LCA of building materials within the framework of the Construction Products Regulation (CPR) in Europe

Buildings and constructed assets form the basis for economic social development. However, their production, construction, maintenance operation lead, among other things, to use of natural resources cause undesirable effects on global local environment. Increasingly, therefore, requirements environmental performance buildings are being formulated in funding programs, sustainability assessment systems legislation. Life cycle (LCA) is used as a method recording, evaluating influencing buildings. The - part it preparation LCA requires provision availability environmentally relevant product information all building materials, components technical systems. Based draft Construction Products Regulation (CPR) Europe well state standardization, contribution discusses how construction characteristics can be derived from Consequences development communication discussed.