{"id":3022,"date":"2020-11-10T11:17:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T11:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betoon.org\/2020\/11\/10\/the-first-environmental-product-declarations-in-the-estonian-precast-concrete-industry\/"},"modified":"2023-12-17T15:58:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T15:58:06","slug":"the-first-environmental-product-declarations-in-the-estonian-precast-concrete-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betoon.org\/en\/2020\/11\/10\/the-first-environmental-product-declarations-in-the-estonian-precast-concrete-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"The first Environmental Product Declarations in the Estonian precast concrete industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>O\u00dc TMB Element<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Press release<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">29.10.2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>The first Environmental Product Declarations in the Estonian precast concrete industry<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>O\u00dc TMB Element, the leading manufacturer of concrete elements in Estonia, is the first Estonian company to implement international Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for its products &#8211; precast concrete elements. These are the first EPDs in Estonia issued for products of an Estonian company.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Environmental Product Declarations are used in green certificates and building life cycle assessments (LCAs). In construction projects, where a life cycle assessment of a building is mandatory, there are already situations, especially in Scandinavian countries, where building material producers cannot participate in the procurement without an EPD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The method has been used in several countries for many years already, and several European countries have announced that it will be mandatory in the near future \u2013 in Norway and Sweden in 2022 and in Finland in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;With the implementation of Environmental Product Declarations, we will start measuring the CO2 footprint of our products and will also be able to start consciously reducing our carbon footprint,&#8221; said <\/span><b>Urmas Paas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the technology and quality manager of O\u00dc TMB Element. &#8220;On the other hand, it will allow us to become more open and competitive in our export markets, especially in several of our neighboring countries, where the use of EPDs is becoming mandatory in the coming years,&#8221; Paas added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Product life cycle assessment is a standards-based (ISO 14040) analysis that assesses the environmental impacts of a product or service,&#8221; said LCA expert <\/span><b>Anni Oviir<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. &#8220;The results of a product life cycle assessment are numerical, so different products are comparable with each other as long as they are assessed on the same basis.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The Environmental Product Declaration helps the user of the construction product to make more environmentally conscious choices by providing standardized and objective information on the environmental impacts of concrete elements,&#8221; said <\/span><b>K\u00e4tlin Rahuelu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the environment and work safety specialist of O\u00dc TMB Element. &#8220;The purpose of the declaration is to provide transparent information on the environmental impact of a product throughout its whole life cycle, in accordance with international standards. The reliability of the data is guaranteed by an independent confirmation from a third party verifier,\u201d Rahuelu added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anni Oviir: &#8220;A life cycle analysis of a construction product becomes an EPD after the results of the analysis are published on the platform of a qualified issuer and previously verified by an independent third party verifier, to make sure that the entire analysis is prepared correctly, according to the necessary standards.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>An Environmental Product Declaration<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (EPD) is a life cycle assessment, a voluntary and standardized way to reliably provide relevant, verified and comparable data on the environmental footprint of a manufactured product or family of products. The calculation covers the full environmental life cycle of the construction product, in addition to greenhouse gas emissions, it also provides other indicators affecting the environment, such as product recovery potential, use of fossil fuels, eutrophication and acidification potentials. All hazardous materials contained in a product must also be included in the EPD. Hazardous waste from production or demolition are calculated from indicators. The environmental impacts reflected in the EPD are presented in easily comparable product units, such as cubic meters or tonnes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Environmental Product Declarations of O\u00dc TMB Element\u2019s products can be viewed on the website of the issuer of the EPDs, RTS EPD (Finland): <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cer.rts.fi\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/cer.rts.fi\/en\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additional information:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Urmas Paas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Technology and Quality Manager, O\u00dc TMB Element\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tel: 56\u00a0900 789, e-mail: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">urmas.paas@tmbelement.ee<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>K\u00e4tlin Rahuelu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Environment and Work Safety Specialist, O\u00dc TMB Element\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tel: 53 092 323, e-mail: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">katlin.rahuelu@tmbelement.ee<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Anni Oviir<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, LCA Support Expert, RTS EPD official verifier<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e-mail: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">annioviir.lca@gmail.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.tmbelement.ee<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.lcasupport.com\/est<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7257\" src=\"https:\/\/betoon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/TMB-Element_Tartu_2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7258\" src=\"https:\/\/betoon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/TMB-Element_Tartu-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O\u00dc TMB Element Press release 29.10.2020 &nbsp; The first Environmental Product Declarations in the Estonian precast concrete industry O\u00dc TMB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9 - 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