EDECON Eco design for the Construction Industry

1. EDECONEco design for the Construction Industry Wendy Carmichael

2. Agenda Introduction EDECON Why Construction? Eco Design Life Cycle Stages &Typical Impacts Product Lifecycle Impact Tool Opportunities Business Benefits

4. EDECON • Eco Design for the Construction Industry

6. Why the Construction Industry? 26 million 1.3 trillion 50% 35%

7. Policy Trends & Issues • Policy Measures supporting Europe 2020 • COM(2011) 21 A resource-efficient Europe • COM(2011) 571 - The Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe • COM/2013/0196 - Communication on Building the Single Market for Green Products • puts forward two methods to measure environmental performance throughout the lifecycle, the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) and the Organisation Environmental Footprint (OEF) • Rec 2013/179/EU - Commission Recommendation of 9 April 2013 on the use of common methods to measure and communicate the life cycle environmental performance of products and organisations Change in emphasis from energy to resource efficiency and wider life cycle considerations

8. Environmental legislation in C&D Sector • Regulation No 305-2011 on the Marketing of Construction Products • Directive 2001/925/EC on Eco-design of Energy Related Products • Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2010/31/EU(Recast) • Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC)

9. Why is Eco Design so Important?

10. Cradle to Grave Incineration and disposal Extraction of raw materials Manufacturing Packaging and distribution Use and maintenance 10

11. Cradle to Cradle 11

12. Life Cycle Stages

13. Life cycle Impacts

14. Product Lifecycle Impact Tool

15. Exercise Identify Hotspots UPVC Window

16. Materials

17. Natural Gas/Oil Salt Water UPVC Production Ethylene Chlorine 1-2, Dichloroethane (Ethylene dichloride) cracking process Mercury or Asbestos electrolysis oxychlorination Ethylene Ethylene Dichloride Dioxin Organochlorines Vinyl chloride monomer cracking Vinyl Chloride Polyvinyl chloride resin polymerisation Vinyl Chloride Vinyl chloride ‘compound’ phthalates Polyvinyl Chloride Additives

18. Glass Production

19. Product Lifecycle Impact Tool

20. Energy

21. Water

22. Waste

23. Hazardous Waste

24. Pollution

25. Social

26. Eco Design Strategies

27. Opportunities – Materials

28. Opportunities - Materials Use used/recycled/renewable OlympicStadiumcompressiontruss • Lightweightstructure • Manufacturedfromsub-prime steel(gaspipelines) • £0.5millioncostsaving

29. Opportunities - Materials Use Less Velodromecablenetroof: •90%savinginmassofsteel •6weekbuildperiod •£5.8millioncostsaving

30. Opportunities - Transport of raw materials • Local suppliers • Local products • Optimise delivery loads • Lightweight products • Carbon neutral delivery companies • Investigate collaboration with other companies • Give preference to low carbon transport mode

31. Transport

32. Transport of raw materials for glass manufacture

33. Opportunities – Design for Manufacturing

34. Opportunities – Design for Manufacturing • Mohawk Flooring • Mohawk SmartStrand carpet • Renewably sourced polymer, made in part from corn starch • 30% less energy required than the production of an equal amount of nylon

35. Opportunities – Design for Distribution

36. Opportunities – Design for Distribution • Everest Ltd • Manufacturer of double-glazed windows and conservatories • Realisedthat it could reduce packaging without increasing damage to its products during transit. • Stopped using stretch-wrap around the glass frames • The packaging supplier produced redesigned packaging made out of foam protectors at less cost • The changes resulted in cost savings of £90,000/year due to: • reduced labour time; • reduced material costs; • reduced disposal costs.

37. Opportunities – Design For Use

38. Opportunities – Design For Use

39. Opportunities – Design For End of 1st Life

40. Anglian Windows

41. Tackles raw materials shortage by creating new carpet tiles from old

42. Business Benefits of Eco Design

43. Thank you