Construction products and the environment: federal policy construction products • green claims • environmental product declarations • new legislation • Belgium Dieter De Lathauwer Scientific advisor – Construction Products: Environment & Indoor Air Quality Federal Public Service of Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment Directorate General 5 Environment Department PRODUCTS POLICY [email protected] 0. TERMINOLOGIE 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 2 Bouwproducten elk product of kit dat wordt vervaardigd en in de handel wordt gebracht om blijvend te worden verwerkt in bouwwerken of delen ervan, met inbegrip van producten voor het afwerken van muren, vloeren en plafonds zoals verven. 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 3 Milieuboodschap = geschreven communicatie over een of meerdere milieuaspecten van een product. op het product op elke andere op de drager die verpakking het product vergezelt, Op websites als hiernaar expliciet verwezen wordt op het product zelf of op de verpakking Inclusief symbolen (met uitzondering van nietmilieugerelateerde verwijzingen naar de bedrijfswebsite) NIET: reclamefolders, … 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 4 Listen carefully if: You put an environmental message on your product You put an environmental message on your website and you explicitly refer to it on your product You have an LCA/EPD and want to make it publicly available You want to have your data in the future regional building calculation tool Out of scope: Sustainable forrestry FSC, PEFC, … 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer EU Ecolabel Labels according to NBN EN ISO 14024 Blue Angel, … Regulary obligated labels: EU Energylabel, … HVAC, electric and electronical equipment 5 1. ENVIRONMENTAL CLAIMS/MILIEUBOODSCHAPPEN 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 6 Carbon approved product Low carbon footprint Carbon footprint = 135 g We have a carbon footprint BUT Quid depletion of resources? Acidification? What is a good figure? What standard? Toxicity? 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 7 100% natural ecofriendly 50% less resources 100% Bio BUT Natural also has an environmental impact! Breeding? Pesticides? 50% less resources: compared to last year? Or to the competitor? Unclear! 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 8 Sustainable product 100% Eco friendly Sustainable Sustainable wine BUT when do you reach a sustainable status? What is eco-friendly? 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 9 Goal of the decree 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 10 Royal Decree If a manufacturer decides to put an environmental claim on his product The environmental claim shall conform to NBN EN ISO 14021 LCA/EPD according to NBN EN 15804 Or you use a collective EPD A 3rd party verifies the LCA You declare the results of the LCA on the federal database You add a link to the federal database adjacent to the environmental claim on the product You put the product on the market – the LCA is publicly available 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 11 Shall not use vague claims such as “environmentally friendly” , “sustainable”, “non polluting”, “green”, … “Natural” may still contain harmful ingredients even though natural, therefor regarded as vague. No claim such as “sustainable product” Shall be accurate and not misleading Shall clearly indicate whether the claim applies to the complete product, or only to a product component or packaging Shall take into consideration all relevant aspects ofthe product life cycle Symbols: natural objects shall be used only if there is a direct and verifiable link between the object and the benefit claimed. If a comparative assertion is used, it shall be clear against what. “50% less resources”… related to the product last year? To the competitor? Vague and therefor not to be used. Shall not be made where they are based on the absence of ingredients or features which have never been associated with the product category; 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 12 Exceptions. No registration in database needed for these claims which are part of the NBN EN ISO 14021. Compostable Recycled content Degradable Reduced energy consumption Designed for disassembly Reduced resource use Extended life product Reduced water consumption Recovered energy Reusable and refillable Recyclable Waste reduction 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 13 2. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 14 LCA / EPD example Complex but complete 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 15 LCA End of life (disposal, burning) Global warming Resource extraction Acidification Resource transport Eutrophication Recycling Abiotioc depletion Production Tropospheric ozone formation Burden shifting Transport of product to the market Dismanteling Soil quality Biodiversity Particulate matter Transport to the construction site Replacement Maintenance 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer Construction phase Ecotoxicity Human toxicity 16 Water depletion De keuze van een isolatiemateriaal is immers bepalend voor de draagstructuur. De verschillende milieueffecten en verschillende levensfasen zijn relevant. Nood aan specifieke LCAdata. LCA:tim project (2012-2013) – insulation materials for external walls niet veralgemenen per type isolatiemateriaal omdat er zelfs voor eenzelfde materiaal grote verschillen zijn tussen fabrikanten 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer De oorzaken van de milieubelasting blijken verscheiden: de basisgrondstoffen en additieven (zoals brandvertragers), de productieprocessen, het gebruik van wegwerppaletten, etc http://health.belgium.be/eportal/Environment/19094872_NL?fod nlang=nl#.VImstUs5-vc Producten evalueren op gebouwniveau. 