CAP’EM Cycle Assessment Procedure for Eco-Impacts of Materials Project
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CAP’EM Objectives:
- To develop a shared methodology for the life cycle analysis of the environmental and health impacts of construction materials and products.
- To evaluate 100 building products and other materials according to this new methodology and enable users to classify them according to multiple criteria.
- To increase the use and knowledge of eco-materials in North-West Europe by engaging with the building industry.
- To demonstrate the use of eco-materials in new build and renovation contexts, via a network of exhibition centres.
CAP’EM Goal:
- To promote eco-materials and to provide the construction industry with simple and practical tools to support their adoption.
CAP’EM Partners:
- The partner organisations come from Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
CAP’EM in GBE Website:
- There are links or references to CAP’EM in over 200 (of 1540) pages of this website
CAP’EM after Interreg funded: CAPEM:
- We liked working with each other so plan to continue
- We will establish a European Legal Entity
- We have submitted a proposal for LIFE funding Build4LIFE project to promote CAPEM Compass
- We will seek opportunities to expand and share the content of CAPEM Compass
- We will establish CAPEM as an EPD Programme or become part of EcoPlatform
CAP’EM Cycle Assessment Procedure for Eco-Impacts of Materials
Index:
CAP’EM Inputs/Outputs
WP0 Bid Preparation
- CAP’EM Funder: Interreg IVB NW Europe
- See Sponsors, Clients and Collaborators
- CAP’EM Partners & Match Funders table See Middle Column Fig. 6
- CAP’EM Scope of Proposal, Budget, Programme, Partners,
- CAP’EM Revised scope
- CAP’EM Management Structure
- CAP’EM Working Groups
- CAP’EM Partners
- CAP’EM Map
WP1 LCA Life Cycle Assessment
A01 Benchmark
- CAP’EM Definitions
A02 Methodology
- CAP’EM Technical Partners
- CAP’EM Method 1 2014/07/14 (£0.00)
- CAP’EM Confidentiality Agreement with Manufacturer
A03 Software Specification
- CAP’EM GUI Brief
- CAP’EM GUI Specification
- CAP’EM Tenders (minus tender prices)
- CAP’EM Tender evaluation
A04 Material Selection
- CAP’EM Products Long List schedule from which to choose 30
- CAP’EM PQQ Pre-Qualification Questionnaire to help filter out manufacturers early
- CAP’EM Short List 30 products to be assessed to test method
A05 Software testing
A06 Method testing
- PRé Sustainability & DeltaGreen
- CAP’EM project
- Case Study
- SimaPro LCA Software
- EcoInvent
- ReCiPe overview diagram (see Methodology on their website)
- CAP’EM Peer review against other methods in the market place:
- natureplus
WP2 Product Data
A07 Product Selection
- CAP’EM Product List Final: some dropped out and others stepped in
- CAP’EM COMPASS: Manufacturer and Product List
A08 Products Data Collection
- CAP’EM Product Data Collection Sheet: for collection only
- CAP’EM Product Data Sheet Template: for product data dissemination
- CAP’EM Product Database: for holding information online
- CAP’EM Generic materials: shortlist
- CAP’EM Labels: Product Accreditation, Endorsement, Accolade & Lables Table
- CAP’EM DropDownLists:
A09 LCA Data Processing
- CAP’EM Products LCAs 100 products (results only)
- CAP’EM Generic materials 150 (regionalised data)
A10 Classification and GUI
- CAP’EM GUI Evaluation tool
- CAP’EM Functional Unit calculations
- CAP’EM Product Labels Logos
- CAP’EM COMPASS
- CAP’EM Compass is an online tool for comparing building products on their environmental performances.
- CAP’EM Compass is based on Life Cycle Analysis results of the CAPEM project.
It enables the user to:
- Find the construction products based on their applications
- Find the construction products based on the user’s preferences
- Compare them mutually and to conventional products
- Filter the products based on the user’s location
- Calculate the delivery to site footprint and show the results on the graph for better and easier understanding of the users.
