Deriving Benchmarks for Construction Products Based on Environmental Product Declarations

Anna Carstens (), Tobias Brinkmann () and Barbara Rapp ()
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Anna Carstens: University of Oldenburg
Tobias Brinkmann: brands & values GmbH
Barbara Rapp: University of Oldenburg

A chapter in Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics, 2021, pp 35-50 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) results presented in Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are complex and difficult to interpret for many EPD owners. Benchmarks provide a way to aid the interpretation of EPDs by positioning the LCA results of a product in relation to the LCA results of comparable products. In this paper, benchmarking methods which have already been applied to results of LCAs are analysed according to their applicability to EPDs. The methods of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and determination of reference values are identified as being applicable to EPDs. For comparison, these methods are applied to a case study of insulation materials. A key difference in these methods lies in the fact that reference values are calculated for individual indicators while DEA calculates efficiency for every product as a single score.

Keywords: Benchmark; Life cycle assessment; Environmental product declarations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61969-5_3

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