VOLA Taps

Name: VOLA Taps
Brand: VOLA

VOLA’s modular tap system — originally designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1968 — in solid brass with a cylindrical, minimal form. Available across a standard palette of 15 colours and 4 metallic finishes, all built for repair rather than replacement.

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Carbon and evidence

Product Evidence

Evidence currently held for the VOLA product record.

VOLA

Evidence Base

No declaration yet

VOLA has not published an EPD or a quantified carbon figure for this product, so nothing on this card is numerical. The guidance below is qualitative — drawn from the product record and curated category knowledge — for early design discussion, not for figures.

Brassware is declared per fitting, not per m², so no per-area carbon figure applies. VOLA competes on longevity rather than a headline EPD: internal parts are replaceable across decades, so a tap is repaired rather than replaced. Manufactured under ISO 14001.

Next step: request a current product EPD or manufacturer carbon declaration.

What's missing (3)

•No current product EPD is recorded.
•No quantified carbon result is recorded.
•2 certifications are withheld because exact public evidence is not mapped.

Service Life — the B4 Replacement Input

50 years · basis not recorded

≈2 installations over a 60-year building study period.

B4 (replacement) follows the building, not the product: an assessor multiplies replacement cycles by project quantities. This record supplies the service life and does not compute B4.

Sourced Product Claims

Designed for repair — internal parts remain replaceable across decades of productsManufacturer declaredSource
Made from brass and stainless steel, which VOLA states are chosen so products are built to lastManufacturer declaredSource

2 certifications are held in the staging record but not presented as product evidence because an exact public source has not yet been mapped.

Evidence Sources

VOLA Taps product page

VOLA

Coverage: VOLA Taps

Manufacturer declared

VOLA — Environmental Product Declarations and longevity

VOLA

Manufacturer declared

Design & Specification Notes

VOLA’s modular tap system — originally designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1968 — in solid brass with a cylindrical, minimal form.

Typical Uses

•Hardware & fittings
•Bathroom/kitchen fixtures
•Accessories

Specification Actions

•Verify product-specific recycled content and manufacturing energy route.
•Use reversible fixings to support high-value metal recovery.
•Request a current product-specific EPD where available.

Indicative Health & Indoor Air

low Risk

Solid brass fitting. Specify to local drinking-water-contact standards for potable supply.

Evidence:Manufacturer declared

Specification

Collection: VOLA
Finish: Solid brass, 19 finishes
Service life: 50 years
Warranty: Repairable design; replaceable internal parts