Environmental Profiling and EN15804 EPDs

1. Environmental Profiling and EN15804 EPDs Andrew Dutfield Centre for Sustainable Products Flooring Sustainability Partnership 14th March 2013

2. Overview of Presentation • The Environmental Profiling Process • Cross listing against existing certificates • Listing on Green Book Live • EN15804 EPD

3. How BREEAM Assessments feed through to the product level

4. Overview of BREEAM credits

5. BREEAM Materials Credits

6. BRE Environmental Profile Type III Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) based on following standards: • ISO 14040:2006 and ISO 14044: 2006 Life Cycle Assessment • ISO 14025: 2006 Type III Environmental Labels • ISO 21930: 2007 Environmental Product Declarations for Construction Products

7. The BRE Global Environmental Profiles Process Client and BRE Client BRE with Client support Client and BRE Certification only BRE Certification only Client and BRE

8. What’s behind an Environmental Profile? Factory Data • Outputs • Inputs • Energy • Transport • Emissions • Waste

9. OverviewDeriving the underlying data: Life Cycle Assessment Cradle to grave

10. OverviewCalculating a single indicator: Ecopoints

12. Normalisation • The impact of one European citizen per year • Allows direct comparison of impacts

13. Weightings • Required to achieve relative importance • ..and for a single score • Created by a panel of 10 European experts. • Peer reviewed • Geographically specific to Europe • Basis of BRE Ecopoints 100 Ecopoints = impact of 1 EU citizen per year

14. m2 E How Ecopoints transfer to A+ to E ratings Functional unit D C B A A+ Point of installation

15. Ecopoint scale • Different scale of ecopoints for each building element, and sometimes different scales for each building type • Based on generic profiles Healthcare A+ E A B C D Offices A+ E A B C D Education A+ E A B C D Ecopoints per m2

16. What do you get from an Environmental Profile? Environmental Product Declaration Certificate Environmental Profiles Report

17. What don’t you get from an Environmental Profile? Qualitative Impacts - Responsible sourcing - Social impacts Economic Impacts - Life cycle costing Physical Properties - Thermal properties - Acoustic properties Emissions In-situ • IAQ and VOCs

18. Benefits of an Environmental Profile • Green Guide Rating can be used to compare: • Materials with similar functions • Specifications with similar functions • Building designs over their expected lifetimes • Credits in BREEAM • Product differentiation • Competitive advantage • Open new markets

19. Cross-listing against Existing Certificates Criteria for cross-listing: • The product to be cross-listed against must have an existing Environmental Profile Certification. • The product to be cross-listed must have no additional manufacturing by the owner or by the company buying in the product. (It is the same product that has been certified e.g. re-branded with a different name) • Cross listing is dependent upon valid certification of original product.

22. Future Update to EN 15804BRE Methodology update/alignment superseded EN 15804

23. EN 15804BRE Methodology update/alignment Cradle to grave (Optional) Cradle to gate with options (Optional) (Optional) Cradle to gate

24. Variants of EPD

25. Creating an EPD

26. Creating an EPD Client (and LCA Practitioner) LCA Practitioner, with client support LCA Practitioner Independent verifier Programme Operator

27. What does an EPD contain?As required by the Standards:

28. Results of LCA but currently excludes toxicity…

29. Information Transfer Matrix

30. Summary, aspects of note • Ownership • Comparability • Usage scenarios • Reference Service Life • Verification • Sample of BRE’s EN 15804 EPD:

31. Thank you Andrew Dutfield dutfielda@bre.co.uk