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Environmental Product Declarations in Ireland
Date:December 9, 2016
Authors:Pieter StadhoudersPeter Seymour
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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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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
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
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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Company Level
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Company Level
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Company Level
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Process Level
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Product Level
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Product Level
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Product Level
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Product Level
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Materials Level
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Sankey Chart – Impact Flows
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LCA Report and EPD generator
EcoChain Tool
LCA Report and EPD generator
EcoChain Tool
LCA Report and EPD generator
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
How EPDs are used
Manufacturer
EPD is created
Calculation tools
Practice-‐specific catalogues
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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
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