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CPA Sustainability
Briefing Documents
A comprehensive resource for the construction industry
Construction Products Association challenges to the deployment of products ongoing discussions about EPR for
(CPA) continues to carry out great in domestic retrofit, which it identifies as packaging.
Twork on sustainability, and their preventing potential new solutions from For the benefit of those concerned
website at www.constructionproducts.org.uk contributing to the rapid upscaling of about this topic, the Environment Agency
contains many useful resources to help retrofit, needed for the UK to meet its net published a regulatory position statement
you in your work with partners to improve zero carbon targets. (RPS) in February which can be viewed
the sustainability performance of your own In February the CPA hosted a webinar here.
businesses. on this topic, and it seems likely that the The most recently-published
Earlier this year the CPA joined delivery of innovation for Net Zero in
RetroNetZero RS&IN, a collaborative the retrofit context is set to be a topic of Sustainability Briefing Documents from
network aiming to unlock the adoption of growing importance in the coming years. the CPA cover the topic of Environmental
sustainable innovation in domestic retrofit. The CPA has also been actively Product Declarations (EPDs) and are fairly
RetroNetZero RS&IN is an Innovate UK- involved in lobbying regarding Extended technical in nature, but may nonetheless
funded project now in its implementation Producer Responsibility (EPR). Working be useful for those who wish to
phase, having successfully completed its alongside the Contract Flooring understand a little more about how EPDs
discovery phase in 2024. The Network Association and other key players, the work and specifically how they can be
sets out to explore the regulatory CPA represents the industry through compared.
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EPD - Uncertainty & Comparability between EPD – Uncertainty, November 2024
https://www.constructionproducts.org.uk/publications/sustainability/epd-uncertainty-comparability-between-epd-uncertainty/
EPD - Uncertainty & Comparability between EPD – Comparability, August 2024
https://www.constructionproducts.org.uk/publications/sustainability/uncertainty-comparability-between-epd-comparability/
Treatment of Biogenic Carbon Content in EPDs, March 2024
https://www.constructionproducts.org.uk/our-expertise/sustainability/decarbonisation-and-net-zero/treatment-of-biogenic-carbon-
content-of-construction-products-in-environmental-product-declarations-epd/
I’m a manufacturer – how do I go about getting an EPD? March 2024
https://www.constructionproducts.org.uk/our-expertise/sustainability/sustainability-measurement-and-reporting/i-m-a-
manufacturer-how-do-i-go-about-getting-an-epd/
Types of Environmental Product Declaration and their Advantages and Disadvantages, February 2024
https://www.constructionproducts.org.uk/our-expertise/sustainability/sustainability-measurement-and-reporting/types-of-
environmental-product-declaration-and-their-advantages-and-disadvantages/
Aside from EPDs, other Sustainability Briefing Documents published during 2024 covered the following topics:
What is meant by the construction product lifecycle, February 2024
https://www.constructionproducts.org.uk/our-expertise/sustainability/sustainability-measurement-and-reporting/what-is-meant-by-
the-construction-product-life-cycle/
What is upfront carbon? March 2024
https://www.constructionproducts.org.uk/our-expertise/sustainability/decarbonisation-and-net-zero/what-is-upfront-carbon/
Earlier documents include:
How much waste is produced by the construction sector? August 2022
https://www.constructionproducts.org.uk/our-expertise/sustainability/resource-efficiency-zero-avoidable-waste-and-the-circular-
economy/how-much-waste-is-produced-by-the-construction-sector/
New Plastic Packaging Tax, April 2022
https://www.constructionproducts.org.uk/our-expertise/sustainability/resource-efficiency-zero-avoidable-waste-and-the-circular-
economy/new-plastic-tax-april-2022/
CFA Guide to Sustainability 2025/26
