Sustainability Assessment

A truly sustainable building must balance environmental, social, and economic performance across its entire lifecycle. For this reason, Cement Europe supports holistic assessments at the building level, using a full life-cycle approach based on scientific data.

Cement Europe is an active participant in CEN/TC 350 “Sustainability of Construction Works”, which develops standards to evaluate sustainability across all three pillars — from building-level assessments down to individual products.

The standard EN 15804 provides product category rules for developing Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), ensuring comparable and transparent data for assessing construction works.

Based on these rules, Cement Europe has developed European average EPDs for three cement types, in line with EN 15804 +A2, providing measurable and verifiable input for the environmental assessment of construction projects:

EPD for CEM I
EPD for CEM II
EPD for CEM III

Sustainability Assessment

Related resources

Environmental Product Declaration - CEM I

Environmental Product Declaration - CEM II

Environmental Product Declaration - CEM III

Decarbonisation and Whole-Life Carbon Policies: Proposals from the Concrete and Cement Sector

Carbon Accounting for Building Materials-CA4BM

Consortium publishes peer-reviewed study on the Global Warming Potential assessment of biobased construction products

The sustainable built environment agenda: contribution from cement and concrete

Cement Europe feedback to the European Commission’s inception impact assessment on a sustainable products initiative

Cement Europe Welcomes EU Renovation Wave

Feedback to the Inception Impact Assessment on Empowering the Consumer

EU Renovation Wave

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