Recolight has announced the first date for a new LCA and EPD training workshop.

The one day, in-person session will run on 27th November in London. It will provide hands-on guidance for lighting manufacturers on Life Cycle Assessments and Environmental Product Declarations. The workshops will feature a roundtable environment with a maximum of 12 delegates, giving the opportunity for full interaction, feedback and questions for each topic.

They are intended to equip participants with the knowledge and tools needed to understand LCAs and EPDs for lighting products, the timescales, data requirements and how best to use product families to minimise costs. The importance of product specific rules and the role of the luminaire specific PSR-0014 will be covered in detail. There will be opportunities to see online LCA preparation in action, and will include case studies of luminaire LCA data, and use of a luminaire specific EPD creation tool.

Lighting designers, specifiers and end users are increasingly demanding credible third party certified environmental metrics. LCAs and EPDs are widely seen as the best way of meeting those needs. With an increasing number of lighting producers announcing that they have made LCAs and EPDs available, those that don’t act risk being left behind.

The workshop will be led by LCA expert and Recolight Environmental Metrics and Training Manager Dr Max Robson. Representatives of One Click LCA will also attend the event and will be able to answer questions regarding the operation of the automated One Click LCA system and the EPD Hub.

Commenting on the news, Recolight CEO Nigel Harvey said: “This workshop is intended to help lighting companies quickly get up to speed with LCAs and EPDs – to understand how to get started, what data they need to collect and how to simplify and speed up the process.”

For further information and to book a place contact training@Recolight.co.uk

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