tailieunhanh - Product Environmental Footprint Guide

The rapid pace of change in the regulation of building energy performance has already created tremendous problems for the construction industry and the proposed acceleration of regulatory change towards zero carbon new buildings by 2020 will only widen the gulf between ambitious Government policy and the ability of the industry to deliver. The need for a radical overhaul in education and practice in the construction industry is urgent and undeniable. The changes necessary to achieve sustainable development in our built environment will be far reaching into areas of policy, finance, procurement practice and management. However, unless we equip the industry with the fundamental skills that will allow it. | . -fr EUROPEAN COMMISSION JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE Institute for Environment and Sustainability H08 Sustainability Assessment Unit Environment and Sustainability 1 DRAFT -ONLY FOR USE STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION - 2 DO NOT USE FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE CITE OR 3 DISTRIBUTE 4 Product Environmental Product Environmental Footprint Guide DRAFT ONLY FOR THE USE IN STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION - DO NOT USE FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE OR CITE OR DISTRIBUTE 1 This page is left intentionally blank. 2 3 ii Product Environmental Footprint Guide DRAFT ONLY FOR THE USE IN STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION - DO NOT USE FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE OR CITE OR DISTRIBUTE 1 Contents 2 Executive 3 4 5 Process and 6 1. General Considerations for Product Environmental Footprint 7 How to Use this 8 Principles for Product Environmental Footprint 9 2. Role of Product Environmental Footprint Category 10 11 Role of 12 Relation between PFCRs and Product Category Rules PCRs .7 13 The CPA-based PFCR 14 3. Summary of Product Environmental Footprint Requirements and Requirements for 15 Developing Product Footprint Category 16 4. Defining the Goal s of the Product Environmental Footprint 17 18 5. Defining the Scope of the Product Environmental Footprint 19 20 Unit of analysis functional unit and reference 21 System boundaries for Product Environmental Footprint 22 Selecting Environmental Footprint Impact Categories and Assessment 23 Selecting additional environmental information to be included in the 24 Cut-off 25 6. Compiling and Recording the Resource Use and Emissions 26 General . 37 27 Screening phase to identify environmentally significant processes within the product system 28 29 Data management 30 Sources of Resource Use and .