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BS EN 17160:2019 Product category rules for ceramic tiles, 2019
- undefined
- European foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Scope
- 2 Normative references
- 3 Terms and definitions
- 4 Abbreviations
- 5 General aspects [Go to Page]
- 5.1 Objective of ceramic tiles PCR
- 5.2 Types of EPD with respect to life cycle stages covered
- 5.3 Comparability of EPD for construction product
- 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 unit
- 6.3.2 Declared unit
- 6.3.3 Reference service life (RSL)
- 6.3.4 System boundaries [Go to Page]
- 6.3.4.1 General
- 6.3.4.2 Product stage
- 6.3.4.3 Construction stage
- 6.3.4.4 Use stage
- 6.3.4.5 End-of-life stage
- 6.3.4.6 Benefits and loads beyond the product system boundary in module D
- 6.3.5 Criteria for the exclusion of inputs and outputs
- 6.3.6 Selection of data
- 6.3.7 Data quality requirements
- 6.3.8 Developing product level scenarios
- 6.3.9 Units
- 6.4 Inventory analysis [Go to Page]
- 6.4.1 Collecting data
- 6.4.2 Calculation procedures
- 6.4.3 Allocation of inputs flows and output emissions [Go to Page]
- 6.4.3.1 General
- 6.4.3.2 Co-product allocation
- 6.4.3.3 Allocation procedure of reuse, recycling and recovery
- 6.5 Impact assessment
- 7 Content of the EPD [Go to Page]
- 7.1 Declaration of general information
- 7.2 Declaration of environmental parameters derived from LCA [Go to Page]
- 7.2.1 General
- 7.2.2 Rules for declaring LCA information per module
- 7.2.3 Parameters describing environmental impacts
- 7.2.4 Parameters describing resource use
- 7.2.5 Other environmental information describing different waste categories and outputs flows
- 7.3 Scenarios and additional technical information [Go to Page]
- 7.3.1 General
- 7.3.2 Construction process stage [Go to Page]
- 7.3.2.1 A4, Transport to the building site
- 7.3.2.2 A5 Installation in the building
- 7.3.3 B1-B7 use stage [Go to Page]
- 7.3.3.1 B1-B5 use stage related to the building fabric
- 7.3.3.2 Reference service life
- 7.3.3.3 B6 Use of energy and B7 Use of water
- 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 [Go to Page]
- 7.4.1 Indoor air
- 7.4.2 Soil and water
- 7.5 Aggregation of information modules
- 8 Project report [Go to Page]
- 8.1 General
- 8.2 LCA-related elements of the project report
- 8.3 Documentation on additional information
- 8.4 Data availability for verification
- 9 Verification and validity of an EPD
- Annex A (normative)Requirements and guidance on the reference service life
- Annex B (informative)Waste [Go to Page]
- B.1 End-of-waste
- B.2 Properties of hazardous waste for Table 5
- Annex C (normative)Characterization factors for GWP, ODP, AP, EP, POCP and ADP
- Bibliography [Go to Page]