- CAP’EM Method
- Compass User’s Manual
- Materials Manufacturers List
- WIKI Compass
- FAQ Frequently Asked Questions PDF
Promotion:
- The biggest Flemish architects Federation NAV, link in their website, promoting the CAPEM Compass
- http://nav.be
A11 Market Approach
- Promoting Eco-materials
- Marketing Ecologiical Building Materials A Practical Navigators Guide
- CAP’EM Manufacturer’s guide booklet
- CAP’EM – Developing and promoting ecological building materials, published in Agrodome Magazine, april 2011
WP3 Communications
- A12-A15 Communications Strategy
- CAP’EM Targets v Outputs
- CAP’EM brochure:
- English – French – Dutch – German
- CAP’EM Box
- CAP’EM Box Labels
- CAP’EM Mock-ups
- CAP’EM Events
- CAP’EM Exhibition Displays
- CAP’EM Exhibitions
- CAP’EM Exhibition Brochure
- Exhibition Website
- CAP’EM Pop-up Banners
- CAP’EM Film (not happening)
- CAP’EM Videos
- CAP’EM Build4BLOG
- Subscribe
- CAP’EM News
- CAP’EM Newsletters Previous Sign-up
- (4 language options)
- No. 7 JULY 2014
- JANUARY 2014
- No. 4 MARCH – 2013
- OCTOBER – 2012
- JANUARY – 2012
- Globe 21 Newsletter
- CAP’EM UK Twitter
- CAP’EM Facebook
- CAP’EM Presentations
- CAP’EM Website (no longer)
- Existing Eco-material data-bases
- GreenSpec- UK based, leading provider of information on green building products and their application
- www.greenspec.co.uk
- NGS National Green Specification (UK Green Building Encyclopaedia)
- https://greenbuildingencyclopaedia.uk (this website)
- CD2E Eco materials database
- www.cd2e.com
- VIBE materials database
- www.vibe.be – adressen en producten
- Nature Plus products
- www.natureplus.org – products
WP4 Investments
- A16 Design & Spec Buildings
- CAP’EM Exhibition Centres
- Globe 21 exhibition launch
- VIBE Building & Exhibition
- Award
- Huddersfield Water Tower
- CAP’EM Mobile Exhibitions
- CAP’EM Exhibition Displays
CAP’EM+10% Extension
WP5 LCA to End of life Method for EPD Environmental Product Declaration
- A01 Benchmarking existing systems
- A02 Formalise partnerships in each country
- A03 Develop Calculation method for End of Life Scenarios
- A04 Adaptation of CAP’EM Method with End of life adopting Best Practice
- A05 Transnational LC event [avniR] 2014
- EC PEF Pilot PCR for Thermal Insulation
WP6 Establishing an EPD Programme Operator
- A06 Establish a Programme Operator Organisation Structure
- A07 GPI General Programme Instruction
- A08 PCRs Product Category Rules
- A09 EPD Environmental Product Declaration
Envireo
Interreg IVb Strategic Initiative Cluster.
- Interreg IVb 50% fund numerous projects including CAP’EM, Future Cities, C2CN,
- Interreg have set up relationships between projects of related activity as Strategic Initiative Cluster.
- ENVIREO is the “Strategic Initiative Cluster dedicated to mainstream sustainable building practices across North West Europe”
- The four INTERREG IVb projects in Envireo are:
Envireo Outputs
- Internet:
- Envireo: Smart phone enabled website
- Envireo: exhibition stand @ Bouwboulevard
© GBE NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan *
8th February 2013 – 2nd August 2019
CAP’EM Cycle Assessment Procedure for Eco-Impacts of Materials
Images:
Fig. 1 EU Flag
Fig. 2 Interreg IV B logo
Fig. 3 CAP’EM Logo
Fig. 4 CAP’EM COMPASS Logo
Fig. 5 CAP’EM Partners and Match co-Funders Logos
ICDuBO Holland Exhibition Poster EU Green Labels
CAP’EM, GreenSpec, natureplus, IBO, etc.
Fig. 7 Poster at Exhibition
Fig. 8 NGS CPD
Fig. 9 Presentation to JTS in the UK by BSK-CIC
Fig. 10 Presentation to JTS in the UK by BrianSpecMan
Fig. 11 CAP’EM Visit to JTS Office 2013
Fig. 12 EcoBuild 2010 Exhibition display
© GBE NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan *
8th February 2013 – 2nd August 2019
CAP’EM Cycle Assessment Procedure for Eco-Impacts of Materials
See Also:
GBE Blog News Awards
- CAP’EM has been selected to be part of the EC PEF Pilot
- 15/11/2013 CAP’EM eco-materials conference & sustainable construction demo building visit, near Lille France
- N#1140 VIBE’s CAP’EM Buiklding has won the Prize of the Press Jury in the Challenge 2020 contest!!!
