfill since the product went to market in 2004 is over 4839 tonnes, which is over 242 million bottles.
Furthermore, the PET is converted into EchoPanel® and Mura™ which boast a 10-year minimum life expectancy, after which the material is still 100% recyclable and reusable.
EchoPanel® is frequently used in workstations. Previously, these were typically made of MDF board with foam-backed fabric or other materials applied to the front and back. These additional materials were required to improve acoustic performance, make them pin-able and deliver against the overall design direction.
These challenges were similar with wall panelling applications. However, the characteristic of EchoPanel®; being lightweight, double-sided, pinable, and a fully finished material with superior sound absorption qualities, means that its use offers the significant environmental, and cost saving, benefits of dematerialisation.
At the start of their life-cycle, EchoPanel® and Mura™ use post-consumer PET waste, helping to reduce the generation of waste and energy necessary to produce it in comparison to virgin PET.
At the end of its life-cycle, a workstation using EchoPanel®, for example, is easy to dismantle and separate into the relevant recycling streams when compared to fabriccovered substrates, which are often contaminated with adhesives and fasteners.
at the base of the hopper melts the pellets to form a free-flowing resin.
EchoPanel® and Mura™ are landmark brands from Woven Image which have been designed to deliver against environmental, aesthetic and acoustic criteria to improve the overall look, feel and comfort of a commercial interior space.
EchoPanel® can be used as a panel or tile applied directly to the wall, as a room or space divider, in workstations, as a ceiling baffle or a variety of other applications where both good design and acoustic performance are required.
Mura™ is an innovative, cost effective and easy to install wallcovering. The face side has been designed to create a smooth, clean designer look whilst the back has been engineered with a forgiving texture that can be adhered to a variety of surfaces.
Both the EchoPanel® and Mura™ range come in a wide colour palette as well as a variety of printed designs. EchoPanel® and Mura™ are printed with environmentally preferable pigment inks that have been specially tailored to deliver excellent light fastness while remaining lowVOC, non-flammable and non-toxic. Mura™ can also be embossed to create a subtle textured result perfect for contemporary interiors.
EchoPanel® and Mura™ both hold first-class performance ratings to ensure their suitability for high traffic commercial applications. These include a Group 1 rating in the ISO 9705 full-scale room fire test and a Noise reduction Coefficient (NRC) rate of up to 0.85 (with a 50mm air gap) for EchoPanel® in 24mm thickness, demonstrating its sound absorbing qualities.
EchoPanel® and Mura™ products achieve Global GreenTag™ GreenRate level A certification, and Product Health Declaration™: Platinum Health, for plain colours. This attracts the maximum multiplier in the sustainable products credits under GBCA’s Green Star rating tool.
The importance of good acoustics in an interior space are widely recognised to impact comfort in a bar or restaurant, for example, overall employee productivity in an office environment. It is therefore essential to address acoustic performance at the initial design stage.
The EchoPanel® and Mura™ family of products are optimised for acoustic performance, thanks to their substantiated Noise Reduction Coefficient (NRC) ratings. Furthermore, their high-end, fully finished, fabric-like appearance means that they deliver on function and design without the need for any additional extras.
EchoPanel® and Mura™ are low VOC products. Both ranges have been tested to ASTM D5116 and CDPH Standard Method v1.2 with significantly low VOC emission rates results of <0.02mg/m²/hr, which are well below the Green Building Council of Australia Green Star Interiors
V1.1 – 12.1.2B and Green Star Design & As Built V1.1 – 13.1.2B emission rate limit of <0.5mg m² hr. TVOC emissions rate of 0.054mg/m³ and Formaldehyde emissions rate of 2μg/m³ which are well below the LEED, WELL™ and BREEAM emissions limit requirements.
Table 1: EchoPanel® products included in this EPD
Table 1: EchoPanel® products included in this EPD
Table 1: EchoPanel® products included in this EPD
Table 2: Mura™ products included in this EPD
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Table 2: Mura™ products included in this EPD
Visit www.wovenimage.com to view performance test reports and full product specifications including print repeat details, where relevant, for the EchoPanel® and Mura™ range of products.
