Transcript Environmental Information on Construction Products (EICP) Philip Bennett CEPMC

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Council of European Producers of Materials for Construction
Conseil Européen des Producteurs de Matériaux de Construction
Vereinigung Europäischer Baustoffhersteller
Environmental Information on
Construction Products (EICP)
Philip Bennett
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EICP
- What is it?
- What are the benefits?
- Latest developments
- Challenges ahead
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What is EICP?
EICP is a voluntary, industry-based initiative for
providing transparent, accurate and reliable
environmental information on construction products
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EICP in Sustainable Construction
- Quality
- Costs
- Standards
- Etc...
- Specifiers
Whole Life Costing
- Local
authorities
EICP
Other
environmental
information
- Architects
Environmental
assessment of
buildings
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- etc...
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Characteristics of EICP
• Scheme-based
• LCA-based (LCI on all the phases of the life cycle)
using ISO 14040 principles
• Quantified environmental data
• Pre-set categories of parameters
• Quality assurance (usually, critical review)
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The main EICP actors in Europe
National
scheme
Env. Profiles
Scheme
organiser/promoter
BRE - Building
http://collaborate.bre.co. Research Establishment
UK
LCI/LCIA
operator
BRE on a
sector basis
Producers
involved to date
26 sectors
uk/envprofiles/
France
Communication of AIMCC - French Constr. Ecobilan (PwC)
Env. Characteristics Products Association
on a sector basis
of Building Prods
Germany Building Materials
Profiles
Netherlands
IKP-Stuttgart Univ.
MRPI-Env. Relevant NVTB-Dutch Constr.
Product Information Products Association
8 sectors
commissioned
by sector
around 25
sectors
commissioned
by company
14 sectors
www.mrpi.nl/engels.html
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The main EICP actors in Europe
Sweden
National
Scheme
Building Products
Declarations
Scheme
LCI/LCIA
Producers
organiser/promoter Operator
involved to date
BYKR-Ecocycle Council commissioned 700 products
for Building Sector
by company
EPD®
EMAS Council
commissioned
by sector
Denmark EPDs for Building
Product (MVDB)
SBI-Danish Building &
Urban Research
SBI
Norway
Env. Declaration
of Building Prods
NBI-Norwegian Building Research Institute
NBI
Finland
Env. Declaration
of Building Prods
RTS-Finnish Building
Information Institute
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VTT- Building
and Transport
40 sectors
50 sectors
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Examples of software models for the
environmental assessment of buildings and
components
Country
Model
Model owner
Further Information
UK
Envest (New Env.
Impact Estimating
Software)
BRE
www.bre-co.uk/sustainable/
envest.html
France
Escale
CSTB
www.cstb.fr
Germany
Build-It
Netherlands
Eco-Quantum
IKP - Stuttgart
University
IVAM, W/E, Prisman
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[email protected]
www.w-e.nl.eqdemo.htm
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Examples of software models for the
environmental assessment of buildings and
components
Country
Sweden
Model
Eco-effect
Model owner
KTH Infrastructure
& Planning
Further Information
[email protected]
Denmark Beat 2000 (Building
Env. Assessment Tool)
SBI
www.by-og-byg.dk/english/
research/environmental-impacts
from-buildings/index.htm
Norway
Ecoprofile
NBI
www.byggforsk.no/oekoprofil/
default.htm
Finland
LCA House
VTT
www.vtt.fi/rte/esitteet/ymparisto/
lcahouse.html
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What are the benefits of EICP?
• EU policies for sustainable development and integrated
product policy (IPP)
• Major benefits for construction
• Level playing-field for suppliers
• Alternative to eco-labelling which is unsuitable for B2B
construction products
• Alternative to “preference lists” (which are based on
varying and questionable methodology)
• “Greening” of public procurement
• Improvement of sector image
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Sustainable Development and IPP
Working Group on Sustainable Construction - Sept 2000
(Tripartite Group : EC, Member States, Industry)
“LCI-based environmental data schemes should become general
practice for the construction products industry.”
EC Communication on the sixth environment action programme of the
European Community - 24 January 2001
“Member States and companies should aim at introducing product information
schemes for all types of products in the years to come and the Commission will
encourage this under its Integrated Product Policy approach.”
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Sustainable Development and IPP
EC Green Paper on Integrated Product Policy - 7 February 2001
“The general philosophy of increasing the amount of product information on the
market calls for flexible and cost-effective solutions. For example, the criteria of
environmental performance developed for product groups, based on a
transparent examination of life cycle considerations, could be more extensively
used.”
