Landscape Forms, North America’s leading designer and manufacturer of high-design site furniture, structure, LED lighting and accessories, is proud to introduce its Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) program offering standardized, verified assessments of the company’s products’ environmental impact across all stages of their life cycles. 

Environmental Product Declarations are standardized, third party-verified documents that report the environmental impacts of a product based on the product’s life cycle analysis. EPDs provide the insights, data, and baselines needed to enable emissions reduction policies, drive better practices across industries, and enhance the holistic understanding of a project's environmental impact.

Every new EPD provides more baseline data that is vital in efforts to reduce the carbon impacts of development and the broader environmental impacts of resource extraction. Part of the company’s ongoing commitment to sustainability, Landscape Forms’ EPD program serves to significantly enhance its internal sustainability efforts, help its customers make more informed decisions about the products within its portfolio, and set in motion a movement toward the greater transparency and standardization of product environmental impact data industry wide. 

"EPDs are considered to be the gold standard of environmental product information for good reasons,” describes Landscape Forms Sustainability Leader, Amy Syverson‑Shaffer. "These studies are going beyond the carbon footprint of our products to give us a holistic view of impacts across the full life cycle from cradle to grave. And in an industry like ours that doesn't yet have an established baseline of data, each study helps to define the benchmark,” she continues. "EPDs are vital to drive better practices across the industry, and developing them today in this product category is really a mark of taking key steps to lead and move us all forward.”

Conducted with third-party environmental and sustainability certification body, SCS Global Services, in accordance with the standards set forth by International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Landscape Forms’ EDPs disclose comprehensive product impact data across a range of impact categories. These categories include Potential for Global Warming, Acidification Potential, Eutrophication Potential, Ozone Depletion Potential, Photochemical Ozone (smog) Creation Potential, Ecotoxicity, Human Toxicity, and Land Use/Land Occupation.

Landscape Forms’ EPDs are available for download on the product pages of the company’s website. Additional information can be found in the EPD background report, detailing the investigated systems, the study parameters, data sources and quality assessment, impact assessment methodology, and the critical review.

About Landscape Forms 

Landscape Forms is the industry leader in integrated collections of high-design site furniture, structures, accessories, and advanced LED lighting. Since its founding in 1969 Landscape Forms has earned a reputation for excellent design, high quality products and exceptional service. Headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the family of brands includes Loll Designs located in Duluth, Minnesota; Summit Furniture in Monterey, California; and Kornegay Design in Phoenix, Arizona. It has sales representatives throughout North America, South America, the United Kingdom, Monaco, Australia, the United Arab Emirates and Asia. Landscape Forms collaborates with renowned industrial designers and consultancies, landscape architects, and architects to design and develop integrated collections of products that address emerging needs and help create a sense of place. Additionally, the company has formed global marketing partnerships with select companies that share its commitment to design. Landscape Forms has an installed base of products around the world. Clients include municipalities, hospitality, residential, transit centers, corporate, college and health care campuses; and familiar brand leaders such as Harvard University, LinkedIn, New York Central Park Conservancy, Bryant Park, Google, Coca Cola, Oculus, U.S. Tennis Association (USTA), Nike, National Museum of African American History (Washington, D.C.), Barclays Center, Adidas, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Microsoft, and Uber. Landscape Forms has been named one of the Best Workplaces in Manufacturing & Production for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 by Fortune magazine, Michigan Manufacturer of the Year for 2020 by the Michigan Manufacturers Association, and by 269 Magazine as one of Southwest Michigan’s Wonderful Workplaces.