17 Collect data at product level Assessment at building level • • By aggregating the different LCA of the products: Embedded environmental impact of a building Could become a module in the known building rating schemes to replace the actual « product » parts. 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer Illustration: OVAM • Calculation tool: under development by the regions, based on CEN TC 350. • Product comparison only within product groups for production process optimization 18 simplification should be done by user-friendly interfaces not by leaving out important issues which influence decisions. 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 19 3. DATABASE 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 20 Obligations II If you want to put an EPD in the database on a voluntary basis For individual manufacturers, or groups, or federations You establish an LCA according to NBN EN 15804 A 3rd party verification of the LCA Organized by the owner of the EPD You declare the results of the LCA on the federal database Up to the manufacturer to make the LCA public or not 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 21 FEDERAL DATABASE • • • • • • • • • One single federal database / Web interface Aimed at specific data input for the regional calculation tool Possibility to declare technical performances and emissions into indoor air or soil The manufacturer can delegate the management of his database account to a third party. Manufacturer remains responsible Open for all program operators Freedom, but TRANSPARENCY (TQR) Management of database: FOD + stakeholder group. In the long run a collaboration with other actors might be opportune. 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 22 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer LCA rules • conformity to NBN EN 15804 and EN ISO 14044. • Representative for the Belgian market. • Collective EPDs: representative for every individual manufacturer • BE Product Category Rules gategrave (development starts january) Verification • Only accepted, third party verifiers • No fixed group of Belgian verifiers but an open and dynamic list of verifiers • procedure for the acceptance of verifiers (development starts january) 23 NBN EN 15804 and additionally … Environmental impacts of transport to the Belgian market Reference service life 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer Environmental impacts End-of-life Environmental impacts Additional impact categories (PEF) Environmental impacts Module D (recyclability, …) Starting from 2017 Exceptions for raw materials and semi products 24 Why additional indicators? CEN indicators extra indicators OVAM/MMG - English extended summary available: http://www.ovam.be/jahia/Jahia/cache/offonce/pid/176?actionReq=actionPubDetail&fileItem=3072 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 25 Actueel • Wij zijn momenteel bezig de databank intern aan het testen, de help-functie aan het uitwerken en een XML formaat. • De web applicatie zal vanaf 1 maart 2015 beschikbaar zijn. • Dit komt neer op een extra overgangsperiode wat betreft de registratie in de databank in het kader van het KB Milieuboodschappen. 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 26 4. OTHER MEMBER STATES 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 27 EU • CEN TC 350 • Construction Products Regulation BWR7 • EC Communication on Resource Efficiency opportunities in the Building Sector, 2014 • Links to EC Product Environmental Footprint (e.g. Indicators) 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer France • Inies & government database • Obligation environmental claims • AFNOR program operator • National addendum to EN 15804 • Building assessment tool: HQE performance • Focus on materials including building level Germany Netherlands • Ökobau.dat • IBU program operator • public buildings • EN 15804 • LCI: Gabi • Building assessment tool • Focus on buildings • Nationale Milieudatabank • MRPI program operator • SBK • Additional indicator • Not yet EN 15804 • Building assessment tool • Obligation building permit • Focus on materials including building level 28 5. SUMMARY 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 29 A first step Federal database LCA/EPD construction products against green washing Assessment at building level A regulatory framework for green claims and single indicators ISO 14021 & LCA/EPD One database for the three regions Mandatory in case of environmental claim on the product www.environmentalproductdeclarations.eu = French decree 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer Towards March 2015 Facilitate the provision of environmental product declarations from the construction products manufacturers Voluntary = Dutch and German approach 30 Some references 22 MEI 2014. Koninklijk besluit tot vaststelling van de minimumeisen voor het aanbrengen van milieuboodschappen op bouwproducten en voor het registreren van milieuproductverklaringen in de federale databank Publicatie staatsblad 14/7/2014 Arrêté royal fixant les exigences minimales pour les affichages environnementaux sur les produits de construction et pour l’enregistrement des déclarations environnementales de produits dans la base de données fédérale • • • NBN EN ISO 14021 http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/cons_safe/news/green/guidelines_en.pdf NBN EN 15804 Standards can be bought www.nbn.be 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 31 Thank you for your attention. Dieter DE LATHAUWER Scientific advisor – Construction Products: Environment & Indoor Air Quality Federal Public Services of Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment DG5 Environment Department PRODUCTS POLICY [email protected] 12/12/14 • Dieter De Lathauwer 32
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