Permasteelisa Group achieves ninth Environmental Product Declaration for bespoke façades in London

To mark London Climate Action Week Permasteelisa Group has announced the achievement of its ninth bespoke Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for façades in the city.

In 2022, Dutch brand Scheldebouw achieved the world’s first-ever EPD for a custom-designed façade for the Nova N2 building in London – independent verification of Permasteelisa Group’s commitment to transparency and disclosing environmental performance, with the ultimate aim of reducing carbon emissions.

Since then, the Group has gone on to achieve no fewer than nine EPDs for façades in the city – from commercial towers like 8 Bishopsgate and 2 Aldermanbury Square, to the new Oriel specialist centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital. In some cases, the EPDs have been awarded for façade renovation projects, such as Citi Tower in Canary Wharf and 334 Oxford Street in the West End.

The latest EPD was achieved by Permasteelisa in Italy for the bespoke unitised façade at 33 Charterhouse Street, aka The JJ Mack Building. Detailed analysis of raw materials, suppliers, plant locations, transport, energy use, waste, packaging and site activities helped to shape the façade’s design. The team considered the environmental impact of the façade’s full lifecycle, calculating embodied carbon from product manufacture and installation through to use and end-of-life. As a result, the façade played a key part in the creation of one of the capital city’s most sustainable office buildings.

Permasteelisa Group’s Head of Sustainability, Anna Foden comments: “While the customised nature of our work could seem like an obstacle to creating EPDs, we saw an opportunity to transform this perceived barrier into an advantage. Early lifecycle analysis provides clients with powerful opportunities to optimise environmental performance through informed choices on materials, suppliers and production. This information ultimately becomes a dual asset: informing the final, bespoke EPD and, more critically, acting as a dynamic design tool.

“We’re proud that our expertise is helping to create increasingly sustainable façades and reduce the whole-life carbon emissions associated with London’s buildings.”

View Permasteelisa Group’s EPDs in Europe here: MRPI EPD-overzicht