Since the beginning of September, verified environmental product declarations (EPDs) have been available for 7 product areas and 19 industry product EPDs www.bau-epd.at as well as www.voeb.com ready for download. Based on uniform building material data, buildings can now be made from high-quality precast concrete products be planned, constructed and operated in a more climate-friendly and resource-efficient manner.
The aim of environmental product declarations (EPDs) is to provide transparent, verified and comparable information about the environmental impact of products and services throughout their life cycle. In order to be able to document the sustainability and environmental compatibility of high-quality precast concrete products in the form of neutral and objective data, we have been in place since September 7 product area EPDs and 19 industry product EPDs available online to all planners, architects, builders and those responsible for life cycle assessment. “The environmental product declarations created in close cooperation with Prof. Florian Gschösser and verified by the Austrian BauEPD GmbH create a uniform basis for the creation of life cycle assessments in the construction sector – with consistent and therefore comparable building material data, which can also be used in building assessment systems,” emphasizes VÖB managing director Anton Glasmaier.
The database for the sustainability assessment comes from Austrian precast concrete factories, which are also VÖB member companies. Verified EPDs with a validity of five years are now available Constructive prefabricated parts for building construction and infrastructure, flat semi-finished parts, hollow floorboards, paving stones and slabs, pipes and shafts, wooden jacket concrete blocks and slabs as well as for wall blocks and formwork blocks before. The current environmental product declarations for all VÖB product areas as well as the verified life cycle assessment data for the individual products can be downloaded free of charge at www.voeb.com/nachhaltigkeit/umwelt-produktdeklaration.asp can be downloaded as an e-book or in PDF format.
About the VÖB
The Association of Austrian Precast Concrete Plants (VÖB) is the central representation of the interests of Austrian precast concrete manufacturers. The association, founded in 1956, represents around 70 member companies – and thus the majority of all precast concrete factories producing in Austria. The VÖB was founded according to Austrian association law, is a voluntary interest group and sees itself as an innovative and open-minded business association. The precast concrete industry is an important area of the Austrian construction industry. With its high-quality products from domestic value creation, the industry stands for performance, quality thinking, resource-saving production and qualitative growth. In this way, the Austrian precast concrete factories make a significant contribution to future-proof and sustainable construction. More information at www.voeb.com and in the VÖB Beton blog https://blog.voeb.com.
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