Digital Product Passports for construction products
What the revised Construction Products Regulation requires, which deadlines are enacted and which are indicative.
Read the Digital Product Passport guideDPP Readiness Program · powered by Data Framer
Get your product data ready for Digital Product Passports
We assess, structure and validate construction-product information so manufacturers know what is ready, what is missing and what needs to change before DPP requirements reach their product families.
With our DPP Readiness Program, you build the data, governance and technology foundation needed to become DPP-ready as the regulatory framework is implemented.
For European construction-product manufacturers - regulatory, product, sustainability, BIM and IT teams working on the same portfolio.
What you have today
- Product catalogue (PDF)
- Declaration of Performance
- Test certificates
- EPD, one product family
- ERP article numbers
- Spreadsheets
Structured product data model
- productIdentifierstable, unique
- declaredPerformancevalue + unit + method
- environment.gwpTotalEN 15804
- evidence.documentslinked, versioned
Member of the CIRPASS-2 Stakeholder Community, contributing to Expert Working Groups on the Digital Product Passport.
The difficult part of DPP readiness is not the QR code
Generating a data carrier is roughly a week of work, and a great deal of the tooling on the market solves exactly that - the part you were never going to struggle with.
What takes years is everything the carrier points at: structured product data, regulatory evidence, environmental and lifecycle information, identifiers that never get reused, clear data ownership, traceability, machine-readable values rather than documents, and systems and processes able to keep all of it current for as long as the products are in buildings.
Regulatory readiness
Where your evidence stands against what is enacted, and against what is only expected.
Product data readiness
Whether the information exists as structured, identified, machine-readable data.
Data validation
A versioned ruleset run per product family, producing findings rather than opinions.
Remediation roadmap
Sequenced work with owners, dependencies and indicative effort attached.
How the assessment works
Four phases, in this order. Each one produces something the next one uses, so nothing is assessed twice and nothing is planned before it is understood.
- 1
Assess
Find the product information you already hold, and where each piece actually lives.
- 2
Structure
Bring it into one agreed product data model - the same fields, units and identifiers everywhere.
- 3
Validate
Run the model against the readiness ruleset to see what is ready, missing or at risk.
- 4
Remediate
Fix the structural causes in a sequenced plan with owners, dependencies and effort.
Powered by Data Framer, the assessment converts existing product files into structured, traceable product data, so gaps can be assessed consistently rather than manually, document by document.
The Tylko DPP readiness model
The same architecture on every engagement, so results are comparable between product families, between sites and between one assessment and the next.
- 1
Client product information
Catalogues, declarations, technical files, test reports, EPDs, ERP and PIM records - in whatever shape they are in today.
- 2
Product Data Template and Product Data Record
The Product Data Template defines the reusable structure for a product class - properties, identifiers, datatypes, units, applicability and semantic mappings. The Product Data Record holds your actual values, evidence and approvals against a version of that template. The template is a component of the DPP data architecture, not the passport itself.
- 3
Validation and human approval
Versioned rules (2026.09) carrying requirement, status, legal reference and remediation guidance, run against the record. Unresolved conflicts and AI suggestions go to an authorised person; nothing is approved by the engine alone.
- 4
Readiness report
Scored by product family, with evidence found, evidence missing and why each gap matters to your business.
- 5
Remediation plan
Prioritised actions with owners, dependencies and indicative effort - the part that changes the answer next time.
- 6
Readiness Product Data Package
Template reference, populated record, evidence and provenance, validation results and approved output projections, bundled for review, handover, export or integration. A readiness and exchange bundle of ours - not an EU regulatory object.
- 7
Construction DPP, when the profile is active
Once the applicable CPR profile and product-family obligation are in force, the passport is generated from the approved canonical data above rather than authored again in a second system.
What feeds the assessment
Almost everything a passport will need already exists somewhere in the business. It is scattered across four or five functions, in formats chosen for printing, and keyed to identifiers that were never meant to leave the building.
Commercial and master data
- Product catalogue
- Product master data
- ERP records
- PIM content
- Product identifiers
- Manufacturer information
Regulatory evidence
- Declaration of Performance
- Declaration of Performance and Conformity
- Technical documentation
- Test certificates
- REACH information
Environmental and lifecycle
- EPDs
- EN 15804 lifecycle data
- Installation documentation
- Maintenance documentation
- End-of-life, reuse and recycling information
Digital and supply chain
- BIM and product objects
- Supply-chain information
One agreed product data model
One agreed description of each product - the same fields, units, test methods, variants and identifiers - held independently of any single system, so the same foundation can serve more than one purpose.
