Armstrong environmental impact statement acknowledges that any analysis of a building product's environmental credentials is inevitably going to be complex and, in many areas, frustratingly inconclusive.

This is because the "Assessment Industry", for want of a better collective description, is fragmented and comes at the issues from a wide variety of philosophical points of view and measurement criteria.

Armstrong environmental impact statement is Armstrong Australia  's attempt to provide a lifecycle approach to the presentation of our environmental credentials. We have taken this approach because we believe that for too long the assessment of a product's environmental credentials have focuessed almost exclusively on the raw materials used.

Our approach is to therefore provide an assessment based on the constituent parts of the product lifecycle:

As we are constantly working on the ways of minimising environmental impact at every stage of the product lifecycle, this document will be updated as new practices or innovations are implemented