Summary of the construction products week in Brussels

Last week we had several events related with the new European Construction Products Regulation #CPR. The central event took place on October 30: the European Commission Commission presented the new CPR at a session in Brussels, which included a panel on digitisation and BIM. After the presentation on the DPP system by Oscar Nieto Sanz (EC), we had an interesting panel moderated by Jens Schumacher (EC) and the participation of ?ivind Rooth (Chair of CEN/TC 442) and myself (representing the consortium developing the feasibility study of the DPP system). Other related events took place the same week.

In the picture below, spanish representatives of national or european organizations attending the event. From left to right: Eduardo Lahoz Ruiz ( Instituto de Ciencias de la Construcción Eduardo Torroja IETCC CSIC ), Sergio Vazquez Jimenez ( EOTA European Organisation for Technical Assessment ), Rubén Mateo García , ( Ministerio de Transportes y Movilidad Sostenible ), María Bento Fernández Fundació ITeC - Institut de Tecnologia de la Construcció ), Oscar Nieto Sanz ( European Commission ), Aitor Aragón ( UNE Asociación Espa?ola de Normalización ), ( Jorge Jimeno Bernal Ministerio de Industria y Turismo ) and ARTURO ALARCON BARRIO ( Instituto Espa?ol del Cemento y sus Aplicaciones (IECA) .

Presentation of the survey of the DPP system study

On October 28, the EC hosted a meeting in Brussels organised by the consortium developing the feasibility study for the #DPP system for construction products ( TECNALIA Research & Innovation , Cobuilder and UNE Asociación Espa?ola de Normalización ). The picture illustrating this article includes the face-to-face participants, and we had more than 200 others online. The programme was:

• Opening and general presentation of the feasibility study- Manfred Fuchs (EC)
• Presentation of the new CPR and the DPP for construction products - Oscar Nieto Sanz (EC)
• Presentation of the feasibility study and the survey - Amaia Castelruiz (Tecnalia), Lars Christian Fredenlund (Cobuilder) and Aitor Aragón (UNE).
• Summary and closing - Manfred Fuchs (EC)

During the meeting, we presented the survey to gather information from industry, public administrations and other stakeholders on the DPP system, which was launched on October 30 and ends on November 27.

LINK TO THE SURVEY

The result will serve to revise the assumptions considered during the assessment of the different options for implementing the DPP system.

Kick-off meeting of CEN/TC 442/WG 12

The kick-off meeting of the working group that will develop a common format for the performance of construction products took place on October 29 at CEN and CENELEC headquarters in Brussels, with the option of online attendance.

The meeting started with a series of presentations. Oscar Nieto Sanz (EC) explained the DPP system in the new CPR. Christophe Sykes ( Construction Products Europe aisbl ) gave the industry perspective. Espen Schulze (Convenor WG 12) presented the ISO standards on data templates. Aitor Aragón (Secretary WG 12) explained the concept of Smart CE in Spanish standards, supported by ARTURO ALARCON BARRIO , who presented the case of cement. Martin Schreck (Convenor CEN/CLC/JTC 24/WG 1) informed about the works developed in JTC 24 for DPP and how to coordinate the activities with WG 12.

The meeting continued with a technical session to confirm the purpose and scope of the standard and the approach of the data templates. A new struture for the standard will be circulated this week, starting a short commenting period. With the comments received, a WI proposal will be submitted to CEN/TC 442 in the following weeks or months.

Coordination group of the sustainable construction committee

The Convenors and Secretaries of CEN/TC 350) met on October 31 at the belgian FOD Volksgezondheid, Veiligheid van de Voedselketen en Leefmilieu , convened by Dieter De Lathauwer (Chair of CEN/TC 350) and Karine DARI ?? (Secretariat of CEN/TC 350 representing Groupe AFNOR ).

UNE was represented by the Convenor of WG 6 for civil engineering works, Antonio Burgue?o Mu?oz ( FCC Construcción ), and myself as Secretariat. Other Convenors and Secretariats attending were: Julia Goerke , Milen Kabakov , St?le Prehn-Sletten, Svein Bjoerberg , Charlotte Forsingdal Kasper Guldager Jensen Marika Englén Pernille Br?ndstrup Kj?r, Merel Wagner , Markus Beckman, EVERT SCHUT, Flora Anvarifar, PhD and Yacine Slamti.

The goal of the meeting was to improve internal coordination, as numerous groups have been created in the subcommittee on circular economy in construction, and to prepare the changes that the new CPR will require. In particular, the revision of EN 15804 is foreseen and digitalisation aspects will need to be improved.

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