EU Council Conclusions on the EC Green Paper on IPP - 7-8 June 2001
“The Council calls upon the Commission to: … Present a coherent strategy to
ensure that credible life cycle data and other reliable environmental information
related to products are disseminated through the product chain. It should …
cover improvements … in the elaboration of life cycle databases and other
relevant business-to-business information (e.g. ISO Type III)”
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Major benefits for construction
EICP provides transparent, accurate and reliable information for:
• the optimal eco-design of new products
• the improvement of existing products
• assisting architects, specifiers, contractors, purchasers in their
choice of products (for a specific application) and in the ecoefficient and safe design, use and maintenance of construction
works
• assisting contractors and recycling companies in the
environmentally-friendly recovery (or safe disposal) of waste
materials from end-of-life construction works
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Level playing field for suppliers
• Within a single (national) scheme there is a recognised,
uniform methodology and presentation format for all
construction products
• Most national schemes are based on ISO TR 14025,
Type III Environment Declarations - Guiding Principles
and Procedures
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EICP vs Eco-labels
Eco-Labels
e.g. Blue Angel (D); Nordic Swan
• Type I (ISO 14024)
• Pass/fail award scheme
(with cut-off points set on
what basis?)
• Suitable for end-consumer
requiring quick, non-detailed
information
• Suitable for “end-use”
products
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Env. Declarations
e.g. EICP schemes
• Type III (ISO TR 14025)
• Available for all products
• No comparison or weighting
against other products
• Detailed information
available for B2B purchasers/
specifiers
• Suitable for materials/
products/components to be incorporated into end-use product, e.g.
building
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EICP vs “preference lists”
• Increasing incidence of so-called “environmental experts”
creating lists of recommended “green” products for use by
public authorities
• Industry-generated EICP based on accepted LC
methodology constitutes a far better alternative
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“Greening” of public procurement
• EC Communication on Public Procurement and the
Environment
– eco-labels/EMAS not mandatory but may be used as
proof of compliance with certain environmental
requirements
• Further legislation to make eco-labelling and EMAS as
sole proof of compliance?
• With EICP, eco-labelling is not necessary
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Improvement of Sector Image
• 20% of EU manufacturing output
• 2.5 million jobs (excluding distributive trades)
• 20.000 different consturction products
BUT
• consumes 40% of total raw materials
• accounts for 40%, by weight, of total waste generated
(most of which, however, is recovered)
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Developments in EICP
• Industry
• European Commission
• Standards Bodies
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Developments in EICP – Industry
• Industry conference on 16 May 2001 (attended by 200
people) to review the existing national schemes in Europe
and to assess their potential for harmonisation at a
European level.
higher awareness of EICP as a tool for sustainable construction
agreement that, to avoid higher costs and barriers to trade
(particularly for SMEs), a cross-border harmonisation of
EICP schemes is necessary
support for international standardisation of approach
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Developments in EICP –
European Commission
• DG Environment Draft Interim Report “Evaluation of EPD
Schemes” April 2002 which sees the construction sector as
a frontrunner
• DG Enterprise Construction Unit. Project with consultant
PwC comparing national EICP schemes, the potential for
their harmonisation and their potential use for harmonised
standards
Expert Workshop on 20 June 2002
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Developments in EICP –
Standards Bodies
• NEN (Dutch Standards Body)
• AFNOR (French Standards Body)
• ISO/TC 207/ SC3/WG4 (Environmental management Environmental labelling)
• ISO/TC 59/ SC3/WG12 (Building construction Functional/ user requirements and performance in
building construction)
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NEN (Dutch Standards Body)
Draft Standard : NEN 7185
• Material-related environmental profile of a building
• Description of a method (related to the Dutch Building
Decree) for determining the environmental impact
characteristics of residential buildings, based on LCA
data of materials and construction products
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AFNOR (French Standards Body)
Experimental Standard : XP P01010-1
• Environmental quality of construction products
- Information concerning the environmental
characteristics of construction products
• Part 1 : Methodology and model of data declaration
- published in April 2001
• Part 2 : Common methodology for determining the
contribution of products to environmental impacts of
buildings - health and comfort aspects included (Based
on ISO 14042) - published in April 2002
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ISO/TC 207 Environmental
Management
• ISO/TC 207/SC3/WG4 Type III Env. Declarations
• TR 14025
standard?
• Does not wish to develop sector-specific standards based
on TR 14025.
• Will co-operate with ISO/TC 59/SC3/WG12 which is
taking the lead on a construction sector standard.
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ISO/TC 59 Building Construction
• TC/59/SC3/WG12 Sustainable Building Construction
• Working since end 2000 on standard for “guidelines to
promote an objective methodology for environmental
declaration of building materials and products”.
• Proposal that WG12 becomes SC19 under AFNOR
Secretariat.
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Challenges ahead
• With regard to providing environmental information, the
construction products sector is one of the most advanced
in Europe.
• However, challenges lie ahead:
– Acceptance by both private and public procurement
purchasers that EICP is more suited to their needs than ecolabelling
– EU harmonisation of national EICP schemes
– The use of EICP data in harmonised standards
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