Which of these apply depends on your product families and markets. Not every dataset listed is legally required for every construction product today.
What Data Framer does with it
- 1Product Data Template - The reusable structure for a product class - properties, identifiers, datatypes, units, applicability and semantic mappings.
- 2Product Data Record - Your actual values, evidence and approvals, bound to a version of that template.
- 3Evidence that stays traceable - Every material value keeps a line back to the declaration, certificate, test report or approved input it came from.
Together these are the data foundation a future passport is generated from. The template is a component of that architecture, not the passport itself.
How we validate your product data
Every check returns a status, the evidence found, the evidence missing, why the gap matters, the basis for saying so, and who in the business owns the fix.
The result below is illustrative - a worked example of the output format, not a client’s data and not a legal finding.
1Structure
Is the information machine-readable, typed and complete enough for the selected template and profile?
2Semantics
Are product classes, properties, identifiers and units consistently understood?
3Requirements
Does the dataset carry what the applicable CPR, product-family and technical-reference profile asks for?
4Evidence
Can each material value be traced to a source, declaration, certificate or approved manufacturer input?
5Human decision
Unresolved conflicts and AI suggestions are reviewed and approved by an authorised person.
Assess product-data readiness against applicable CPR requirements, product-family technical specifications and emerging construction DPP requirements, while identifying where the same structured data can support sustainability reporting and other corporate data needs.
Data Framer combines deterministic validation with AI-assisted extraction and mapping. AI helps identify and explain gaps; it does not certify legal compliance or replace manufacturer approval.
Readiness validation - sample result
Ruleset 2026.09
23
Ready
7
Warning
5
Missing
4
Not applicable
Environmental performance data
Warning- Evidence found
- EPD for the main product family.
- Evidence missing
- No structured machine-readable mapping of environmental indicators to product variants.
- Why it matters
- Declared environmental characteristics are calculated on EN 15804 life-cycle rules, and the indicator set widens on enacted dates in 2030 and 2032.
- Recommended action
- Create a controlled environmental-data mapping aligned with product master-data identifiers.
- Responsible function
- Sustainability, with product master data
Unique product identifiers
Missing- Evidence found
- Internal article numbers, per market.
- Evidence missing
- No governed rule preventing reuse, and the same physical product carries different numbers in different markets.
- Why it matters
- The passport is reached through an identifier, so an identifier that is reused or renumbered points a reader at the wrong product.
- Recommended action
- Govern identifier issue, retirement and non-reuse in the ERP rather than in a policy document.
- Responsible function
- IT and product master data
Declaration of Performance and Conformity
Ready- Evidence found
- A current declaration resolves for every marketed product, held as fields rather than as a layout.
- Evidence missing
- Nothing outstanding.
- Why it matters
- The declaration is the document the passport is built around, so its structure sets the ceiling for everything downstream.
- Recommended action
- Hold the position: keep the field mapping current as conformity and environmental content phase in.
- Responsible function
- Regulatory affairs
Supplier data for key parts
Warning- Evidence found
- Supplier declarations on file as PDFs.
- Evidence missing
- No contractual data-delivery obligation at the next renewal.
- Why it matters
- Where key parts carry passports of their own, part of yours depends on data a supplier has to agree to provide.
- Recommended action
- Add data-delivery clauses to the supplier contract renewal cycle.
- Responsible function
- Procurement
ESPR ecodesign duties on the finished product
Not applicable- Evidence found
- Construction products take the CPR passport route, assessed separately.
- Evidence missing
- Nothing outstanding.
- Why it matters
- Flagged so the scope is explicit: exposure is assessed on input materials such as steel or aluminium, not on the finished product.
- Recommended action
- No action on this product family.
- Responsible function
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Your DPP Readiness Report
One document your board, your regulatory team and your IT function can each act on. The extract below is illustrative - one manufacturer’s own range, scored family by family, because obligations arrive family by family.
Tylko Advisors
DPP Readiness Report
Sample extract - one manufacturer’s cement and concrete range
Executive readiness score
54/100
Evidence largely exists. Structure, identifiers and lifecycle data are the constraints.