Visit wovenimage.com to view a comprehensive care guide for the EchoPanel® and Mura™ range of products.
Woven Image is unequivocal in its commitment to the lifecycle management of its products. This means developing and delivering practical take-back and recycling solutions for Woven Image products when they reach end-of-life.
In very practical terms this means that Woven Image will take back all uncontaminated textiles, EchoPanel® and Mura™ for recycling from disassembled chairs, workstations and partitions. This includes off cuts, used textiles and panel at end-of-life. Unless otherwise negotiated the customer is responsible for freighting the product to Woven Image in Sydney.
‘Uncontaminated’ refers to end-of-life or residual (off cuts and unused) textiles or EchoPanel® where there is nothing on or stuck to the product to make it impure or ‘contaminated’ in the recycling process.
Examples of potential recycling contaminants generally include adhesives, toxic substances, finishes, coatings and any other additive or material that compromises the recycling of the textiles or EchoPanel®.
With regard to printed EchoPanel® product, Woven Image will take back product that we have printed for the customer as we use print houses that use environmentally preferable dyes that will not compromise end-of-life recycling processes.
As part of our Product Stewardship approach, Woven Image collaborates with Australian and overseas furniture manufacturers to streamline end-of-life recovery and recycling by sharing knowledge and R&D information that makes collection, potential reuse and recycling commercially viable and environmentally advantageous.
EchoPanel® boards and Mura™ rolls are manufactured in Australia by Woven Image’s supplier. They are manufacture from post-consumer recycled PET (discarded packages/ bottles) fibre and virgin low melt point PET fibre.
The manufactured products are transported by road to Woven Image for storage, quality assurance and preparation for distribution.
Plain EchoPanel® are sent for printing in Australia, while Mura™ rolls are sent by sea to China for printing. The panels are then returned to Woven Image for distribution.
The printing process uses energy (natural gas, electricity and LPG), pigments, ink (water based), binder (acrylic), water and plastic bales.
EchoPanel® and Mura™ are distributed worldwide through international sales offices, Australian sales offices and international distribution partners. Because of the variability of the distribution according to destination market, this module has not been assessed in this EPD.
The impacts associated with product installation, use and deconstruction are assumed to be negligible and have not been assessed in detail in this EPD.
There is very limited data available from Woven Image’s extended producer responsibility product take-back scheme. For this reason, the conservative assumption is that 100% of the products go to landfill, which corresponds to the final disposition of the product (Module C4). The distance to landfill is assumed to be on average 25km (Module C2).
The life-cycle of a building product is divided into three process modules according to the General Programme Instructions (GPI) of the Australasian EPD Programme (AEPDP, 2015) and four information modules according to ISO 21930 and EN 15804. The scope of the EPD is “cradle to gate with options” as defined by EN 15804 – the specific system boundary is shown in Figure 2.
The intent of the EPD is to cover the production of panels (Modules A1- A3) and the end-of-life of the products. Figure 3 presents the stages that are included or not declared in this EPD.
The following life-cycle stages have not been assessed, as they are deemed negligible, not applicable or too variable for EchoPanel® and Mura™:
• Transport (A4): the variability of this module is too high because the products are shipped globally, and the impact depends on final destination.
• Construction/installation process (A5): Emissions from this module are considered negligible.
• Material emissions from usage (B1): There are no expected emissions from the installed EchoPanel® and Mura™:
• Maintenance (B2) and Repair (B3): The installed panels are not maintained or repaired, at least not according to any systematic and/or foreseeable regime over the product service life; therefore, the maintenance and repair are assumed to be zero for the purpose of this LCA.
• Replacement (B4): The installed panels are not replaced, at least not according to any systematic and/ or foreseeable regime over the product service life; therefore, the amount of repair is assumed to be zero for the purpose of this LCA.
