ECO Platform Round Tables 2025
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ECO Platform Round Tables – 2025
We are pleased to announce the upcoming dates and topics for our ECO Platform Round Tables hosted by Dr. Jane Anderson.

The events are free of charge for all ECO Platform members; the ticket price for external participants is 69 EUR + VAT / event. Tickets can separately be booked via Pretix.

 

9 January 2025: Round Table #4 – Biogenic Carbon

The modelling of biobased materials, including biobased packaging, and the reporting of GWP Biogenic is one of the aspects of EPD which causes the most issues of non-compliance in EPD verification. This Round Table will start with first principles, explaining how biogenic carbon should be modelled and reported in ECO Platform EPD, and the types of checks which can be used to ensure that the results are plausible and that EPD report biogenic carbon correctly. We will also explore ways of assessing and reporting the benefits of biogenic carbon storage at product and building level and discuss the new EU Carbon Removal Certification Framework.

 

8 April 2025: Round Table #5 – Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)

Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) is held by many to be a key solution to climate change. However, EN 15804+A2 is currently clear that temporary carbon storage and delayed emissions (i.e., the discounting of emissions and removals), and permanent storage of biogenic carbon cannot be included in the GWP results in EPD, which means that the use of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage [BECCS] cannot be considered in EPD. The characterisation factor for carbonation of cement-based materials is not clear in EN 15804, and the standard does not clarify if any types of biogenic carbon can become fossil carbon. There are also many questions about how fossil carbon capture and utilisation (fossil CCU) should be modelled in EPD – for example, should the benefits be taken by the product which doesn’t emit fossil CO2 or by the product which captures the fossil CO2? Can the benefit be allocated between the two reflecting the economic value of the capture CO2 or is carbon content an inherent property that cannot be allocated between product systems? And again, for biogenic carbon, it is clear, based on the current rule in EN 15804+A2, that no benefits from biogenic carbon capture and utilisation can be shown in EPD. In addition, the proposed Carbon Removals Certification Framework will allow companies to certify both permanent and temporary carbon storage at product and building level – how could this Framework be integrated with EPD addressing CCUS in future to ensure that the benefits of carbon capture can be reflected consistently and fairly across the built environment, without double counting or undercounting.

 

8 July 2025: Round Table #6 – more details to follow soon

 

1 October 2025: Round Table #7 – more details to follow soon

 

Please note: the link to the Round Tables will be sent to registered participants shortly before the event.

 

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Location

Online Event

next Round Table: January 9TH 2025
14:00 - 16:00 CEST

Hosted by

Dr. Jane Anderson

Co-Convenor of TEWOG

Jane is an expert in Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) and construction product datasets with decades of experience.

Since 2023, Jane has co-convened the Technical Working Group (TEWOG) at ECO Platform. Her expertise includes developing generic datasets for construction materials, verifying EPD and contributing to standards for EPD and LCA.

She has her own consultancy, ConstructionLCA, and holds post-graduate qualifications in Architecture and Life Cycle Management and a PhD in the role of EPD in reducing embodied carbon.

ECO Platform Round Tables 2024/25 | Dr. Jane Anderson – Co-Convenor of TEWOG

Jane is an expert in Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) and construction product datasets with decades of experience.

Since 2023, Jane has co-convened the Technical Working Group (TEWOG) at ECO Platform. Her expertise includes developing generic datasets for construction materials, verifying EPD and contributing to standards for EPD and LCA.

She has her own consultancy, ConstructionLCA, and holds post-graduate qualifications in Architecture and Life Cycle Management and a PhD in the role of EPD in reducing embodied carbon.

Previous ECO Round Tables


 

8 July 2024: Round Table #2 – Data Quality, Uncertainty and Variation in EPD

Provides an overview of different approaches to understanding and reporting data quality, uncertainty and variation in EPD, including those provided in EN 15941:2024, QMetadata, EC3, International EPD % of specific data and Jane’s PhD thesis. Would be an opportunity to learn about uncertainty and variation in EPD, and to obtain feedback for ECO Platform on the most appropriate approaches that could be used to report data quality and uncertainty in EPD.

 

10 October 2024: Round Table #3 – Tool Verification

Provides an overview of the proposed update of the ECO Platform Tool verification guidelines.  The Round Table will be used to explain the proposed approach and obtain feedback from Tool Providers, LCA Practitioners, Manufacturers, EPD Programmes and Verifiers, providing a useful introduction to the ECO Platform internal consultation on the proposed new approach.