Why EPDs are becoming essential in Singapore's built environment
As embodied carbon moves to the center of sustainable construction, manufacturers face growing pressure to provide verified, comparable environmental data for their products. Procurement requirements, green building certifications, and corporate decarbonization targets are converging on a single instrument: the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD).
This session brings together Alvin Tan, Associate Director of Market Development at Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC), Ms. Yap Ee Gin, Lead Carbon Strategist at Climate Asia, and Isaiah Fong, Business Development Manager APAC at One Click LCA, to give manufacturers, developers, and sustainability professionals a practical view of the EPD landscape: where industry expectations are heading, how to structure an effective EPD program, and how digital tools make the process faster and more consistent at scale.
What You’ll Learn:
- Why carbon transparency is now a market requirement: How green building certification systems, including SGBC's Singapore Green Building Product (SGBP) scheme, are driving demand for verified product-level carbon data.
- How to structure a successful EPD strategy: Product group selection, system boundary definition, data readiness assessment, and the common failure points that derail EPD projects before they start.
- How to run an LCA and generate an EPD using One Click LCA: A live platform demonstration covering data input, life cycle assessment calculations, and EPD-ready output generation.
- How EPDs create business value beyond compliance: Using carbon data for product positioning, tender competitiveness, procurement differentiation, and alignment with ESG reporting requirements.
- What comes next in carbon-based procurement: Forward-looking perspective on benchmarking, carbon-based specification, and the direction of regulatory and market pressure in the region.
Who should attend the webinar:
- Manufacturers of construction products seeking to develop EPDs for the Singapore and broader Southeast Asia market.
- Sustainability and ESG managers responsible for product carbon footprint reporting and green building certification support.
- Developers and contractors evaluating EPD data in procurement and specification decisions.
- LCA and environmental consultants advising clients on EPD strategy and program execution.
- Anyone beginning to navigate EPD requirements under Singapore's green building framework.