• Refurbishment (B5): The installed panels are not refurbished, at least not according to any systematic and/or foreseeable regime over the product service life; therefore, the amount of refurbishment is assumed to be zero for the purpose of this LCA.
• Operational Energy (B6) and Operational Water Use (B7): There is no energy or water use for the installed panels, at least not according to any systematic and/ or foreseeable regime over the product service life; therefore, the amount of refurbishment is assumed to be zero for the purpose of this LCA.
• Reuse, recovery, recycling potential (D): Because the assumption is that 100% of the products go to landfill, this module is not applicable at the moment.
A summary of the life-cycle assessment parameters is given in Figure 3. Life-cycle Assessment (LCA) requires a compilation of the inputs, outputs and environmental impacts of a product system throughout its life-cycle. LCA can enable businesses to identify resource flows, waste generation and environmental impacts (such as climate change) associated with the provision of products and services.
Life-cycle thinking is a core concept in sustainable consumption and production for policy and business.
For this EPD, the selected scope is cradle to gate with options, for a declared unit of 1m2 of product. The results can be used for comparative assertions between Woven Image products with comparable function and assessment scope.
Life-cycle data has been sourced first hand:
Data Source Quality
Collected by EchoPanel® & Mura™ producer’s staff & Woven Image staff.
Panels: retrieved from EchoPanel® & Mura™ producers EPD. Energy: Woven Image staff & printing companies’ staff.
Upstream and downstream consequences of decisions must be taken into account to help avoid the shifting of burdens from one type of environmental impact to another, from one political region to another, or from one stage to another, in a product’s life-cycle from the cradle to grave. According to EN 15804, EPDs of construction products may not be comparable if they do not comply with this standard, and EPDs might not be comparable, particularly if different functional units are used.
• Upstream data on fabricated panel inputs was retrieved from Woven Image supplier’s EPD;
• Core manufacturing data was collected directly from Woven Image and its different suppliers, pertaining to activity in 2016/2017 Financial Year;
• Product properties, applications and recyclability information retrieved from Woven Image catalogue and material safety data sheets.
Supplier locations provided by Woven Image. Distances calculated with online tool. Transport specifications assumed from Ecoinvent 3.5 processes.
inside Australia & overseas to China1
Collected by Woven Image staff & printing companies’ staff.
• These data sources and the quality of each module is presented in Table 5 below. 1 Only for
Based on results of Woven Image’s ‘Take-Back Programme’
Generic background data was sourced for end-of-life module, which was adapted to represent Woven Image product as accurately as possible. Raw materials and transport were obtained from the producer’s EPD 2018. Data were primarily modelled with the AusLCI (AusLCI, 2017) and ecoinvent 3.5 (Ecoinvent Centre, 2016) databases. All background data used was less than 10 years old.
Environmental impacts relating to personnel, infrastructure, and production equipment not directly consumed in the process are excluded from the system boundary as per the PCR CPC 54 Version 2.2.2017-05-30 (EPD International, 2017). All other reported data were incorporated and modelled using the best available life-cycle inventory data.
Allocation was carried out in accordance with the PCR (EPD International, 2017). No-allocation between co-products in the core module was used, as there were no co-products created during manufacturing.
Mura™ printed in China
Mura™ non-printed rolls
EchoPanel® 7mm printed
EchoPanel® 7mm non-printed
Due to the vast number of products in this project, (Tables 1 and 2) these have been grouped according to similar characteristics and type of products. For all groups, one representative product was selected for the publication of results according to highest sales in the 2016/17 Woven Image’s financial year.
The groups, products within each and the selected products are presented in Table 6 below. The products are separated between Mura™ and EchoPanel®. Within Mura™ there are two groups, nonprinted and printed. EchoPanel® are separated by thickness, and within each thickness if the panels are non-printed or printed. In addition to the results in the following section, the maximum variation in results for each group is presented in Appendix A.
The LCA report has been updated from previous work developed in 2018, with updated colours and background data from ecoinvent 3.3 to ecoinvent 3.5 and AusLCI 2017. The update in background data affects all the products (although not significantly).
