BS EN 17160:2019
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Product category rules for ceramic tiles
| Published By | Publication Date | Number of Pages |
| BSI | 2019 | 74 |
This document defines Product Category Rules (PCR) providing guidelines and rules for developing a type III environmental declaration (EPD) for ceramic tiles produced by extrusion and dry-pressing techniques, mainly used for internal and/or external floorings and walls coverings and façade cladding. These PCR specify the calculation rules in accordance with EN 15804:2012+A1:2013 for the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of ceramic tiles for developing an EPD, as well as the requirements on the background of the LCA. These PCR: – define the parameters to be declared and the way in which they are collated and reported; – describe which stages of ceramic tiles’s life cycle are considered in the EPD and which processes are to be included in the life cycle stages; – defines rule for the development of scenarios; – include the rules for calculating the Life Cycle Inventory and the Life Cycle Impact Assessment underlying the EPD, including the specification of the data quality to be applied; – include the rules for reporting predetermined, environmental and health information, that is not covered by LCA for a ceramic tile, construction process and construction service where necessary; – define the conditions under which ceramic tiles can be compared based on the information provided by EPD. The EPD developed using these PCR will contain data from the product stages (A1 to A3). Optionally, the manufacturer can include all modules of the product’s life cycle stages (construction process, use, and end of life) (A4 to C4), using the scenarios described in 7.3 when primary data are not available. The results of these stages shall be shown individually (without being added together). Therefore, these PCR cover: – EPD cradle-to-gate (only the product stage is considered); – EPD cradle-to-grave (the whole life cycle of ceramic tiles is considered). In these type of EPD module D may be included. After verification an EPD is valid for a 5 year period from the date of issue, after which it shall be reviewed and verified.
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| PDF Pages | PDF Title |
|---|---|
| 2 | undefined |
| 6 | European foreword |
| 7 | Introduction |
| 8 | 1 Scope |
| 9 | 2 Normative references |
| 10 | 3 Terms and definitions |
| 17 | 4 Abbreviations 5 General aspects 5.1 Objective of ceramic tiles PCR 5.2 Types of EPD with respect to life cycle stages covered |
| 18 | 5.3 Comparability of EPD for construction product |
| 20 | 5.4 Additional information 5.5 Ownership, responsibility and liability for the EPD 5.6 Communication formats 6 Product Category Rules for LCA 6.1 Product category 6.2 Life cycle stages and their information modules to be included 6.2.1 General 6.2.2 A1-A3 Product stage, information modules |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | 6.2.7 D Benefits and loads beyond the system boundary, information module 6.3 Calculation rules for the LCA 6.3.1 Functional unit 6.3.2 Declared unit 6.3.3 Reference service life (RSL) 6.3.4 System boundaries 6.3.4.1 General |
| 23 | 6.3.4.2 Product stage |
| 24 | 6.3.4.3 Construction stage |
| 25 | 6.3.4.4 Use stage |
| 27 | 6.3.4.5 End-of-life stage 6.3.4.6 Benefits and loads beyond the product system boundary in module D |
| 28 | 6.3.5 Criteria for the exclusion of inputs and outputs |
| 29 | 6.3.6 Selection of data |
| 30 | 6.3.7 Data quality requirements |
| 31 | 6.3.8 Developing product level scenarios 6.3.9 Units |
| 32 | 6.4 Inventory analysis 6.4.1 Collecting data |
| 33 | 6.4.2 Calculation procedures 6.4.3 Allocation of inputs flows and output emissions 6.4.3.1 General 6.4.3.2 Co-product allocation |
| 34 | 6.4.3.3 Allocation procedure of reuse, recycling and recovery |
| 35 | 6.5 Impact assessment |
| 36 | 7 Content of the EPD 7.1 Declaration of general information |
| 37 | 7.2 Declaration of environmental parameters derived from LCA 7.2.1 General 7.2.2 Rules for declaring LCA information per module 7.2.3 Parameters describing environmental impacts |
| 38 | 7.2.4 Parameters describing resource use |
| 39 | 7.2.5 Other environmental information describing different waste categories and outputs flows |
| 40 | 7.3 Scenarios and additional technical information 7.3.1 General |
| 41 | 7.3.2 Construction process stage 7.3.2.1 A4, Transport to the building site |
| 42 | 7.3.2.2 A5 Installation in the building |
| 44 | 7.3.3 B1-B7 use stage 7.3.3.1 B1-B5 use stage related to the building fabric |
| 45 | 7.3.3.2 Reference service life |
| 46 | 7.3.3.3 B6 Use of energy and B7 Use of water 7.3.4 End-of-life |
| 47 | 7.4 Additional information on release of dangerous substances to indoor air, soil and water during the use stage 7.4.1 Indoor air 7.4.2 Soil and water |
| 48 | 7.5 Aggregation of information modules 8 Project report 8.1 General 8.2 LCA-related elements of the project report |
| 50 | 8.3 Documentation on additional information 8.4 Data availability for verification |
| 51 | 9 Verification and validity of an EPD |
| 52 | Annex A (normative)Requirements and guidance on the reference service life |
| 56 | Annex B (informative)Waste B.1 End-of-waste B.2 Properties of hazardous waste for Table 5 |
| 57 | Annex C (normative)Characterization factors for GWP, ODP, AP, EP, POCP and ADP |
| 71 | Bibliography |
