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Environmental Product Declarations in Ireland
Date:December 9, 2016
Authors:Pieter StadhoudersPeter Seymour
Measuring Sustainability
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Contents
• Introduction• Life Cycle Assessment• What is an EPD?• What data they communicate• How are they are created • How to get an EPD – EcoChain• The role of EPDs in Ireland now • The way forward
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EcoReview
Sustainable supply chain
Building materials
Bio-‐chemicals
Life Cycle Assessment
EcoChain Environmental Management Tool
Green as distinguishing capacity
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Drivers• Direct demand from customers• Reliable upstream reporting• Marketing purposes• Internal knowledge• Benchmarking• Non-‐Financial Reporting
(Directive 2013/34/EU)
Life Cycle Assesment
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Environmental Product
Declarations
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What is an EPD?
ISO standardised and LCA based tool to communicate the environmental impacts of a product (or system)
Self-‐declaration, quality-‐assured and comparable data
Standardised assessment methodology EN15804
Third-‐party verified
BenchmarkingReportingCommunication
ESSENTIALCURRENCY
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EPDconcrete
EPD outline
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Energy and direct emissions
Processes
Allocate energy and emissions to processes
Energy/emissions footprint per process
Materials and transport
Products and amounts produced
Allocate materials to products
Allocate process usages across products
Materials/transport footprint per product
Environmental impacts:• Product• Product range• Process• Company• Sub-‐category
Environmental impactsCO2, smog, eutrophication, ozone depletion, water, resource depletion, heavy metals, etc.,
Generating an EPD
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Generating an EPD -‐ EcoChain
• EcoChain Tool is a disruptive technology• Operates in real time; cloud-‐based• Collects all data on energy, emissions, materials and transport• Reports all environmental impacts on:
– Company level (including overheads and indirect activities)– Manufacturing site level– Process level– Product level
• Per product unit• Per annual product output
• Outputs EPDs and LCA reports, automatically• Scope 1, 2 and 3 impacts
Materials per productEnergy use per productTransport per product
Reported for
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EcoChain Tool
Company Level
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EcoChain Tool
Company Level
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EcoChain Tool
Company Level
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EcoChain Tool
Process Level
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EcoChain Tool
Product Level
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EcoChain Tool
Product Level
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EcoChain Tool
Product Level
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EcoChain Tool
Product Level
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Materials Level
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EcoChain Tool
Sankey Chart – Impact Flows
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EcoChain Tool
LCA Report and EPD generator
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EcoChain Tool
LCA Report and EPD generator
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EcoChain Tool
LCA Report and EPD generator
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EcoChain Tool
Features of EcoChain Tool• Licencee is owner and user of the tool• Easily updated -‐ in real time– Accommodates real-‐time changes – evolving picture– Removes need to update LCAs or EPDs from ground up– Easy tracking of year-‐on-‐year progress, for benchmarking
• Incorporate upstream suppliers’ unique data• Consolidates impacts across group activities• Deep understanding of impacts: insights into improvements• Facilitates communication of sustainability credentials
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How EPDs are used
Manufacturer
EPD is created
Calculation tools
Practice-‐specific catalogues
TII carboncalculator
Directive 2014/52/EU
S.I. 284 of 2016
National Environmental Database
Strong EPA support
EPDs integral to ISO 14001-‐ Manufacturer-‐ Contractor-‐ Specifier
Manufacturer gets a competitive advantage
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Summary
EPDs are:
• Accurate and verified environmental data• Essential currency for compliance and communication• Building blocks for building/project calculation tools• Easily obtainable
• Vital to establish National Environmental Database