Dart pattern, Haku pattern, Kome pattern, Otto pattern Nami pattern, Otto pattern,
Non-printed
Frequency pattern, Hex pattern,
Non-printed
EchoPanel® 12mm printed on one side Puzzle pattern
EchoPanel® 12mm printed on both sides
EchoPanel® 12mm non-printed
EchoPanel® 24mm non-printed
Frequency pattern, Hex pattern,
Non-printed
Black Hex pattern
Black non-printed
Coloured Puzzle pattern
Coloured Hex pattern Tilt pattern, Trapeze pattern, Trio pattern, Astro pattern
Non-printed
Non-printed
Coloured non-printed
Coloured non-printed
This section presents the potential environmental impacts, use of resources and waste production of 1m2 of the representative Woven Image products, according to the grouping presented on page 26.
Table 7: Mura™ Otto wallcovering per 1m2
KEY:
GWP = Global Warming Potential I ODP = Ozone Depletion Potential I AP = Acidification Potential I EP = Eutrophication Potential I
POCP = Photochemical Oxidant Formation Potential I ADPE = Abiotic Resource Depletion Potential – Elements I
ADPF = Abiotic Resource Depletion Potential – Fossil Fuel I
Table 9: 7mm EchoPanel® HEX per 1m2
Table 10: 7mm EchoPanel® non-printed per 1m2
Table 11: 12mm EchoPanel® Tilt per 1m2
Table 13: 12mm EchoPanel® non-printed per 1m2
Table 12: 12mm EchoPanel® Puzzle printed on one side per 1m2 A1-A3
TABLE 14: 24mm EchoPanel® non-printed per 1m2
(MJ)
16: Mura™ wallcovering non-printed per 1m2
KEY:
PERE = Use of renewable primary energy excluding raw materials I PERM = Use of renewable primary energy resources used as raw materials I PERT = Total use of renewable primary energy resources I PENRE = Use of non-renewable primary energy excluding raw materials I PENRM = Use of non-renewable primary energy resources used as raw materials I PENRT = Total use of non-renewable primary energy resources I SM = Use of secondary material I RSF = Use of renewable secondary fuels I NRSF = Use of non-renewable secondary fuels I FW = Use of net fresh water I INA = Indicator not assessed I
Table 17: 7mm EchoPanel® Hex per 1m2
(MJ)
Table 18: 7mm EchoPanel® non-printed per 1m2
(MJ)
PERM (MJ) 0
KEY:
(MJ)
PERE = Use of renewable primary energy excluding raw materials I PERM = Use of renewable primary energy resources used as raw materials I PERT = Total use of renewable primary energy resources I PENRE = Use of non-renewable primary energy excluding raw materials I PENRM = Use of non-renewable primary energy resources used as raw materials I PENRT = Total use of non-renewable primary energy resources I SM = Use of secondary material I RSF = Use of renewable secondary fuels I NRSF = Use of non-renewable secondary fuels I FW = Use of net fresh water I INA = Indicator not assessed I
Table 19: 12mm EchoPanel® Tilt per 1m2
Table 20: 12mm EchoPanel® Puzzle printed on one side per 1m2
(MJ)
(MJ)
KEY:
PERE = Use of renewable primary energy excluding raw materials I PERM = Use of renewable primary energy resources used as raw materials I PERT = Total use of renewable primary energy resources I PENRE = Use of non-renewable primary energy excluding raw materials I PENRM = Use of non-renewable primary energy resources used as raw materials I PENRT = Total use of non-renewable primary energy resources I SM = Use of secondary material I RSF = Use of renewable secondary fuels I NRSF = Use of non-renewable secondary fuels I FW = Use of net fresh water I INA = Indicator not assessed I
Table 21: 12mm EchoPanel® non-printed per 1m2
Table 22: 24mm EchoPanel® non-printed per 1m2
PERT (MJ) 6.05E+00 7.52E-03 1.05E-02
KEY:
(MJ)
PERE = Use of renewable primary energy excluding raw materials I PERM = Use of renewable primary energy resources used as raw materials I PERT = Total use of renewable primary energy resources I PENRE = Use of non-renewable primary energy excluding raw materials I PENRM = Use of non-renewable primary energy resources used as raw materials I PENRT = Total use of non-renewable primary energy resources I SM = Use of secondary material I RSF = Use of renewable secondary fuels I NRSF = Use of non-renewable secondary fuels I FW = Use of net fresh water I INA = Indicator not assessed I
