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5/28/2020 An Introduction to Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) Thursday 28 th May, 13:00-14:30 @asbp_uk 1 Agenda 13:00 Welcome and introduction to EPD from the webinar chair - Jane Anderson, ASBP board member and Director,

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An Introduction to Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)

Thursday 28th May, 13:00-14:30 @asbp_uk

Agenda

13:00 Welcome and introduction to EPD from the webinar chair - Jane Anderson, ASBP board member and Director, ConstructionLCA 13:20 Reading an EPD – what do they tell you? - Pat Hermon, Technical Lead, BRE 13:40 Digitising EPD - Oliver Kusche, Director, Oliver Kusche Research & Consulting (Replacement speaker for Christian Donath, EcoPlatform) 14:00 Discussion 14:30 Close

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Who we are

Not-for-profit, mission led, membership organisation

“To accelerate the transformation to a healthy, low carbon built environment by championing the use of demonstrably sustainable building products”

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What we do

Health and well-being

Natural materials Indoor air quality Source control, VOCs, off-gassing Moisture control

Resource efficiency

Circular economy Design for deconstruction Material re-use

Product sustainability

Whole life carbon Robust product standards/EPDs Decision making tools/product databases

We organise events, participate in research projects, advocate product standards and inform policy across our three core themes:

Our members and partners

Over 70 members and partners from across the sector

Architects Specifiers Contractors Product manufacturers Housebuilders Trade bodies Academia and more

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Tutorial series – Healthy Buildings

Thursday 9th July, 11:00-12:00 Indoor Air Quality and Healthy Buildings with Professor Stephen Holgate World-renowned air quality expert and lead author

  • f “The Inside Story – Health effects of indoor air

quality on children and young people”. www.asbp.org.uk/upcomingevents

A new Healthy Buildings tutorial series with guest industry experts, in collaboration with the ASBP Natural Fibre Insulation Group.

Thursday 11th June, 11:00-12:00 Designing Healthy Buildings with Carol Costello and Kristina Roszynski, Cullinan Studio Thursday 25th June, 11:00-12:00 Measuring Healthy Buildings with John Jones, PPM Technology and Tim Robinson, Waverton Analytics

New Masterclass Series

www.asbp.org.uk/upcomingevents Thursday 2nd July, 13:00-15:00 Biogenic Carbon in EPD and Building LCA with Jane Anderson and Mark Lynn

  • An introduction to Biogenic Carbon
  • How is sequestered carbon measured?
  • What about carbon storage? • What happens at the end of life?
  • How is biogenic carbon reported in EN 15804+A1

and EN 15978?

  • What will be different in EN 15804+A2?

Thursday 24th September, 13:00-15:00 Common pitfalls in EPD generation – a verifier’s view with Jane Anderson

  • What is a verifier looking for?
  • Common problems and how to avoid them
  • Mass balance issues
  • Biogenic carbon
  • Data quality
  • Indicators
  • Plausibility

In-depth sessions (2 hours), limited to 25 attendees, with interactive discussion and exercises. REGISTRATION OPEN NOW DISCOUNTS WHEN BOOKING BOTH MASTERCLASSES

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More events

www.asbp.org.uk/upcomingevents Tuesday 2nd June, 14:00-15:30 Circular Economy, Reuse and Construction

  • Circular economy and construction: Opportunities and

challenges

  • Case study: How does reuse impact upon the design process
  • Reuse of steel from the oil and gas industries and challenges of

reusing steel from existing buildings

  • Embodied carbon for reuse – how does it work?

Is it a useful metric?

Thursday 18th June, 14:00-15:30 Plastics in Construction Dragon's Den Event #1 – Insulation

New pitch series looking for innovative alternatives to conventional plastic building products and packaging. Contestants One place left! Contact us for more information

FREE EVENTS!

Get involved with the ASBP

Join as a member – Standard (from £150) or Patron (from £1,000 per year) Sign up to our mailing list – http://bit.ly/ASBPnewsletter Become a sponsor – Support the ASBP Awards or Healthy Buildings 2021 Join one of our specialist groups – Natural Fibre Insulation, Plastics in Construction, Paints & Finishes (coming soon!) Register for one of our upcoming webinars – Circular Economy Week (2nd June), Healthy Buildings Tutorials (11th, 25th June, 9th July), Plastics in Construction (18th June), Biogenic Carbon Masterclass (2nd July) and more! https://asbp.org.uk/upcomingevents

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Contact us

Jane Anderson jane@constructionlca.co.uk Richard Broad richard@asbp.org.uk @asbp_uk z

Environmental Product Declarations

ASBP EPD Webinar 28 May 2020

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Lock-in Effect

  • Emissions from material

production today are sunk emissions – we can only mitigate their impact in the future

  • Less efficient new

buildings will emit long into the future because it is expensive to retrofit newer buildings

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Global Embodied CO2 emissions

ConstructionLCA

Source: UN Environment, and International Energy Agency. 2017. “Towards a Zero-Emission, Efficient, and Resilient Buildings and Construction Sector: Global Status Report 2017.

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Embodied impacts are becoming more important ConstructionLCA

Orr et al, Minimising energy in construction: Practitioners’ views on material efficiency, 2019

Increased Energy Efficiency Grid Decarbonisation

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What’s an EPD?

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Image courtesy InterfaceFLOR

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EN 15804 is the Core PCR

  • Uses TC350 Life Cycle Stages (A1-A3 - cradle to gate, A4 -

transport , A5 - construction, etc)

  • Legal “end of waste” is system boundary
  • User of secondary material/fuel gets benefit of recovery
  • Module D shows benefit of recovery in the next product system
  • Biogenic carbon sequestration shown in Module A1, transfer or

emission in C3/C4

  • Only 1% cut off of energy and mass allowed
  • All EPD verified by an independent expert according to ISO 14025

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EPD Scenarios

  • The majority of EPD voluntarily provide data beyond the factory
  • gate. End of life (C1-C4 and Module D) will be mandatory soon
  • The EPD should describe the scenario(s)
  • Must be realistic and representative
  • Should be
  • One of the most probable alternatives or
  • 100% scenarios
  • Mixed scenario (with 100% scenarios)

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Over 7000 EPD to EN 15804 globally

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Some EPD cover many products

For example:

  • In North America – over 1000 EPD covering over 25,000

separate products

  • In France – over 1300 EPD covering over 67,000 product lines

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Information on EPD

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  • Briefing Papers on EPD

available from the Alliance for Sustainable Building Products https://asbp.org.uk/

  • An Introduction
  • Using EPD
  • Finding EPD

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Finding EPD

  • EcoPlatform Programme Operators – via www.eco-platform.org
  • Other Programme Operators (EN 15804, ISO 21930, ISO

14025)

  • National databases, e.g. oekobau.dat, inies…
  • Digital resources, e.g. LCA Data Hub, EPD Registry and

Metsims, Declare, Quartz, EC3 (North America)

  • Trade Association websites, eg cembureau, EAA etc
  • Manufacturer’s websites

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Thank You

twitter: @constructionlca blog: http://constructionlca.wordpress.com EPD Verification and Consultancy: jane@constructionlca.co.uk PhD Student – Open University: jane.anderson@open.ac.uk

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