Artus Air gains Environmental Product Declaration accreditations across its heating and cooling solutions

Artus Air says that it has gained independent Environmental Product Declaration verification of its AR60 and AR75 products.

An Environmental Product Declaration is a standardised third-party verification which transparently reports across a product’s entire life cycle to assess its environmental impact. As a complex process of verification, particularly for a mechanical product, the achievement and recognition are significant and demonstrate a commitment from Artus Air to transparency in the source of its products impact and roadmap to further carbon reduction in the supply chain. It also demonstrates its carbon credentials to customers, developers, occupiers, and regulators.

The EPDs have yielded impressive results for the two key Artus products in operational, embodied and whole life carbon when compared across other ducted fan coil systems with existing EPDs. Across the two core products there is a 66% reduction in whole life carbon (18kg CO2e/m²), a reduction of 86% operational carbon (0.5kg CO2/m²) and 45% embodied carbon (7.9kgCO2/m²). For example, per Artus unit installed there is 610 kg CO2 saved, which is equivalent to travelling 3,036 miles in a car.

As part of the company wide strategy to reduce carbon in its product design, manufacturing and operational requirements, Artus Air has nominated a dedicated Carbon Champion to lead the company's Net-Zero roadmap, carbon R&D, and supply chain optimisation. This innovation and solutions-led approach is already helping projects meet their BREEAM, EPC, NABERS and LEED targets.

Roger Olsen, Artus founding fellow and inventor, commented: “My motivation for inventing Artus was to solve one of society’s greatest challenges: to reduce the amount of energy we all consume. Our sustainability ambitions are in line with the Paris Agreement, and innovation is the key to significantly reducing whole life carbon in the built environment. Our EPD accreditation proves we are delivering on our design ambition in plain sight of the whole industry; I am very proud to be able to say that.”