Measuring Sustainability: The Role of LCA and EPDs

Thursday 26 June - 11.00AM (BST)

Construction faces an enormous challenge: the need to dramatically cut carbon emissions and reduce its impact on the environment. 

A powerful tool for addressing decarbonisation is life cycle assessment (LCA) – the process of measuring the environmental impact of buildings and materials across their entire lifespan.

This expert-led webinar brings specifiers and manufacturers together to give an overview of LCA and its importance to unlocking sustainability, challenges the industry faces in conducting assessments and how NBS can help.

In this session, we’ll cover:

• What life cycle assessment is and why it’s key to improving sustainability outcomes for both products and projects
• The steps involved in conducting LCAs for construction projects and the impact on material and design choices
• Common challenges faced by architects, engineers, and other specifiers when measuring whole-life carbon and other environmental impacts
• The crucial role manufacturers play in providing essential product data — including carbon metrics and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)
• How we’ve been improving NBS Source and NBS Chorus to support life cycle assessment and sustainability reporting

Speakers

• Dr Lee Jones, Head of Sustainability at Hubexo
• Evdokia Angeli, Building Carbon Specialist at Thornton Tomasetti
• Shen Tian, Global Manager - Product Sustainability at PPG

This webinar is sponsored by Johnstone's Trade (PPG).