Developing an environmental performance standard for the materials in buildings for the Dutch Building Decree
conference paper
After consulting the building industry the Dutch government decided in February 1998 to implement sustainability requirements in the Dutch Building Decree by the year 2001. Part of these requirements will be the material-based environmental performance of a building, mepb.. An energy performance requirement for buildings is already part of the de Building Decree In a project commissioned by the Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning and Environment, a consortium of TNO, IVAM, CML, INTRON and W/E, developed a prototype for the determination method for the mepb, in phase 1. In phase 2 the final determination method will included in a Dutch standard. Phase 2 will end mid 2001. In the method a solution will be given for three elements of the determination method: • modeling dwellings and residential buildings in streams of materials at the stage of a building permit application, when not all decisions about specifications of materials have yet been taken; • the model to calculate the cradle-to-grave environmental effects of the materials used during the lifetime of a the building. The LCA (life cycle assessment) method will be the basis for the method; • developing databases with the environmental performance of building products together with the building industry.
TNO Identifier
329726
Article nr.
Paper 172
Source title
CIB World Building Congress 2001, Wellington, New Zeeland, 2-6 April 2001
Collation
7 p.
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