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Emission factor from EPD Ireland EPD, industry average

Aluminium Louvered Systems

Ireland · Cradle to grave, embodied · Reference year 2024

Each kilogram of this product counts as 14.2 kg CO₂e over the modules its EPD declares: 13.6 to make it (A1–A3), 0.44 to deliver and place it (A4, A5) and 0.19 at end of life.

Value per kilogram, over the modules the EPD declares

14.2kgCO₂e/kg

EN 15804 modules A1 to A5 · Fossil only · GWP100 · AR5

Derived by open-climate.ai: the sum of EPD Ireland's published parts

The one scenario this EPD declaresReference year 2024

Region
Ireland IE
Boundary
Cradle to grave, embodied
Data quality
MediumRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · EPD Ireland terms
Declared by
QEF Ltd
Declared unit
Served per kilogram ÷ 1,000

Where 14.2 comes from

Derived by open-climate.ai

Σ 14.2: the four declared modules add up to the total. D stays beside it.

Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol

This period

Scope 3, category 1 14 Scope 3, category 4 0.0228

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 0.19

Outside the scopes, reported separately

  • D −8.04

B1 to B7 and C1 to C4 are not declared: nothing to report.

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Materials › Metals · Ireland · per kg · Average

Cradle to grave, embodied · Fossil only · AR5

Boundary
Cradle to grave, embodied
Raw materials, inbound transport, fuel supply, fuel combustion, manufacturing, packaging, purchased energy, installation, outbound transport and end of life
GWP method
IPCC AR5, 100-year horizon
Not on the record; set from EPD Ireland's method notes · impact method EF 3.0
CO₂e basis
Fossil only
Split by carbon origin, not by gas
Life cycle
Upstream: coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: partly coveredEnd of life: covered

Medium 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.

kgCO₂e per kilogram. Each bar starts where the one before ended. Pick a module to read it.
Product
Con­struc­tion
Use
B1 to B7not de­clared
End of life
C1not de­clared
C4not de­clared
Beyond the boundary

beside the total, not in it

Scenarios and units

Some EPDs price a module under several scenarios, such as different end-of-life routes. Each gets a tab, and each module's default is marked.

This factor

One scenario, as declared

Every module has one value, so there is nothing to choose.

  • Per t, as declared14,213.8
  • Per kilogram, served14.2138

What this number covers

Follow one kilogram of this product through EN 15804's stages. The total counts what the EPD declares; what it leaves out stays visible.

  1. A1-A3Product

    Materials and making the product

    Included13.6

  2. A4-A5Construction

    Delivery and installation

    Included0.44

  3. B1-B7Use

    The product in service: maintenance, repair, replacement and the energy and water it uses

    Not declared

  4. C1-C4End of life

    Waste transport and waste processing; C1, C4 not declared

    C2, C30.19

  5. DBeyond the boundary

    Recovery after end of life

    Not in the total−8.04

Outside this boundary

  • Maintenance
  • 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 CO₂e14.2
  • Biogenic CO₂e0.0395
  • Land-use CO₂e0.168

The total counts fossil CO₂e. EPD Ireland reports biogenic and land-use CO₂e separately; they are shown beside it, not added.

From EPD Ireland's record to a comparable factor

EPD Ireland publishes this EPD with one value per module. 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.

You are here · the EPD total14.2
D beside−8.04
The four modules add up to the total; D stays beside it. Each opens its own page.

About this factor

From EPD Ireland

What it is

The dataset is representative for the production processes used in 2023. The data Quality Level, according to Table E.1 of EN 15804 +A2, Annex E, is as follows: • Time Representativeness is considered to be good • Geographical Representativeness is considered to be very good • Technical Representativeness is considered to be very good Allocation of energies, electricity types and amounts to the various manufacturing processes has been provided by QEF, along with production waste; allocation of impacts to the products is based on the product mass The cut-off criteria of section 6.3.6 of EN15804 +A2 have been followed.

What it includes

Ecochain version 4.3.0 Ecoinvent version 3.8

Where it applies

This EPD is for one tonne of installed QEF aluminium louvered systems. The louvered systems are manufactured from bespoke extruded aluminium profiles, which are initially cut to prcise lengths, and then powder coated and assembled in to 1.1 x 1.1 m2 panels, for installation on building facades. The QEF aluminium louvered systems are used as facades on buildings. The Representative Product of this EPD is 1,000 kg of powder coated aluminium profiles assembled in a louvered system, with a mean aluminium element thickness of 1.8 5mm, and powder coating thickness of 70 micron on both faces. This Representative Product is based on production at QEF where 90% of aluminium material used is 1.8 mm thick, and 5% each is 3.0 mm and 1.6 mm thick. The aluminium is extruded aluminium alloy 6063 T6. The powder coating is polyester. The manufactured systems are tested, and comply to, EN 13030:2001 Ventilation for buildings. Terminals. Performance testing of louvres subjected to simulated rain. The manufacturing process comprises receiving lengths of extruded aluminium profiles from the supplier. Upon receipt of the profiles they are cut for assembly as a louvered system. Before final assembly, the cut profiles are powder coated. After powder coating they are assembled into the final louvered systems for installation on the building facade. The assembled louvres are loaded onto a lorry at the manufacturing plant site, where they are supported by and tied to rigid frames, for onward delivery to the customers. There is no packaging used in the supply of these products to the market. The panles are installed manually on to the building facades. Unused aluminium off-cuts are sent off-site for recycling

Source and licence

Value
Summed by open-climate.ai from its parts
Publisher
EPD Ireland (Irish Green Building Council)
Library
EPD Ireland EPD_IRELAND_2026-10-02
Published
2 October 2026
Valid until
31 December 2029
See the source data at EPD Ireland
EPD Ireland's terms of use Open

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EPD Ireland (Irish Green Building Council), EPD data from https://epdireland.lca-data.com. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/epd_ireland/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-epdireland-aluminium_louvered-ie-kg-cradle_to_grave_embodied-ce54d536/?v=efv1-da75fa0157307ab4b5572eb66035bee3

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