Product-family readiness
- Cement - bagged and bulk
- 71%
- Ready-mixed concrete
- 54%
- Precast concrete elements
- 38%
Remediation roadmap - first actions
| Prioritised action | Depends on | Indicative effort |
|---|---|---|
| 1.Govern the product identifier scheme in the ERP | None - start now | Medium |
| 2.Commission EN 15804 life-cycle data for two product lines | Verifier capacity | High, long lead time |
| 3.Map declared characteristics to defined data fields | Identifier scheme | Medium |
| 4.Add data-delivery clauses to supplier contracts | Contract renewal cycle | Low, slow |
And the reusable data foundation underneath it
- Product Data Template
- Populated Product Data Record
- Evidence and provenance
- Validation results
- Readiness Product Data Package, where in scope
The report is the decision view. These are what it is built on, and what a construction DPP would later be generated from once the applicable CPR profile is in force - rather than authored again in a second system.
- Executive readiness score
- One figure the board can act on, with the reasoning behind it.
- Product-family readiness
- Scored per family, because obligations arrive per family.
- Data completeness analysis
- Which required fields are populated, partial or absent.
- Regulatory gap analysis
- Each gap against its rule, its status and its legal reference.
- Evidence inventory
- Every declaration, test report, certificate and EPD located.
- Data-quality issues
- Duplicates, contradictions, unit errors and orphaned variants.
- Lifecycle and environmental gaps
- EN 15804 coverage against the enacted 2030 and 2032 steps.
- Product identifier assessment
- Stability, uniqueness and external resolvability of identifiers.
- Data ownership and governance gaps
- Who owns each dataset, and where nobody does.
- Systems readiness
- What ERP, PIM and document systems can and cannot carry today.
- Remediation roadmap
- Sequenced work with dependencies made explicit.
- Prioritised actions
- Ordered by dependency and lead time, not by ease.
- Indicative effort
- Ranges, so the plan can be resourced and budgeted.
- Regulatory-watch items
- What is still indicative, and what would change your answer.
Every finding carries its regulatory status
The revised CPR establishes the legal framework for Digital Product Passports for construction products. The detailed construction DPP system will become operational through EU delegated acts and implementing arrangements. Manufacturers can prepare now by structuring, governing and validating the product data that future DPPs will require.
Obligations activate family by family, not on one date for everyone. The Commission’s Q2 2027 milestone for the construction DPP delegated act is indicative rather than a deadline any manufacturer is working to, and no enacted act fixes a single date by which every construction product must carry a passport. Read our construction DPP timeline analysis, which sets out which dates are enacted and which are not.
So the methodology separates what is law from what is anticipated from what is simply sound practice, and never presents the second or third as the first.
How the CPR and the ESPR fit together
ESPR provides the horizontal EU architecture for Digital Product Passports. For construction products, the revised CPR establishes the sector-specific legal framework and requires the construction DPP system to be compatible and interoperable with the ESPR architecture. Construction products take the CPR route; the ESPR is the interoperability context around it.
- Required
- In force today under an enacted EU act, for the products and dates the act names.
- Expected / upcoming
- Anticipated from an adopted work plan or an indicative Commission milestone. Not yet an obligation, and the timing can move.
- Best practice
- No legal duty attached. Methodological judgement about what makes the data usable and maintainable.
- Not applicable
- Out of scope for this product family, this market or this assessment.
Ruleset extract
Version 2026.09
Declaration of Performance and Conformity (DoPC) available per product
ExpectedEvery marketed product resolves to a current declaration, with declared values held as fields rather than as text in a layout.
DPP-CORE-001 · Regulation (EU) 2024/3110, Art. 76; Art. 15 · On adoption of the family’s new harmonised technical specification · what the DoPC adds to the declaration
Persistent unique identification of the product type
ExpectedEach product type carries a persistent identification code that is not reused, merged or renumbered across the catalogue, and never resolves to two product types.
DPP-CORE-002 · Regulation (EU) 2024/3110, Art. 76 · On adoption of the family’s new harmonised technical specification · Article 76 and product identifiers
EN 15804 life-cycle data for climate-change indicators
ExpectedLife-cycle results exist per product line and map to the product variants actually sold.
DPP-ENV-001 · Regulation (EU) 2024/3110, Annex II; EN 15804 · Declarable as the family migrates; indicator set widens 9 Jan 2030 and 9 Jan 2032 · EN 15804 data and the DPP guide
Full Annex II environmental indicator set in the declaration
RequiredThe indicator coverage a product can evidence today is compared against the enacted 2030 and 2032 steps.
