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BS EN 16757:2022 Sustainability of construction works. Environmental product declarations. Product Category Rules for concrete and concrete elements, 2022
- National foreword
- European foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Scope
- 2 Normative references
- 3 Terms and definitions
- 4 Abbreviations
- 5 General aspects [Go to Page]
- 5.1 Objective of this PCR
- 5.2 Types of EPD with respect to life cycle stages covered
- 5.3 Comparability of EPD for construction products
- 5.4 Additional information
- 5.5 Ownership, responsibility and liability for the EPD
- 5.6 Communication formats
- 6 Product Category Rules for LCA [Go to Page]
- 6.1 Product category
- 6.2 Life cycle stages and their information modules to be included [Go to Page]
- 6.2.1 General
- 6.2.2 A1-A3, Product stage, information modules
- 6.2.3 A4-A5, Construction process stage, information modules
- 6.2.4 B1-B5, Use stage, information modules related to the building fabric
- 6.2.5 B6-B7, use stage, information modules related to the operation of the building
- 6.2.6 C1-C4 End-of-life stage, information modules
- 6.2.7 D, Benefits and loads beyond the system boundary, information module
- 6.3 Calculation rules for the LCA [Go to Page]
- 6.3.1 Functional or declared unit
- 6.3.2 Functional unit
- 6.3.3 Declared unit
- 6.3.4 Reference service life (RSL)
- 6.3.5 System boundaries
- 6.3.6 Criteria for the exclusion of inputs and outputs
- 6.3.7 Selection of data
- 6.3.8 Data quality requirements
- 6.3.9 Developing product level scenarios
- 6.3.10 Units
- 6.4 Inventory analysis [Go to Page]
- 6.4.1 Collecting data
- 6.4.2 Calculation procedures
- 6.4.3 Allocation of input flows and output emissions
- 6.5 Impact assessment
- 7 Content of the EPD [Go to Page]
- 7.1 Declaration of general information
- 7.2 Declaration of environmental indicators derived from LCA [Go to Page]
- 7.2.1 General
- 7.2.2 Rules for declaring LCA information per module
- 7.2.3 Indicators describing environmental impacts based on Life Cycle Impact Assessment
- 7.2.4 Indicators describing resource use and environmental information based on Life Cycle Inventory (LCI)
- 7.2.5 “Information on biogenic carbon content”
- 7.3 Scenarios and additional technical information [Go to Page]
- 7.3.1 General
- 7.3.2 Construction process stage
- 7.3.3 B1-B7 use stage
- 7.3.4 End-of-life
- 7.4 Additional information on release of dangerous substances to indoor air, soil and water during the use stage
- 7.5 Aggregation of information modules
- 8 Project report
- 9 Verification and validity of an EPD
- Annex A (normative) Requirements and guidance on the reference service life
- Annex B (informative) Waste
- Annex C (informative) Characterization factors for GWP, ODP, AP, EP, POCP and ADP
- Annex D (informative) End of life formulae
- Annex E (informative) Schemes to be applied for data quality assessment of generic and specific data
- Annex F (informative) Scenarios
- Annex G (informative) CO2 uptake by carbonation — Guidance on calculation
- Bibliography [Go to Page]