Verified EPDs - Real-Time LCA Docs

A verified EPD is a material that is backed by a published Environmental Product Declaration document. Use this option when you have the EPD PDF, the declaration number, and the publication and validity dates. Make sure the Published tab is selected at the top of the Create Material form.

Create Material form with the Published tab selected, an Extract From PDF action, and the General Details, EPD Specification, EPD Units, and EPD Sources sections. — Create Material — Published tab, General Details and EPD specifics

Step 1: General details

Field	Notes
Name (required)	The name shown in the Library. Use the same name as the EPD.
Life Time (required)	Expected service life in years.
Owner (required)	The manufacturer or organization that issued the EPD.
Data Source (required)	The upstream database, for example EPD Danmark or Ökobaudat.
Description	A short text shown on the material detail panel.

Step 2: EPD specification

Field	Notes
Publication date (required)	The EPD’s official publication date.
Valid To (required)	The end of the EPD’s validity window.
Type (required)	Product, Industry, or Generic.
Specification (required)	The standard the EPD follows, for example EN15804+A2.

Step 3: EPD units

Field	Notes
Declared value (required)	The numerical declared quantity from the EPD.
Unit (required)	Unit for the declared value (for example, m², m³, kg).
Mass value (required)	The mass per declared unit.
Unit (required)	Mass unit (typically kg).

Step 4: EPD sources

Published form showing EPD declaration number and version, the documentation upload, the biogenic carbon fields, and the start of the environmental impacts table. — Declaration number, documentation, and biogenic carbon

Field	Notes
Source URL (required)	A link to the EPD page or registry entry.
Category (required)	The material category that drives filtering and grouping.
EPD Declaration Number (required)	The unique identifier from the EPD document (for example, S-P-06627).
EPD Version	The version printed on the EPD.
Upload Documentation (required)	Click Choose File and upload the EPD PDF. This is what readers see when they click the PDF badge on the material row.

Step 5: Additional information

Field	Notes
Biogenic carbon content product	Kilograms of biogenic carbon per declared unit, used for reporting.
Biogenic carbon content packaging	Kilograms of biogenic carbon in packaging per declared unit.

Step 6: Life cycle indicators

This is the bulk of the work. Four tables take the values straight off the EPD, module by module (A1–A3, A4, A5, B1–B7, C1–C4, D):

Table	What goes in it
Environmental impacts per declared unit	The core indicators — GWP_TOTAL, GWP_BIOGENIC, GWP_FOSSIL, GWP_LULUC, ODP, AP, the EP family, POCP, ADPM, ADPF.
Additional environmental impacts per declared unit	The optional set — PM, IRP, ETP_FW, HTP_C, HTP_NC, SQP.
Resource use per declared unit	PERE, PERM, PERT, PENRE, PENRM, PENRT, SM, RSF, NRSF, FW.
Waste categories and output flows per declared unit	HWD, NHWD, RWD, CRU, MFR, MER, EEE, EE, EET.

Additional environmental impacts, resource use, and waste categories tables on the Published form, each with a column per life-cycle module. — The lower indicator tables

Leave a cell as - when the EPD does not report that combination — an empty cell is not the same as a zero. Each table is wider than the screen, so scroll it horizontally to reach the later modules.

You do not have to type all of this. Extract From PDF at the top of the form reads the EPD document and fills the tables for you — then check what it proposes against the document before saving.

Step 7: Save

When you are ready, click Create Material at the bottom of the form. The material appears in the Library immediately with a PDF badge linking to the document you uploaded. Discard, bottom left, abandons the form — Real-Time LCA confirms before throwing away your entries.