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10 th FSP Meeting Host: Forbo Flooring UK 14 th March 2013. Agenda 10:30 – 10:35 Welcome Simon Macaulay 10:35 – 10:40 Introductions All 10:40 – 10:50 Minutes of 9th FSP Meeting /Matters Arising Simon Macaulay 10:50 – 11:15 What now? / Funding and Membership in 2013/14 ALL
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10th FSP Meeting Host: Forbo Flooring UK 14th March 2013
Agenda 10:30 – 10:35 Welcome Simon Macaulay 10:35 – 10:40 Introductions All 10:40 – 10:50 Minutes of 9th FSP Meeting /Matters Arising Simon Macaulay 10:50 – 11:15 What now? / Funding and Membership in 2013/14 ALL 11:15 – 11:55 Resource Efficiency through Waste Minimisation Specifications Brian Murphy 11:55 – 12:30 Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) Andrew Dutfield 12:30 – 12:45 FSP Annual Report – members content Stuart Blofeld 12:45 – 12:50 FSP 2nd Newsletter Jane Gardner 12:50 – 13:00 AOB & date of next meeting (June 2013) 13:00 – 13:30 LUNCH 13:30 – 14:00 Tour of Forbo facility
9th FSP Meeting Minutes & Matters Arising
FSP – What’s Next? Funding and Membership in 2013/14
2013/14 FSP funding & membership options • Option 1: £550 • Secretariat support for 3 FSP meetings per year • This support includes arrangement of meeting dates, venues (excluding venue hire or catering costs) and speakers, issue of meeting agendas, presentations, and minute taking. • Hosting website www.flooringwaste.co.uk • Option 2: £700 • Option 1 PLUS: • 2 FSP Newsletters per year • Option 3: £900 • Option 1 & 2 PLUS • Production of 2013 Annual FSP Report to be published in April 2014 Fee’s presented are based on maintaining the same FSP membership numbers in 2013/14 to cover delivery costs (15 FSP sponsoring organisations)
Focus for 2013/14 • What do you want to get out of being a member of the FSP? • What do members want to focus on in 2013/14? • Specific areas of interest? • Engage with other flooring sectors – timber/laminate? • Greater links with Defra as a lobbying organisation? • Guest speakers/Topics? • Host organisations/Factory visits?
Resource Efficiency through Waste Minimisation Specifications Brian Murphy
Environmental Product Declarations and Flooring Andrew Dutfield, BRE - Centre for Sustainable Products
Environmental Profiling and EN15804 EPDs Andrew Dutfield Centre for Sustainable Products Flooring Sustainability Partnership 14th March 2013
Overview of Presentation • The Environmental Profiling Process • Cross listing against existing certificates • Listing on Green Book Live • EN15804 EPD
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
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
What’s behind an Environmental Profile? Factory Data • Outputs • Inputs • Energy • Transport • Emissions • Waste
OverviewDeriving the underlying data: Life Cycle Assessment Cradle to grave
Normalisation • The impact of one European citizen per year • Allows direct comparison of impacts
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
m2 E How Ecopoints transfer to A+ to E ratings Functional unit D C B A A+ Point of installation
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
What do you get from an Environmental Profile? Environmental Product Declaration Certificate Environmental Profiles Report
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
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
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.
Future Update to EN 15804BRE Methodology update/alignment superseded EN 15804
EN 15804BRE Methodology update/alignment Cradle to grave (Optional) Cradle to gate with options (Optional) (Optional) Cradle to gate
Creating an EPD Client (and LCA Practitioner) LCA Practitioner, with client support LCA Practitioner Independent verifier Programme Operator
Results of LCA but currently excludes toxicity…
Summary, aspects of note • Ownership • Comparability • Usage scenarios • Reference Service Life • Verification • Sample of BRE’s EN 15804 EPD:
Thank you Andrew Dutfield dutfielda@bre.co.uk
FSP 2013 Annual Report Stuart Blofeld
FSP Annual Summary Report • Response to request for content for the report has been low • Content has so far been provided by: • CFA, CRUK, FeRFA, Recofloor, and Shaw Industries • Also have content from 2012 WRAP case studies for Desso, Forbo and Interface which will be summarised in case study section • Awaiting agreed content from: • Altro (Altro Safety flooring case study ) • Desso – 2012 performance summary • Interface – 2012 performance summary • The Tile Association – 2012 performance summary • PLUS any other members that have the time to send me anything!
FSP 2nd Newsletter Jane Gardner
FSP Newsletter content • Content has been provided by Altro, Desso, Ferfa, CRUK and Recofloor, and CFA • Want to send out by the end of March at the very latest
AOB & Date of next meeting
Next meeting date w/c 17th June 2013 Host: Mercardo - Chemsford, Essex