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development
and
EPD
(for
wood
products)
-­‐
the
European
context

Frank
Werner1

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Werner
Environment
&
Development,
Idaplatz
3,
CH-­‐
8003
Zürich,
Switzerland.

frank@frankwerner.ch

Keywords:
EPD,
LCA
analysis,
PCR,
wood

About
the
author

Frank
Werner
is
owner
of
the
Werner
Environment
&
Development,
which
is
specialised
in
the

elaboration
of
decision
support
for
a
sustainable
environment
and
resource
use.
Frank
Werner’s

expertise
includes
product
life
cycle
assessment,
material
flow
analysis,
environmental

management,
as
well
as
project
and
methodology
related
work
related
to
the
UN
framework

convention
on
climate
change.
Among
the
services
that
he
offers
are:

-­‐
Life
Cycle
Assessment:

• LCAs
of
building
products,

• Elaboration
of
IBU
environmental
declarations
(EPDs)
of
building
products
according
to

ISO
14025
and
ISO
21930
based
on
existing
or
newly
elaborated
LCAs,

• Review
of
LCAs
and
scientific
papers
in
this
field

-­‐
Sustainable
Construction:

• Elaboration
of
life
cycle
assessments
(LCAs)
of
building
products
and
buildings,

• Environmentally
sound
selection
of
materials
and
products,

• Elaboration
and
use
of
environmental
declarations
of
building
products
(EPDs),

• Sustainability
assessment
of
buildings.

-­‐
Climate
wood
and
development:

• Planning
and
implementation
of
afforestation
and
reforestation
project
under
the
Clean

Development
Mechanism
(CDM)
or
for
the
voluntary
market,

• Elaboration
of
afforestation
and
reforestation
CDM
baseline-­‐
and
monitoring

methodologies,

• Quantification,
monitoring
and
marketing
of
other
environmental
services
of
forests
as

part
of
an
integral
approach
to
forest
conservation.

References

More
information:
www.frankwerner.ch
(accessed
August
2nd,
2015)

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