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LEVA chair design by Foster + Partners for Mattiazzi
8 May 2021
LEVA chair design for Mattiazzi by Foster + Partners
Design: Foster + Partners, Architects, UK
Foster + Partners completes first EPD to encourage collaborators to embrace sustainability
As part of the practice?s first Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), Foster + Partners has completed a comprehensive life cycle assessment (LCA) of the LEVA chair designed for Mattiazzi. The industrial design and sustainability teams at Foster + Partners undertook this project with a view to encourage and challenge the manufacturers we work with to embrace more sustainable production processes.
LEVA Chair for Mattiazzi production in factory:
photo © Aaron Hargreaves / Foster + Partner
Chris Trott, Partner and Head of Sustainability, Foster + Partners: ?Foster + Partners has always been committed to advocating and selecting products that have clear environmental credentials. Therefore, EPDs offered a logical route for us to analyse the design and development of the LEVA chair, giving us a meaningful and incisive data that will inform our design processes as we strive towards a more sustainable approach.?
An EPD transparently reports comparable, objective, and third-party verified performance data on a series of environmental impacts including the global warming potential (GWP) generated during all life stages of the chair. This process of c...