Lodestellar — EPD quality resourcesArticles and research on EPD quality, EPD verification, and getting more from Environmental Product Declarations.https://www.lodestellar.com/CPR, EPBD, DoPC: a plain-language guide to the rules making EPDs mandatoryhttps://www.lodestellar.com/resources/cpr-epbd-dopc-explained/https://www.lodestellar.com/resources/cpr-epbd-dopc-explained/What the Construction Products Regulation (CPR), the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), and the Declaration of Performance and Conformity (DoPC) mean for EPDs — the key dates, and what manufacturers should do now.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTISO 14025:2026 is not the hard part. The transition is.https://www.lodestellar.com/resources/iso-14025-2026-transition/https://www.lodestellar.com/resources/iso-14025-2026-transition/How the ISO 14025:2026 transition will reach EPD programmes in waves — what changes for EPDs, PCRs, and verification, and who checks the PCRs.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTMore Light Doesn't Mean Better Navigation: The Case of Mandatory EPDshttps://www.lodestellar.com/resources/mandatory-epds/https://www.lodestellar.com/resources/mandatory-epds/Mandatory EPDs will flood the market with environmental data. When quality is invisible, demand settles at the lowest bar — how to make EPD quality legible.Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTManufacturers won't prioritise EPD quality until they can see ithttps://www.lodestellar.com/resources/manufacturers-epd-quality-visibility/https://www.lodestellar.com/resources/manufacturers-epd-quality-visibility/Manufacturers won't prioritise EPD quality until they can see it. Why speed and cost win today, and how AI makes EPD quality visible and comparable.Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat 5,700 Verification Comments Taught Me About Where EPDs Actually Go Wronghttps://www.lodestellar.com/resources/5700-verification-comments/https://www.lodestellar.com/resources/5700-verification-comments/Analysis of 5,700 EPD verification comments across 169 projects. Documentation gaps, not modelling errors, are where EPDs actually go wrong.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTWood contains the amount of carbon that wood contains: what 40 timber EPDs revealed about biogenic carbon reportinghttps://www.lodestellar.com/resources/timber-epds-biogenic-carbon/https://www.lodestellar.com/resources/timber-epds-biogenic-carbon/40 verified timber EPDs cross-checked on biogenic carbon reporting: 11 had issues on a basic mass-balance check. What went wrong and how to catch it.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat You Cannot See in an EPDhttps://www.lodestellar.com/resources/what-you-cannot-see-in-an-epd/https://www.lodestellar.com/resources/what-you-cannot-see-in-an-epd/75 published EPDs checked against four EPD transparency basics — electricity assumptions, biogenic carbon, dominant contributors, and data quality.Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT