Thursday 16/05/2013 & Friday 17/05/2013

KAHO Sint-Lieven Gent

International conference Day 1: Natural building materials in specifications and subsidies

Day 2: LCA practices and issues

Flemish Institute for Bio-Ecological Building and Living

In collaboration with

13.00h Welcome

13.20h Good-better-best: LCA-EPD-labels. Where, how an when to use? Differences? Value? Peter Thoelen, natureplus board member and director VIBE, Antwerp (BE - Nederlands) A part of the industry would rather promote environmental product declarations (EPD’s) instead of Type I labels. What is the different value of both instruments? Why are they both useful and under which circumstances? What’s the value of natureplus?

14.20h Natureplus in building certification tools: example be.refLiesbet Temmerman, architect CERAA (Centre d’Etude, de Recherche et d’Action en Architecture), Brussels (BE - Français)How are building materials evaluated in the be-ref tool which will be used by the BSBC (Belgian Sustainable Building Council)? How are Type I labels integrated and what is the weight of natureplus?

13.40h Natureplus in subsidies and building regulations: Austrian exampleHildegund Mötzl, Director and Researcher IBO (Österreichisches Institut für Bauen und Ökologie), Vienna (AT - Deutsch) How is natureplus integrated in the Vorarlberg building regu- lations? Why did they choose for natureplus? How successful is it?

14.40h Natureplus in Britain: possibilities and difficultiesGary Newman & Graham Hilton, ASBP, London (UK - English)How does the British Alliance for Sustainable Building Products (ASBP) would like to use natureplus amongst other tools? How to deal with existing (well-known) tools like BREAAM, BRE Environmental profiles etc.?

14.00h Natureplus in sustainable public procurement (SPP): Belgian exampleJo Versteven, responsible for SPP at the Belgian Public Service for Sustainable Development (BE - Nederlands)How does the Belgian Public Service uses natureplus in their tool to promote sustainable public procurement? Why did they choose for natureplus? Who uses the tool and how successful is it?

15.00h - 15.40h Coffeebreak

Thursday 16th of May, 13.00h - 17.00h Labeled natural building materials in specifications, subsidies and other official tools

EPD’s, LCA’s, building evaluation tools, building product calculators… can you keep track? A label is an easy way to recognize a building product with high standards. The independent label ‘natureplus’ has developed ambitious standards on environmental performance and health issues. What does it test? How is it applied in existing public procurement systems and subsidies? How can you use it correctly in tendering documents, specifications, subsidies, etc.? How do architects make use of it in designing buildings? What is the EU policy on type I labels?

Main target groups

* The broad range of specification writers (architects, project developers, tenderers…)

* Local and other authorities

* Subsidizing authorities

* Building product manufacturers

* Federations and companies from the building sector, etc.

* Educational and scientific institutions

Due to the international setting of the conference, simultaneous translation (to Dutch, French, English and German) will be available.

15.40h How to apply natureplus in a specification or tendering document following EU legislation and rules? Nicolas Carbonnelle, lawyer Bird & Bird LLP, Brussels (BE - Français)Which are the EU rules for the correct use of Type I labels in official documents? What is at stake? Relevant and recent juris-diction concerning the use of labels.

16.00h Sustainable buildings - a new initiative from the European CommissionJosefina Lindblom, policy officer at DG Environment, the Unit for Sustainable production and consumption EU commision, Brussels (BE - English) Communication, context, scope and added value.

16.20h What has natureplus reached in 10 years? Uwe Welteke-Fabricius, President natureplus & Thomas Schmitz-Günther, Director natureplus, Neckargemuend (DE - Deutsch)Evolution in companies and labeled products, in returns, sales and employment with natureplus-certified products.Environmental and health benefits with natureplus labeled products.

16.40h Keynote speaker arch. bOb Van Reeth, AWG Architects and former Flemish Government Architect (BE - Nederlands) The link between modest architecture, sanctity and natural building materials.