DPP-ENV-002 · Regulation (EU) 2024/3110, Annex II points (a)–(s) · Points (e)–(m) from 9 Jan 2030; points (a)–(s) from 9 Jan 2032 · the enacted 2030 and 2032 environmental steps
Machine-readable structure, not a document behind a carrier
ExpectedDeclared values carry unit, test method and tolerance as separate addressable data; no receiving system has to parse prose.
DPP-DATA-001 · Regulation (EU) 2024/3110, Art. 76–77 · On adoption of the family’s new harmonised technical specification · what machine-readable rules out
Long-horizon availability of the record
ExpectedAn accountable owner, a budget line and a migration path exist for a record that has to answer for decades, not for a CMS lifetime.
DPP-SYS-001 · Regulation (EU) 2024/3110, Art. 75(2)(i) · With the construction DPP system, once established · the 25-year availability obligation
Supplier data-delivery obligations for key parts
Best practiceWhere key parts carry passports of their own, a contractual route exists for obtaining that data.
DPP-SUP-001 · Regulation (EU) 2024/3110, Art. 76(2)(a)(vii) · Contract-cycle dependent · the supplier-data dependency in Article 76
ESPR ecodesign duties on the product itself
Not applicableConstruction products take the CPR passport route; the ESPR track is flagged only where an input material such as steel or aluminium is separately in scope.
DPP-SCOPE-001 · Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 · Not applicable to the CPR track · how the CPR and ESPR tracks differ
How the engagement runs
Stages of one programme, not separate products. Most manufacturers start with the scan and commission the detailed assessment from what it finds.
Start: rolling admission
Duration: typically 6-8 weeks, depending on maturity and scope
What sizes an engagement
- Products and product types in scope
- Number and complexity of source documents
- Product families and their regulatory profiles
- Target countries and markets
- Systems to integrate - ERP, PIM, PLM
Stage 1
Readiness Scan
Purpose
Rapid initial assessment.
Outcome
High-level readiness picture and identification of major gaps.
- Portfolio mapped to CPR product families
- Where each dataset lives today, and who holds it
- The gaps large enough to change your plan
Starting from €4,900, excluding VAT
Discuss this stageRecommended
Stage 2
Detailed Readiness Assessment
Purpose
Structured validation of product information and evidence.
Outcome
Detailed readiness report and prioritised gap analysis.
- Product information mapped to one agreed data model
- Full ruleset run per product family
- Evidence inventory, data-quality findings and ownership gaps
- Prioritised remediation roadmap with indicative effort
Starting from €14,500, excluding VAT
Discuss this stageStage 3
Data Foundation & Remediation
Purpose
Correct the structural issues the assessment identified.
Outcome
A product data foundation that can carry the information a passport will need.
- Product data model and identifier scheme
- Information ownership and data governance
- Environmental-data mapping and evidence structure
- Processes and system interfaces
Price on request
Discuss this stageOptional stage
Technical Pilot
Test the resulting model on one representative product family. Evidence of how the model behaves against relevant test environments, APIs or interoperability mechanisms, where those are available.
Availability depends on which test environments and interoperability mechanisms are open at the time. We do not promise registration in a production system that does not yet accept one.
Powered by Data Framer
The assessment is ours; Data Framer is the product-data platform underneath it. Manufacturers who want the work to stay current carry on using it after the engagement - on Professional, Business or Enterprise plans, priced separately from the readiness stages above.
Maintain rather than repeat
Catalogues change. The template, the record and the evidence stay current instead of being rebuilt the next time someone asks.
Validate continuously
The same ruleset that produced your report keeps running as profiles and harmonised technical specifications move.
Integrate where the data already lives
ERP, PIM and PLM exports in; structured, validated product data back out to the systems and channels that need it.
Reversibility, and no vendor lock-in
Your data stays yours, portable and export-ready, with a structured handover at contract end. Continuing with the platform is a decision you keep making, not one you make once.
AI-assisted product data framing helps extract, normalise, map and review information from existing PDFs, spreadsheets, images and technical files. Every material value remains traceable to its source, while AI suggestions remain subject to validation and human approval.
Who this is for
DPP readiness cuts across functions that do not usually share a backlog. The assessment is designed to be read by all of them.
Regulatory and compliance
Owns the declarations today and inherits the conformity and environmental content the DoPC adds.
Product and portfolio management
Knows which variants actually ship, which is where identifier and mapping gaps surface first.
Sustainability teams
Holds EPDs where they exist, and the lead time where they do not.
BIM and product data managers
Already maintains structured product information for specification workflows.
