Emission factor from EPD Danmark EPD, product-specific
Double glazing unit - 33.1-16-4t
Europe · EPD total · Reference year 2023
Each square metre of this product counts as 60.7 kg CO₂e over the modules its EPD declares: 58.6 to make it (A1–A3) and 2.09 at end of life.
Value per square metre, over the modules the EPD declares
60.7kgCO₂e/m²
EN 15804 modules A1 to A3 · Fossil only · GWP100 · AR5
Derived by open-climate.ai: the sum of EPD Danmark's published parts
The one scenario this EPD declaresReference year 2023
- Region
- Europe
- Boundary
- EPD total
- Data quality
- HighRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · EPD Danmark terms
- Declared by
- Scanglas A/S
Where 60.7 comes from
- A1-A3 Product stageScope 3, cat. 158.696.6%
- End of lifeDerived by open-climate.aiScope 3, cat. 52.093.4%
- Outside the scopes−4.62beside
Σ 60.7: the two declared modules add up to the total. D stays beside it.
Reporting this square metre under the GHG Protocol
This period
Scope 3, category 1 58.6
You buy the product for a building that is not yours. The product and its installation go to category 1, the delivery to category 4. The use stage belongs to the building owner; demolition waste you handle is category 5.
Later, when it happens
At end of life, in the year of demolition
- End of life Scope 3, category 5 2.09
Outside the scopes, reported separately
- D −4.62
A4, A5, B1 to B7 and C1 to C4 are not declared: nothing to report.
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Materials › Glass and ceramics · Europe · per m² · Supplier-specific
EPD total · Fossil only · AR5
- BoundaryEPD totalThe sum of every EN 15804 module an EPD declares, when that set is not the complete A-C grid (MOD-0034). Learn more
- EPD total
- Raw materials, inbound transport, fuel supply, fuel combustion, manufacturing, packaging, purchased energy and end of life
- GWP methodWhich IPCC assessment report's warming potentials convert each gas to CO₂e, and over how many years the warming is counted (GWP100: 100 years). Learn more
- IPCC AR5, 100-year horizon
- Not on the record; set from EPD Danmark's method notes · impact method EF 3.0
- CO₂e basisWhich carbon the CO₂e counts. Fossil only leaves out biogenic CO₂ and land use; net total counts every pool, net of removals. The same activity on two bases is two different numbers. Learn more
- Fossil only
- Split by carbon origin, not by gas
- Life cycle
- Upstream: coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: not coveredEnd of life: partly covered
High quality · Open licence · Any year
Module by module, up to the total
Seventeen EN 15804 modules, always in the same order. Each declared one moves the running total. D sits below zero after the total, because it is reported beside it.
beside the total, not in it
| Module | Name | Per square metre | Running total | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A1-A3 | Product stage | 58.6 | 58.6 | Declared |
| A4 | Transport to site | not declared | 58.6 | Not declared |
| A5 | Installation | not declared | 58.6 | Not declared |
| B1 | Use | not declared | 58.6 | Not declared |
| B2 | Maintenance | not declared | 58.6 | Not declared |
| B3 | Repair | not declared | 58.6 | Not declared |
| B4 | Replacement | not declared | 58.6 | Not declared |
| B5 | Refurbishment | not declared | 58.6 | Not declared |
| B6 | Energy in use | not declared | 58.6 | Not declared |
| B7 | Water in use | not declared | 58.6 | Not declared |
| C1 | Demolition | not declared | 58.6 | Not declared |
| C2 | Waste transport | 0.0955 | 58.6955 | Declared |
| C3 | Waste processing | 1.97 | 60.6655 | Declared |
| C4 | Disposal | 0.0213 | 60.6868 | Declared |
| Total | EPD total, declared modules | 60.6868 | Sum of the declared modules | |
| D | Beyond the system boundary | −4.62 | not added | Beside the total, not in it |
What this number covers
Follow one square metre of this product through EN 15804's stages. The total counts what the EPD declares; what it leaves out stays visible.
A1-A3Product
Materials and making the product
Included58.6A4-A5Construction
Delivery and installation
Not declaredB1-B7Use
The product in service: maintenance, repair, replacement and the energy and water it uses
Not declaredC1-C4End of life
Waste transport to disposal; C1 not declared
C2 to C42.09DBeyond the boundary
Recovery after end of life
Not in the total−4.62
Outside this boundary
- Installation
- Maintenance
- Outbound transport
- Retail
- Use phase
- Recycling credit
Maintenance is out because B2 is not declared. The recycling credit is module D, shown beside the total.
Gases
- Fossil CO₂e60.7
- Biogenic CO₂e1.56
- Land-use CO₂e0.049
The total counts fossil CO₂e. EPD Danmark reports biogenic and land-use CO₂e separately; they are shown beside it, not added.
From EPD Danmark's record to a comparable factor
EPD Danmark publishes this EPD as one declared value. Each field as printed, and what open-climate.ai made of it.
The total and its modules
Use a module on its own when you report it in a different year or scope; never add one to the total.
About this factor
From EPD Danmark
SCANGLAS producerer 2-lags energiruder som anvendes i byggeri. EPD’en inkluderer 15 rudeopbygninger, som varierer i glastype, glastykkelse samt afstandslister.Source and licence
- Value
- Summed by open-climate.ai from its parts
- Publisher
- EPD Danmark (Teknologisk Institut)
- Published
- 2 October 2026
- Valid until
- 31 December 2028
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Cite this factor
EPD Danmark (Teknologisk Institut), EPD data from https://data.epddanmark.dk. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/epd_danmark/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-epddanmark-double_glazing_unit-europe-m2-epd_total-b850d780/?v=efv1-40db5e9a139981aff8014c44de1d948c
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