Table 23: Mura™ Otto wallcovering per 1m2
Table 24: Mura™ wallcovering non-printed per 1m2
Table 25: 7mm EchoPanel® Hex per 1m2
Table 26: 7mm EchoPanel® non-printed per 1m2
Table 27: 12mm EchoPanel® Tilt per 1m2
Table 28: 12mm EchoPanel® Puzzle printed on one side per 1m2
Table 29: 12mm EchoPanel® non-printed per 1m2
Table 30: 24mm EchoPanel® non-printed per 1m2
KEY:
Raw material supply and manufacturing (Modules A1-3) are the main contributor to the different impact categories analysed for all of Woven Image’s products, ranging from 98% to 100% of total impact, with the exception of non-hazardous waste, where the end-of-life (Module C4) represents the highest impact, because of the assumption that all products go to landfill at the end of their life.
Module A1, the raw materials, are mainly responsible for the impact, because of PET fibres and the energy used to process them.
Overall, non-printed panels have lower impact than their printing counterpart. When considering printing on both sides for 12mm EchoPanel®, the differences in potential impact, use of resources and generation of waste are between 0% and 3%, depending on impact.
Figure 4: Average contribution of modules A1-A3, C2 and C4 for an average of Mura™ wallcovering. Otto (China) and non-printed.
Figure 5: Average contribution of modules A1-A3, C2 and C4 for an average of EchoPanel® 12mm panels: Black and coloured Puzzle pattern (printed on one side), coloured Tilt pattern (printed on both sides), black Hex pattern (printed on both sides) and black and coloured non-printed.
Abiotic Depletion: impact of the uptake of resources in the world’s reserves of metals and of fossil fuels.
Acidification Potential: the impact of the emissions of acidic substances, namely the decrease in pH of soils and aquatic environments.
BREEAM: a sustainability assessment method for master planning projects, infrastructure and buildings used in the UK and Europe. It recognises and reflects the value in higher performing assets across the built environment lifecycle, from new construction to in-use and refurbishment.
End-of-Life (EoL): is a term used with respect to consumer products, indicating that the product is at the end of its useful life.
Energy Resources: this group of impact categories accounts for the cumulative energy requirements of renewable and non-renewable fuels.
Environmental Product Declaration (EPD): a thirdparty verified ecolabel that reports on the life-cycle environmental impacts of a product according to productspecific guidelines or Product Category Rules.
Eutrophication Potential: the impact of excessive nutrients (for instance nitrogen from fertilisers) in aquatic environments.
Functional Unit: expresses the function of the system being analysed in an LCA and is used to provide a scale to reported impacts.
Global Warming Potential: the impact of the emission of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere in the transformation of climate.
Greenhouse Gases: umbrella term for the different gaseous substances that are known to interfere with the Earth’s atmosphere’s ability to deflect radiation incoming from the sun, causing it to accumulate within the atmosphere, which leads to global warming.
Green Star: a sustainability rating scheme used in countries such as Australia and New Zealand that assesses the performance of buildings and fit outs across a range of sustainability issues.
LEED: similar concept to Green Star but operating in the United States of America and on a different evaluation framework, being hosted by the U.S. Green Building Council.
Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA): a framework to evaluate the environmental, social and economic impact of delivering a good and service.
Life-Cycle Inventory (LCI): the compilation of quantitative data that populates a life-cycle model, e.g. the amount in kg of a material going into a manufacturing process.