17.00 Reception

Optional 19.00h - 20.30h (Dutch) Introduction & presentation ‘Postgraduaat Duurzaam Bouwen vanuit Bio-Ecologisch perspectief’. Registration mandatory: http://www.vibe.be/agenda/vorming_inschrijven.php?id=1043

20.00h - ... Conference dinner - at your own expense

Architect Alexis Versele

Friday 17th of May, 9.30h - 17.00h LCA practice and issues

CAP’EM (cycle assesment procedure for eco-materials) developed an international LCA calculation tool. Within this Interreg IVB project, more than 100 ‘eco’ building materials where calculated. At this conference, the results, expressed in ILCD impact categories, will be shown for the first time. But we’ll also take the time to examine some difficult LCA-questions, explain different tools and results, and give practical examples with different tools.Main target groups * LCA-practitioners and –addicts, scientific institutions

* Architects, engineering offices, specifications writers

* Local and other authorities * Subsidizing authorities

* Federations and companies from the building sector, building contractors…

Main conference language: English

9.30h Welcome 9.50h Presentation of the CAP’EM project, LCA-tool & official launch of the CAP’EM COMPASSJodie Bricout, CAP’EM project manager, CD2E, Loos-en-Gohelle (FR)Explanation of the CAP’EM project and the CAP’EM LCA-method. Demonstration of the ‘CAP’EM COMPASS’ (building products comparison system).

10.10h The natureplus LCA-method explainedPhilipp Boogman, IBO/natureplus (AT)Explanation of the LCA-method of the natureplus label; differences and similarities with the CAP’EM method.

10.30h How different EPD’s and LCA-data/methods give different results: examples and how to cope with thisEls Van de moortel, architect VIBE - CAP’EMHow does the scientific field of Life Cycle Analyses communicates with the day-to-day building practice? By asking the right questions, we can take the first steps on a road that will lead to a better application of LCA in day-to-day building practice.

10.50h - 11.20h Break

11.20h LCA Practical LCA in building practice: useful tools and results for Belgium moderator: Alexis Versele, architect and tutor Kaho Sint-Lieven

11.20h LCA Experts LCA developments: differing criteria moderator: Carolin Spirinckx, project manager VITO

Belgian product policy on EPD’s, building product emissions ... Dieter De Lathauwer, Federal Public Service Environment

CEN TC 350: Where are we now? Where are we going to? Discussion topics and tendencies. Johan Van Dessel & Laetitia Delem, sector operator for Belgian mirror committee CEN TC 350 ‘Sustainability of construction works’ WTCB - BBRI (Belgian Building Research Institute)

Calculating building elements for the Flemish Administration.MMG: intentions, preliminary results & further development Roos Servaes, policy innovation OVAM (Public Waste Agency of Flanders)Comparison between two building evaluation systems in Belgium: Belgisch referentieel and Vlaamse Maatstaf Duurzaam BouwenProf. Frank De Troyer, KULeuven dept. ASRO

What is the difference between CEN criteria and ILCD criteria? Why aren’t they the same? Will they ever be the same?

The point of view of the Belgian federation of building product manufacturers BMP - Belgian federation of Building Product Manufacturers

What is the impact of integrating lifespan of building materials in LCA-calculations ?

16.00h – 16.20h Concluding lectureDesigners and specifiers going about their normal duties do not need LCA if they filtered out the bad stuff by judging ingredients and product and its application first Brian Murphy, Architect by training and a Specification Writer by choice, PeterboroughSurprising and refreshing keynote lecture from an experienced British architect and specification writer.

16.20h - Confrontation: LCA-scientist meet building practitionersDiscussion with panel

17.00h Reception

12.50h - 13.50h Lunch Presentation CAP’EM COMPASS

Pause 15.40h - 16.00h

13.50h LCA Practical LCA in building practice: useful tools and results for Belgium moderator: Alexis Versele, architect and tutor Kaho Sint-Lieven

13.50h LCA Experts LCA developments: differing criteria moderator: Carolin Spirinckx, project manager VITO

Be.global: adding LCA-data to the Passivehouse calculator PHPP: examples & future developmentsEmanuelle Rota, PMP (Plateforme Maison Passif), NamurThe PHPP software calculates and evaluates energy performances for

the construction of passive buildings. The Belgian PMP developed an

accompanying tool, adding energy related impacts of different building

materials to it. How does this work? Which LCA databases are used?

