Using LCA and EPD in Public Procurement Within the Construction Sector

Jelse, Kristian; Peerens, Kristof

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66981-6_55

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“…Passer et al have written about how EPD are being used in the European Market [19] and Jelse and Peerens about how they can be used for Green Public Procurement [20]. Ganassali et al discuss how they produced benchmark values for cement using 32 EPD, using the median value of the range for the reference value, with limit and target values set using the boundaries of the upper and lower quartiles of the range distribution [16].…”

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Using an analysis of concrete and cement EPD: verification, selection, assessment, benchmarking and target setting

Anderson

Moncaster

2022

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The carbon embodied in buildings is an important proportion of our emissions and needs to be radically reduced in order to support climate change mitigation. The highest proportion of embodied carbon is usually emitted during the product stage, and within the structural elements. Therefore, reducing the carbon embodied in the structural materials is likely to have a major impact. In most buildings, the majority of embodied carbon comes from steel and concrete. But although there are now hundreds of registered Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for cements and concretes, there has been very limited independent published information comparing the embodied carbon of different concrete mixes and raw materials. This lack of comparative data limits the potential to make appropriate decisions at early design stages leading to low carbon buildings. The authors have recently conducted a review of verified EPD for concrete mixes and for concrete’s key constituents, including cement, identifying the range of carbon coefficients. This paper provides guidance on making use of the coefficient ranges provided in that research: to support the verification of EPD for concrete and its raw materials; in material selection; in assessing building level embodied carbon; in benchmarking; and in the setting of reduction targets.

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confidence: 99%