Author: Jane Anderson
An expert in Life Cycle Assessment for the Construction industry
my recent tweets
- LCA bods thinking of making a move to Australia? @EdgeEnvironment are recruiting. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/EdgeEnvironmen…xxx 4 days ago
- RT @PeteApps: The Home Office will not require owners of high rise buildings to prepare evacuation plans, or make arrangements for disabled…xxx 5 days ago
- And an MSP in Scotland looking to address the other aspect of built environment carbon emissions. twitter.com/ElrondBurrell/…xxx 1 week ago
- Good news on the possibility of regulating embodied carbon via a ten minute rule Bill. But will this next MP get pl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…xxx 1 week ago
- There is a proposal for an ISO work item on net zero principles. @BSI_UK are keen to hear from UK stakeholders in t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…xxx 1 week ago
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Recent Posts
- My 2022 EPD Numbers Infographic now available
- UK EPD listing
- When is an EPD not an EPD #2
- ASBP publish a comprehensive list of EPD for UK produced construction products in our new Briefing Paper
- UK Government has required Whole Life Carbon assessments, which means embodied carbon assessments, for all new public works projects and programmes since December 2020
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Author Archives: constructionlca
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
Tagged infographic
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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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thinkstep’s proven solutions in the growing market for EN 15804 EPD
The number of Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) verified to EN 15804 is growing rapidly. For the past couple of years, I have been monitoring the number of EPD produced within each of the construction EPD programmes around the world, and … Continue reading
Posted in Embodied Impacts, EN 15804, Environmental Product Declarations, EPD, LCA
Tagged France, Germany, ireland, regulation
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