Environmental product declarations in accordance with EN 15804 and EN 16485 — How to account for primary energy of secondary resources?

Achenbach, Hermann; Diederichs, Stefan; Wenker, Jan L.; Rüter, Sebastian

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2016.04.004

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“…The result from the tool shows that the life cycle stage A1 to A3 is insignificant in this case. This is because the sequestered biogenic carbon in the wooden products is credited in A1 to A3 (according to the -1/+1 rule [25]) and the simple building construction cause only little impact. The dynamic LCA results show that future life cycle stages (B4, C3, and C4) have a lower impact than static LCA as these are discounted.…”

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Turning dynamic LCA principles into practice

Andersen,

Sørensen,

Jensen

et al. 2023

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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The building and construction sector quantifies the environmental impacts of buildings using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method. To put LCA into practice often simplified application of the LCA method is used, without considering timely aspects. Instead, the method dynamic LCA includes timely aspects, which are more complex in the modeling and thus difficult to apply. To investigate the consequences of using the dynamic LCA method, this study develops a tool that takes data available in a simple LCA tool that follows the standardized LCA method and calculates dynamic LCA results. The tool reimplements the calculation engine from the simple LCA tool and adds the more complex aspects of dynamic LCA afterward. Doing so makes it possible to add other complex methods to the original calculation engine to help investigate more complex methodological aspects in the future.

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confidence: 99%

Turning dynamic LCA principles into practice

Andersen,

Sørensen,

Jensen

et al. 2023

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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“…In parallel, other authors presented new program operators, for instance Sariola and Ilomäki (2016) discussed the importance of reliable sources of environmental information regarding the building products in Finland with reference to the Finnish national EPD program launched in 2016 and Mukherjee and Dylla (2017) discussed the challenges encountered during the creation of an EPD programme for asphalt mixture. Other authors focused on specific aspects, such as Cordella and Hidalgo (2016) which analysed the key environmental areas in the design and labelling of furniture products using several EPDs and Achenbach et al (2016) which analysed the EPDs in accordance with EN 15804 and EN 16485.…”

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Mapping diffusion of Environmental Product Declarations released by European program operators

Toniolo

Mazzi

Simonetto

et al. 2019

Sustainable Production and Consumption

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In order to facilitate the adoption of green requirements in public procurement, European Commission has developed the Green Public Procurement (GPP) criteria for various typologies of products and services. Almost all GPP criteria require environmental labels as means of proof that the goods or supplies correspond to the required environmental characteristics. Among the labels required, there are type III labels, based on a life cycle assessment study.The aim of this study is to (i) investigate to what extent a specific type III label, called Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), is spread in Europe and (ii) explore whether there is a correspondence between institutional initiatives towards GPP and the market.This study explored the valid EPDs presented on the websites of the European program operators between September and December 2016. The identified EPDs were quantified and classified according to the program operator, title of the reference Product Category Rule (PCR), country, language and the product based on a classification system developed by the United Nations.In total, 4,888 EPDs were collected mainly released by the Institut Baum und Umwelt e.V. (IBU) and PEP ecopassport (PEP). The obtained results showed that countries with the greater number of EPDs are France and Germany and that construction products are the types of products labelled most. The analysis of the languages used in the EPDs showed that 45% of the identified EPDs are written in

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“…Changes in transport and EOL scenario were analyzed together with the environmental aspect most meaning (HVAC energy) and also with changes in the database of materials with potentially high uncertainty (4,49). The results are shown in Table 2.…”

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“…This methodology is applied to the construction industry in two different ways, one for specific building materials and component combinations as in (4), and the other for individual buildings, reviewed by (2,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12). Some of these studies focus specifically on life cycle energy analysis (LCEA), reviewed by (9,13), or carbon footprint, without taking into account other environmental aspects.…”

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Análisis del ciclo de vida de un edificio con estructura de madera contralaminada en Granada-España

2019

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Se ha estudiado un edificio residencial con estructura de madera laminada en Granada (España) con la metodología de análisis del ciclo de vida, análisis energético del ciclo de vida y análisis de sensibilidad a cambios en la eficiencia energética durante el uso, bases de datos, distancia del transporte y diferentes escenarios para los residuos. Los impactos ambientales de las etapas de producción de materiales y construcción, así como la energía embebida fueron relativamente significantes. El valor del calentamiento global ha sido muy bajo debido al secuestro de CO2 por la madera. El análisis de sensibilidad ha revelado que la mayor reducción se consigue con la mejora de la eficiencia energética, la alta incertidumbre en los impactos de las declaraciones ambientales de producto, el escaso efecto del transporte de larga distancia sobre los impactos totales y la viabilidad de conseguir el objetivo de valorización de la Directiva Marco para el horizonte 2020 (mayor del 70%).

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Environmental product declarations in accordance with EN 15804 and EN 16485 — How to account for primary energy of secondary resources?

Cited by 11 publications

References 1 publication

Turning dynamic LCA principles into practice

Turning dynamic LCA principles into practice

Mapping diffusion of Environmental Product Declarations released by European program operators

Análisis del ciclo de vida de un edificio con estructura de madera contralaminada en Granada-España

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