Web-based EPD tool for lifecycle perspective for aggregate production (EPD Berg)
Research Project, 2019
– 2022
The purpose of EPD Berg is to develop a common tool for the rock material industry that connects the actual production chain of rock materials with simulation based on proven mathematical models with European databases and other available EPD systems. The aim of the project is to develop a functioning demonstrator of a tool so that both producers and society get a common and accepted way to calculate environmental performance and interpret the environmental impact of rock material production.
The result is that the customers receive a pre-certified LCA declaration, the municipalities receive a summary of the environmental impact that will occur in the next month in all quarries in the municipality, and the site managers at the crushing plant receive a recipe for a potentially improved production from both the environmental and productivity point of view.
The effect of this is expected to be for both buyers and users to put more stringent requirements on the producers, who will also adapt to the situation over time and be forced to become pro-active in their production processes.
The project is based on the needs of the various stakeholders and the use of the upcoming tool. In addition, modeling and simulation of rock material production (Chalmers) is coupled with the environment and LCA expertise (IVL). The tool will then be tested and evaluated by the three participating rock material producers as well as by customers and authorities.
Participants
Erik Hulthén (contact)
Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development
Gauti Asbjörnsson
Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development
Christina Lee
Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development
Panagiota Papadopoulou
Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development
Collaborations
IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute
Stockholm, Sweden
NCC AB
Solna, Sweden
Roctim AB
Göteborg, Sweden
Skanska
Solna, Sweden
Swerock
Hisings Backa, Sweden
Funding
Development Fund of the Swedish Construction Industry (SBUF)
Project ID: 13738
Funding Chalmers participation during 2019–2021
VINNOVA
Project ID: 2019-00857
Funding Chalmers participation during 2019–2021
Related Areas of Advance and Infrastructure
Sustainable development
Driving Forces
Production
Areas of Advance