In this article, we'll show you how to add images to your company account so they can be used to auto-generate in your EPD document.
Creating consistent Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) requires ensuring accurate and uniform images and text across all upload locations.
This feature is part our Pre-verified EPD Generator and EPD Hub tools, and can also be enabled for non-preverified users when our delivery service for verifying and publishing your EPD is used.
Additionally, images and visuals can also be managed at the project level in the EPD visuals tab to ensure they appear correctly in published EPDs, and including them in your Word report ensures they are visible in the final document.
To navigate to your company account, please click on your username in the top right corner and select 'Company account'. Please note that you must be a Main user of your company account to do this.
You can add the images in the Brand and EPD visuals tab, shown below:
Images uploaded here can later be linked to specific projects in the 'EPD visuals' tab at the project level, ensuring correct visibility in the final EPD.
Step 1: Give the image a name
Step 2: Choose the image file from your device
Step 3: Select either boxed or full page image
Step 4: Select the image type; Product, Manufacturing diagram or Brand
Step 5: Click upload
NOTE: Product images appear on the cover page of the EPD, Manufacturing diagrams are added after the description of the manufacturing process, and Brand images (or logo) is added in the right-hand side of the header on every page of the EPD.
For the Word report, ensure the same images are embedded, as their inclusion is important for consistency and visibility in the final EPD.
Here are some examples:
These images can then be chosen in the EPD generation query in your project's design using the dropdown menus in section 2. EPD Visuals:
When you select images from here, they will auto-generate in the EPD document that can be downloaded from the design's results page.
To maintain accuracy, ensure that all uploaded visuals are consistent between the project-level 'EPD visuals' tab, Word reports, and the company account.