- N#1145: CAP’EM Conference in France Friday 15th of November near Lille
- N#1266: CAP’EM Compass launched
- N#1301: CAP’EM Investment Building Huddersfield Station Water Tower National Railway Heritage Award
GBE Jargon Buster
- CAP’EM
- EC
- EPD
- GUI
- LCA
- PCR
- PEF
- Envireo
- European Commission (EC)
- Graphic User Interface (GUI)
- Living Green
- Product Category Rules (PCR)
- Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)
- Regain
- SUSStations
GBE CPD
- BRE Green Guide to Specification
- ‘BRE Green’ v ‘GBE Green’
- GBE PASS Product Accessory System Screening (not LCA)
- Green Material Olympics (2008) @ E5Expo
- CAPEM Project Ambitions (2009) @ Future Cities
- GBE Critique of BRE GreenGuide @ Burdens Delivering Sustainability (see also GBE Projects)
- LCA: SimaPro7 (2010) @ LSBU Architecture Students Part 2 Year 1
- LCA: Pros and Cons (2010) @ LSBU Architecture Students Part 2 Year 1
- LCA: Jargon Buster
- CAP’EM GUI (2011) @ [avniR]
- LCA: Diagrams (2012) for BRE RH
- Green Materials Olympics (2012) for ASBP @ Cullinan Studios
- LCA: What is it? (2012) @ TGR BiteSize CPD
- CAP’EM GUI (2012) @ AECB East
- CAP’EM COMPASS Building Product COMPArison SyStem (2013) @natureplus GENT
- Architects Don’t Need LCA (2013) @ VIBE Gent Belgium
- ‘Designers and Specifiers going about their normal duties do not need LCA if they filtered out the bad stuff by judging ingredients, product and their application first’
- CAP’EM Presentation to JTS at Build4 UK
- An update on CAPEM Compass and Biobased materials
- Creating Healthy Buildings @ IEMA, ____, WSCP Leeds 2014 & London 2014
- CAPEM Compass (2014) @ [avniR]
CAP’EM Tools
CAP’EM Project Outputs:
- CAP’EM Jargon Buster Excel file Worksheet 1. CAP’EM Glossary
- CAP’EM LCA Definitions Excel file Worksheet 2. LCA definitions
- CAP’EM Set of Definitions Word Doc
- CAP’EM GUI Graphic User Interface to Database
- CAP’EM Compass Building Product COMPArison SyStem
GBE Video
- CAP’EM Building Product Comparison System @ [avniR] November 2011 LCA Convention Lille by BrianSpecMan
- 28th March 2013 CAP’EM Conference Rotterdam
- 25th April 2013 Impressions Conference at HANappr.
- 175 visitors (including 60 first year students from the building institute) and 20 companies presenting their products (ecological and biobased materials in combination with energy saving/passif house).
- To give an impression of the event, people from the HAN has made a short youtube item.
- Fred van der Burgh & Han van Drunen and Sissy Verspeek
- Zo Kan Het OOk: Biobased Economy (Dutch with English translation)
- ACORP water tower
- CAP’EM’s Huddersfield Station water tower Acorp office conversion 3rd award
- http://www.kirkleeslocaltv.com/index.php/videos/acorp-water-tower-best-refurbishment-award/ ….
GBE Projects
- CAP’EM Cycle Assessment Procedures for Eco Materials
- CAP’EM Extension: EPD Environmental Product Declaration Programme
- ASBP Critique of BRE Green Guide
- GBE Critique of BRE GreenGuide (see also GBE CPD)
- C2CN Interreg IVC
- Future Cities
- Greenov: Green Renovation Cluster
- ENVIREO
- CAP’EM
- LivingGreen
- Regain,
- SUSStations
- rehafutur
- ekwation CLUSTER
GBE Links
- Bouwboulevard
- Envireo
- Envireo @ Bouwboulevard
- C2CN
- CAP’EM
- Future Cities
- Greenov: Green Renovation Cluster
- Living Green
- Regain
- SUSStations
- rehafutur
- ekwation CLUSTER
GBE Collaboration Services
- GBE Manufacturer Page
- GBE Supplier Page
- GBE DoRR
- GBE Echo ISO 14021 Self Declaration confirmation
- GBE Green Policy
- GBE Marketing
- GBE Product Passport
CAP’EM Collaborate Services
- CAP’EM Product Data Sheet
- CAP’EM Compass Adding products to the Database (reliant upon having LCA)
- CAP’EM Marketing
- CAP’EM EPD and LCA scoring the environmental impact of materials and products
- CAP’EM Detox using LCA data and Marginal Analysis to help manufacturers improve their products
© GBE NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan *
20th January 2013 – 2nd August 2019