Life-Cycle Model: the representation of a production system that organises processes, inputs and outputs and that allows for the execution of a life-cycle assessment.
Noise Reduction Coefficient (NRC): an indication of acoustic performance, which measures the amount of sound absorbed by a surface in a scale of 0 (all is reflected) to 1 (all is absorbed).
Ozone depletion potential: the impact of ozone-depleting substances, such as some refrigerants, on the decline of ozone in the Earth’s stratosphere.
Product Category Rules (PCR): set of product-type specific guidelines to undertake life-cycle assessments conducting to EPDs.
Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET): a type of thermoplastic polymer, which can be processed by heat into fibres, packaging and engineered resins.
Photochemical Ozone Creation Potential: the impact of the emission of substances such as VOCs to the atmosphere, which merge with ozone and create smog.
Secondary Materials: resource use indicator conveying the recycled input into life-cycles.
System Boundaries: term used to describe the limits of the processes and materials that are included and excluded from a life-cycle assessment.
VOCs or Volatile Organic Compounds: designates a generic group of organic chemicals that commonly exists in vapour form and can be harmful to human health when in high concentrations.
Water Depletion: measures the impact of water use on available water resources.
See PCR for detailed requirements.
Programme:
EPD Australasia Ltd 315a Hardy Street, Nelson 7010, New Zealand www.epd-australasia.com
EPD registration number: S-P-01162
Published: 2018-09-24
Valid until: 2023-09-24
Product Category Rules:
PCR for Construction Products and Construction Services CPC 54 Version 2.2. 2017-05-30
Product group classification: UN CPC 54
Reference year for data: 2016/2017
Geographical scope: Australia
Product category rules (PCR): PCR for Construction Products and Construction Services CPC 54 Version 2.2. 2017-05-30
PCR review was conducted by: IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute Moderator: Martin Erlandsson, martin.erlandsson@ivl.se
Independent verification of the declaration and data, according
6 EPD Process Certification (internal) to ISO 14025:2006: 6 EPD Verification (external)
Third party verifier: Jane Anderson
ConstructionLCA Limited
3 Evergreen Drive, Caistor, LN7 6NS United Kingdom m: +44 (0) 7932 696077 email: jane@constructionlca.co.uk
Approved by EPD Australasia
• Exclusion of small amounts follow the rules of Product Category Rules of Construction Materials, and include the infrastructure, construction, production equipment and tools that are not directly consumed in the production process; and personnel related impacts. These are deemed negligible.
• No cut offs were necessary for the modules included in this EPD.
• The scenarios included are currently in use and are representative for one of the most likely scenarios alternatives.
• The EPD of construction products may not be comparable if they do not comply with the requirements of comparability set in EN 15804. EPDs within the same product category but from different programmes may not be comparable.
• For version 1.1 the LCA report has been updated from previous work developed in 2018, with updated colours and background data from ecoinvent 3.3 to ecoinvent 3.5 and AusLCI 2017. The update in background data affects all the products (although not significantly).
EPD Owner:
Woven Image Pty Ltd
37-39 Chard Road, Brookvale, NSW, 2100, Australia www.wovenimage.com info@wovenimage.com
LCA Author: Edge Environment Pty Ltd
Level 5, 39 East Esplanade, Manly, NSW, 2095, Australia www.edgeenvironment.com info@edgeenvironment.com
Programme Operator: EPD Australasia Ltd
315a Hardy Street, Nelson 7010, New Zealand www.epd-australasia.com info@epd-australasia.com
AWTA Product Testing. 2014. Test Report “EchoPanel® 24mm”. Method AS/NZS 3837:1998 Test for Heat and Smoke Release Rates for Materials and Products Using an Oxygen Consumption Calorimeter.
AWTA Product Testing. 2013. Test Report “EchoPanel® 12mm”.
Method AS/NZS 3837:1998 Test for Heat and Smoke Release Rates for Materials and Products Using an Oxygen Consumption Calorimeter.
