Construction

FDES, PEP, RE2020, INIES database: Highlight the environmental performance of your products.

How can you ensure your construction products comply with the RE2020 regulations?

FDES and PEP: Essential for Securing Your Market Share in Bidding Processes

When designing their projects, engineering firms, architects, and real estate developers calculate the overall carbon footprint of buildings. They directly retrieve environmental data on building components from the INIES database using FDES and PEP data sheets. Without specific data sheets, your products may be penalized in RE2020 calculations and become less competitive

  • Avoid Penalty-Inducing Default Data: If your products lack their own environmental declarations, regulations will apply very high flat-rate carbon values to them. They instantly become less competitive and risk being excluded by project owners
  • Gain access to major construction projects: By providing recognized environmental data that designers can use, you ensure that your solutions are included and specified in RE2020 calculation software.
  • A regulatory challenge… but above all a business one: Our deliverables are tools designed to secure your sales, set you apart from the competition, respond precisely to market needs, and anticipate regulatory changes.

Operational solutions for publishing your products in the INIES database while taking your industry-specific circumstances into account

  1. Optimizing Data Collection

    There’s no need to start from scratch for each product. We structure the information-gathering process by leveraging your common components and materials to efficiently map out your product lines without repeating time-consuming steps.

  2. Decision Support in R&D and Eco-Design

    We precisely identify your key areas of impact. This allows you to simulate different material options (such as incorporating recycled materials) or audit your supply chain to improve your performance during the design phase.

  3. Bringing Your Innovations to Market

    We translate your industrial efforts into official, certified environmental metrics that engineering firms can use immediately and that meet market requirements.

FDES, PEP ecopassport®, EPD: Your Turnkey Environmental Declarations

Preparation of Environmental and Health Declaration Forms (FDES)

  • Tailored support, from data collection through verification and publication, to certify your building materials, insulation, woodwork, paints, concrete, and construction systems.

Preparation of PEP ecopassport® fact sheets

  • The mandatory declaration for your electrical equipment, lighting fixtures, solar panels, and building systems (elevators, air conditioning, ventilation systems, etc.).

Preparation of EPDs for the international market

  • Impact modeling to develop environmental profiles tailored to your products, support your export markets, and meet the requirements of various international EPD programs.

Registration in the INIES database

  • Once your records have been validated by an independent verifier, we ensure they are submitted to the official INIES database. It is this availability that gives your initiative its full business value in the eyes of your customers.

The Eco-Design Assessment: Get Funding for Your Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Eco-Design Initiatives with Bpifrance

Take advantage of Bpifrance co-financing to measure the environmental impact of your products and eco-design them

Because ensuring your products comply with RE2020 requires resources, Kapstan helps you access government financial programs to reduce your out-of-pocket costs:

  • Attractive grant through the Eco-Design Assessment: Kapstan is certified by Bpifrance to conduct this assessment. This program helps fund a significant portion of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and eco-design of your construction products
  • A continuous improvement process: Beyond measuring impacts, we help you identify concrete eco-design strategies: optimizing materials, incorporating recycled materials, comparing design variants, extending product lifespan, or analyzing the supply chain.
  • An approach tailored to your level of maturity: The Eco-design Assessment is often a first step. It provides reliable data, helps prioritize actions, and enables you to gradually implement an environmental improvement strategy consistent with your industrial constraints and internal resources

Why do construction companies choose Kapstan?

  1. Business Focus and Prescription

    We view RE2020 as a driver of growth. Our role is to turn your regulatory constraints into selling points, making your materials attractive and easy for project owners to specify.

  2. Understanding the Building Ecosystem

    We bridge the gap between your industrial constraints (bill of materials, supplier data) and the specific requirements of architects, construction cost estimators, and HVAC engineering firms.

  3. From the Factory to the INIES Base

    We deliver operational results. You receive data sheets (FDES or PEP) that have been verified by an independent third party and officially registered in the INIES database, ready to be immediately incorporated into contractors’ calculations.

Any questions?

They connect to the INIES database to retrieve the FDES and PEP data for the products they wish to include in the building’s LCA. If your hardwood floors, insulation, lighting fixtures, or heat pumps are listed there with good carbon performance ratings, they become the top choice for their RE2020 calculations.

Your products are subject to extremely unfavorable Default Environmental Data (DED), which artificially overstate their carbon footprint (sometimes by as much as three times). Even with a competitive price, your solution risks being rejected by project owners because it would worsen the overall carbon footprint of their real estate project.

We map your components and design simplified matrices for your suppliers. This outsourced approach ensures a secure process and reduces the workload on your internal teams (R&D, Quality, Purchasing).