What could CAP’EM add to it?

Where did the carbon go? How LCA methods can hide a multi-tude of sins… Dr. Andrew Norton, Director Renuables, Llanllechid (UK)Carbon sequestration or carbon uptake is a tricky question amongst

LCA-scolars for many years now. In some methods, it is calculated, in

some it is not. In others, it has been taken into account once, but dis-

appeared in later versions. Why? Who is gaining or losing what? How

do the scientists think it should be calculated?

NIBE: environmental information on building products: methodology and examples.Rick Scholtes, advisor NIBE - Nederlands Instituut voor Bouw-biologie en Ecologie (Nl)NIBE’s ‘classification’ of building products is based on LCA-calculations

and is widely used in the Netherlands and Belgium. It is updated

regularly, showing interesting differences in results. How to interpret

these differences and how to make decisions, based on a changing

classification?

What about benefits and loads beyond a building product’s life cycle? Relevance and difficulties of incorporating Module D Wim Debacker (VITO) and Lisa Wastiels (WTCB) According to the European standard EN 15804 Module D allows

crediting a product or building for the recycling or reuse potential of

its materials or the exported energy. This module is rather controver-

sial amongst LCA practitioners and has been excluded from most LCA

studies so far.

What is the added value and what are the risks and difficulties of

incorporating module D in an LCA? Finally, the relevance of Module D is

studied on building level through a practical case.

Allocation methods and/or system expansion in LCA methods.Guillaume Georgeton, Researcher Technological University of Troyes (FR) Which methods to perform allocations in LCA-calculations: mass, eco-

nomic…? Which differences appear in results? With applied examples

for flax, hemp and miscanthus.

Practical pc-workshop with different Belgian tools for architects, tenderers…Alexis Versele, architect and tutor KAHO Sint Lieven GentEls Van de moortele and Sigrid Van Leemput - architects VIBE

Discussion with panel moderator: Carolin Spirinckx, project manager VITO

Practical information Date 16th - 17th of May 2013Location KAHO Sint-Lieven Gent Technology Campus, Gebroeders De Smetstraat 1 - 9000 Gent Prices 60€ (Early bird day 1 - until 30th of april - & VIBE-members) 200€ (Early bird day 2 - until 30th of april - & VIBE-members) 220€ (Early bird both days - until 30th of april - & VIBE-members)

80€ (day 1 - starting from 1th of May) 220€ (day 2 - starting from 1th of May) 260€ (both days - starting from 1th of May) Incl. lunch (day 2) and documentation Extra information Mobility plan, hotel reservations etc. The English version can be found on the registration webpage. Registration

Registration is finalised after we’ve received your payment

VIBE vzw, Grotesteenweg 91 * B-2600 Antwerpen-Berchem Tel.: 03-218 10 60 * Fax: 03-218 10 69 www.vibe.be * info@vibe.be Reknr: 523-0800593-30 IBAN: BE 15 5230 8005 9330 BIC: TRIOBEBB

natureplus is an international environ-mental organisation whose aim is the development of a culture of sustainability within the building sector. Therefore, natureplus developed an international type I label for building products which meet the highest stan-dards on health and environmental topics.

The CAP’EM is a North-West European programme. Drawing together the exper-tise of 11 partner organisations to improve the production, distribution and use of eco-materials. On the CAP’EM website, you will find LCA-results for 100 eco-materials, ready to compare via the CAP’EM Compass. The CAP’EM Compass will be launched at this conference.

We are a Flemish non-profit organisation that promotes natural building and living and educates its principles. VIBE STUDIE & ADVIES specialises in bio-ecological constructions and building materials, LCA’s etc. VIBE VORMING is responisble for educa-tional programs - small lectures, confe-rences, field trips etc. VIBE manages the ‘VIBE label’ which of-fers professionals the possibility to proof their knowledge to build environmentally friendly and healthy.

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