AWTA Product Testing. 2011. Test Report “EchoPanel® Mura”. Method AS/NZS 3837:1998 Test for Heat and Smoke Release Rates for Materials and Products Using an Oxygen Consumption Calorimeter.
AWTA Product Testing. 2010. Test Report “EchoPanel® 7mm”. AS/NZS 1530.3 – 1999 Simultaneous determination of Ignitability, Flame Propagation, Heat Release and Smoke Release.
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Table 31: Variation between Otto Mura™ pattern and other patterns printed in China
LEGEND
GWP = Global Warming Potential I ODP = Ozone Depletion Potential I POCP = Photochemical Oxidant Formation Potential I AP = Acidification Potential I EP = Eutrophication Potential I ADPE = Abiotic Resource Depletion Potential – Elements I ADPF = Abiotic Resource Depletion Potential – Fossil Fuel I PERE = Use of renewable primary energy excluding raw materials I PERM = Use of renewable primary energy resources used as raw materials I PERT = Total use of renewable primary energy resources I PENRE = Use of non-renewable primary energy excluding raw materials I PENRM = Use of non-renewable primary energy resources used as raw materials I PENRT = Total use of non-renewable primary energy resources I SM = Use of secondary material I RSF = Use of renewable secondary fuels I NRSF = Use of non-renewable secondary fuels I FW = Use of net fresh water I HWD = Hazardous waste disposed I NHWD = Non-hazardous waste disposed I RWD = Radioactive waste disposed I CRE = Components for reuse I MRE = Materials for recycling I MER = Materials for energy recovery I EE = Exported energy I
Table 32: Variation between 7mm Hex EchoPanel® pattern and other 7mm printing patterns (average colour)
Impact Selected Variation From Selected Product: Category Product:
LEGEND
GWP = Global Warming Potential I ODP = Ozone Depletion Potential I POCP = Photochemical Oxidant Formation Potential I AP = Acidification Potential I EP = Eutrophication Potential I ADPE = Abiotic Resource Depletion Potential – Elements I ADPF = Abiotic Resource Depletion Potential – Fossil Fuel I PERE = Use of renewable primary energy excluding raw materials I PERM = Use of renewable primary energy resources used as raw materials I PERT = Total use of renewable primary energy resources I PENRE = Use of non-renewable primary energy excluding raw materials I PENRM = Use of non-renewable primary energy resources used as raw materials I PENRT = Total use of non-renewable primary energy resources I SM = Use of secondary material I RSF = Use of renewable secondary fuels I NRSF = Use of non-renewable secondary fuels I FW = Use of net fresh water I HWD = Hazardous waste disposed I NHWD = Non-hazardous waste disposed I RWD = Radioactive waste disposed I CRE = Components for reuse I MRE = Materials for recycling I MER = Materials for energy recovery I EE = Exported energy I
Table 33: Variation between 12mm Tilt EchoPanel® pattern and other 12mm printing patterns (average colour)
Impact Selected Variation From Selected Product:
LEGEND
GWP = Global Warming Potential I ODP = Ozone Depletion Potential I POCP = Photochemical Oxidant Formation Potential I AP = Acidification Potential I EP = Eutrophication Potential I ADPE = Abiotic Resource Depletion Potential – Elements I ADPF = Abiotic Resource Depletion Potential – Fossil Fuel I PERE = Use of renewable primary energy excluding raw materials I PERM = Use of renewable primary energy resources used as raw materials I PERT = Total use of renewable primary energy resources I PENRE = Use of non-renewable primary energy excluding raw materials I PENRM = Use of non-renewable primary energy resources used as raw materials I PENRT = Total use of non-renewable primary energy resources I SM = Use of secondary material I RSF = Use of renewable secondary fuels I NRSF = Use of non-renewable secondary fuels I FW = Use of net fresh water I HWD = Hazardous waste disposed I NHWD = Non-hazardous waste disposed I RWD = Radioactive waste disposed I CRE = Components for reuse I MRE = Materials for recycling I MER = Materials for energy recovery I EE = Exported energy I
