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Tag Archives: UK
New Product LCA Network for the UK
Those of you in the UK working on product LCA may be interested in a new network being set up by the Henry Royce Institute at Manchester University with Sheffield University and Unilever. Register your interest here.
What will the CO2nstruct Zero Performance Framework Metric for EPD be based on?
Finally, with only 14 months to go before 2025, CO2nstruct Zero have said that they will be able to provide data on their 2025 target for 40% of product portfolios to have EPDs in Quarter 1 of 2024. In the … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Product Declarations
Tagged CO2nstructZero, EPD, metrics, Targets, UK
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UK Government has required Whole Life Carbon assessments, which means embodied carbon assessments, for all new public works projects and programmes since December 2020
In October 2020, the Government responded to the Committee on Climate Change’s 2020 Progress Report which had recommended to Government, in relation to embodied carbon in buildings, that the Government, “support the assessment and benchmarking of whole-life carbon in buildings.” … Continue reading
Posted in Embodied Impacts, EN15978, regulation, Whole Life Carbon
Tagged Embodied Carbon, GLA, Government, public sector, RICS, UK, Whole Life Carbon
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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
EPD Infographic – https://infogr.am/constructionlcas_guide_to_epd
If you’ve ever wondered how many EN 15804 EPD are out there, what products they cover, which EPD programmes have published the most EPD or how quickly the number of EPD are growing, then look no further than my Infographic on … Continue reading
Posted in Embodied Carbon Week 2014, EN 15804, Environmental Product Declarations, EPD, LCA, Life cycle assessment, Standards, TC 350
Tagged Denmark, EPD, France, Germany, infographic, LCA, Norway, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA
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