This document provides the principles and requirements to enable environmental and technical data provided in environmental product declarations (EPDs) for construction products and services, construction elements and integrated technical systems to be used in building information modelling (BIM) to assist in the assessment of the environmental performance of the construction works over its life cycle. The mechanism used in this document to enable this is a data template created following ISO 23386 and ISO 23387 and the resulting data sheet. This includes both mandatory and optional data from different types of EPD, such as generic, specific, average and representative, and other relevant information necessary for use of EPDs at the construction works level within a BIM environment. This document gives requirements on structuring EPD information using a data template, to make EPD data machine-interpretable, and enable their integration into information-driven design, construction and operational processes. This document is also appropriate to structure generic life cycle assessment (LCA) data for use within a BIM environment, as these data are required in the absence of suitable EPD data to enable assessment of the environmental performance at the construction works level. The requirements in this document are further supplemented by technical information about construction products and services, construction elements and integrated technical systems. This document recommends the use of the same principles for structuring information (data template concepts) and the use of existing technical information created by other domain experts. EXAMPLE In Europe, Construction Products Regulation (CPR) experts are responsible for structuring technical information based on European Harmonised Standards. This information might already exist in a data dictionary, and EPD/LCA experts are advised to use it for the technical description of products in EPD This document is intended to help in the understanding the different template concepts and their relation to EPD information and to enable users to create new concepts according to their specific needs. NOTE For example, experts developing sub-category PCR according to ISO 21930 or complementary PCR (c-PCR) according to EN 15804 could create a data template for additional specific requirements in the sub-category PCR or c-PCR for the relevant product group. The assessment of environmental performance at the construction works level is not covered by this document.