CIO and IT
Answers for ERP and PIM readiness, and for a record that must remain available for decades.
One data foundation, more than one use
Structured product data is expensive to build once and cheap to reuse. The work that makes a product family DPP ready is the same work that makes it specifiable in a model.
One structured product data foundation
Built once, to a model that does not belong to any single system or vendor.
DPP readiness
Regulatory and product-information readiness: what the evidence shows, what is missing, and what has to change before requirements reach your product families.
You are here.
BIM workflows
The same structured information published as BIM objects that designers and contractors specify from - a different use of the foundation, not a further requirement of it.
See how BIM Depot publishes product dataBIM is not a legal requirement of DPP compliance, and BIM Depot is not required to become DPP ready. Good structured product data simply supports both.
Understand the regulation
The detail lives in our Insights, where every claim carries its source and its date. We link to them rather than restating them here, so there is only ever one version to keep current.
Which construction products need a DPP first
How to read the first CPR Working Plan 2026–2029 for your own product family.
See which product families are first in the queueWhat goes in a construction Digital Product Passport
The seven things Article 76 requires, where each already lives in your company, and which function owns it.
Read what Article 76 requires the passport to carryFrom DoP to DoPC
What the Declaration of Performance and Conformity adds, and what to do with the declaration you publish today.
Read what changes in the declaration you publishNeed your team to understand the standards behind the data?
Training supports the transformation. It is not a prerequisite for a readiness engagement.
Questions manufacturers ask
Is a Digital Product Passport mandatory for construction products today?
- No. The legal framework is in force under Regulation (EU) 2024/3110, but passport duties activate family by family through delegated and implementing acts and new harmonised technical specifications. The Commission’s indicative milestone for the construction DPP delegated act is Q2 2027. Our guide sets out which dates are enacted and which are indicative.
What does the DPP Readiness Program actually deliver?
- An assessment of the product information you already hold, brought into one agreed product data model and validated against a versioned readiness ruleset, producing a readiness report and a prioritised remediation plan. It is a consulting and data engagement, not a software subscription.
How do the CPR and the ESPR relate?
- ESPR provides the horizontal EU architecture for Digital Product Passports. For construction products, the revised CPR establishes the sector-specific legal framework and requires the construction DPP system to be compatible and interoperable with the ESPR architecture. Construction products take the CPR route; ESPR is the interoperability context around it, not a regime that displaces it.
What is a Product Data Template?
- The reusable structure for a product class: its properties, identifiers, datatypes, units, applicability and semantic mappings. Your own values, evidence and approvals live in a Product Data Record bound to a version of that template. The template is one component of the DPP data architecture - useful long before any passport exists, and not the passport itself.
Does AI decide whether we are compliant?
- No. AI-assisted framing helps extract, normalise, map and review information from existing PDFs, spreadsheets, images and technical files, and it helps explain gaps. Every material value stays traceable to its source, and every suggestion is subject to deterministic validation and human approval. Nothing we or the platform do replaces the manufacturer, the notified body or the TAB as the legally responsible actor.
What happens after the readiness assessment?
- You hold the report, the remediation plan and the structured data underneath them. Most manufacturers carry on into the data foundation work; some continue on Data Framer to maintain, validate and integrate product data as catalogues change. Either way the data is yours and exportable, so continuing is a choice rather than a dependency.
Why is the QR code not the hard part?
- The carrier is roughly a week of work. The difficult part is structured product data, regulatory evidence, EN 15804 lifecycle information, identifiers that never get reused, clear data ownership, and systems that can keep all of it current for decades.
Do we need BIM Depot to become DPP ready?
- No. BIM Depot is not required for DPP readiness and readiness is not required for BIM Depot. They share one thing: well-structured product data. Once that foundation exists it can serve regulatory readiness and BIM specification workflows alike.
What does the assessment need from us?
- Access to what you already have - catalogue and master data, declarations, technical files, test reports, any EPDs, and a view of the ERP and PIM systems that hold them. Part of the value of the scan is discovering how much of it exists already, in the wrong shape.
Can you guarantee compliance?
- No, and nobody honestly can while the delegated acts and harmonised technical specifications are still being written. What we can do is assess and validate your product data against what is enacted and what is expected, mark each finding with its regulatory status, and build the data foundation that makes compliance an update rather than a scramble.
Find out what your product data is actually ready for
A readiness assessment tells you which product families are close, which are not, and what has to change first. It is the cheapest thing you can do before the delegated acts arrive.