Author: Jane Anderson
An expert in Life Cycle Assessment for the Construction industry
my recent tweets
- ICEv3 showing increased impacts for materials - potentially because EPD now covering countries with poorer environm… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…xxx 3 days ago
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- For the 2021 ASBP Awards we are taking a different approach. We want to shine the light on transformative ideas and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…xxx 3 days ago
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- You’d think councils would learn from Sheffield. twitter.com/jester/status/…xxx 4 days ago
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Recent Posts
- Over 7000 EN 15804 Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) were available at the start of 2020 with numbers continuing to increase
- Embodied Emissions event at London Climate Week
- 30th May 2019 was a Big Day for Embodied Carbon in the UK
- More than 6000 EN 15804 EPD now available!
- For every five houses built, does one house worth really go to landfill or incineration?
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Author Archives: constructionlca
Over 7000 EN 15804 Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) were available at the start of 2020 with numbers continuing to increase
Rather late in the year I am adding my 2020 EPD Infographic to my blog which provides the numbers of EPD at the start of the year. The number of EN 15804 EPD have continued to rise, with French FDES … Continue reading
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Embodied Emissions event at London Climate Week
Event: Managing embodied emissions to improve global climate governance Date: Tuesday 02 July 2019 Time: 5:00pm to 7:30pm Venue: University College London, Cost: … Continue reading
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30th May 2019 was a Big Day for Embodied Carbon in the UK
As a Board Member of the Alliance for Sustainable Building Products (ASBP), it was great to chair the ASBP event yesterday that marked the launch of the RICS Building Carbon Database, a rebrand of the WRAP Embodied Carbon Database set … Continue reading
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More than 6000 EN 15804 EPD now available!
My latest update of EPD numbers at the start of 2019 is now available – bit.ly/2019EPD
Posted in EN 15804, Environmental Product Declarations, Environmental Profiles, EPD, LCA, Life cycle assessment, Standards, TC 350
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For every five houses built, does one house worth really go to landfill or incineration?
Duncan Baker-Brown recently claimed this in an article on Construction21, I guess, based on the fact that he also said, “We know that the construction industry in the UK wastes approximately 20% of the material delivered to a building site”, … Continue reading
Posted in Embodied Impacts, Recovery, resources, Waste
Tagged construction, Demolition, mass balance, recycling, UK
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Update to 2018 EPD numbers
With the revival of the Finnish RTS EPD programme, and the latest numbers from Inies for Verified French ‘Fiche de Declaration Environmental et Sanitaire’ (EPD in French), the numbers for Verified EN 15804 EPD in January 2018 which I have … Continue reading
Policies on embodied impacts of buildings increase interest in EPD
As one of thinkstep‘s lead consultants in construction, I recently wrote an article for the Newsletter of Eco Platform, the European association of construction product EPD Programmes detailing how national and regional policies relating to embodied impacts are increasing interest in … Continue reading
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Tagged Belgium, california, France, Germany, oregon, USA, vancouver, washington state
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EPD numbers continue to increase…
Following on from my 2017 EPD Infographic, I have again tracked the numbers of verified EPD for construction products aligning to EN 15804. Growth in numbers has continued, and there are now over 5000 EPD available globally. In 2017, new … Continue reading
Posted in Embodied Impacts, EN 15804, Environmental Product Declarations, EPD, LCA, Life cycle assessment, Standards, TC 350
Tagged BREEAM, LEED, legislation, Level(s), regulation
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Importance of Reducing Embodied Impacts
I’ve just come across this 2014 image from the Construction2030 website, which considers the energy footprint of all the office space globally expected to be built between 2015 and 2030 – 83 billion m², both embodied (from the materials used … Continue reading
Who should benefit from recycling in construction product EPD?
EN 15804, the construction product EPD standard, attributes the impact of treating waste to the waste producer, according to the polluter pays principle. After treatment, when waste has been recovered and reaches the “end of waste”, the resulting secondary material … Continue reading
Posted in Embodied Impacts, EN 15804, Environmental Product Declarations, EPD, LCA, Life cycle assessment
Tagged methodology, recycling, secondary
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