Tag: LCA

• Buildings are for people: aligning social and environmental lifecycle assessments

  Buildings are where people live, work, learn, and heal. Yet European housing and construction policy defaults to metrics that obscure this: costs per square metre, emissions per floor area, units delivered per year. The European Affordable Housing Plan (EAHP) — and the simplification work underway — is an opportunity to change this logic and put the function a building serves for its users, and the resources it consumes over its lifetime, at the centre of how housing quality is defined, measured, and funded. Read on to learn how social lifecycle assessment (sLCA) and environmental LCA (eLCA), underpinned by strong European standards like EN 16309 on the social performance of buildings, can make this shift happen.

• Get involved with ECOS – answer our calls for experts!

  We have a number of open calls for experts across various topics. Our experts provide us with technical and scientific input and represent ECOS in standardisation processes and multi-stakeholder discussions. ECOS experts can participate in technical meetings for standardising bodies, such as CEN/CENELEC or ISO or prepare technical input for ECOS position papers and our responses to consultations.

• Discussion Paper – Proposals for minimum requirements on LCI database’s quality & transparency

  In the EU, Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are the go-to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) instrument to disclose environmental impacts of construction products. The latter is usually carried out according to the European Standard EN 15804+A2, which contains core rules on how disclosure needs to be carried out. With the new obligations under the Construction Product Regulation (CPR) and its implementation (under the CPR Acquis), data from EPDs will gradually become mandatory for every construction product placed on the EU market via the Declaration of Performances (DoPs).