Environmental impact categories

A Life Cycle Assessment, an LCA, calculates the environmental impact of studied building materials and construction products and results in an environmental profile, as stored in the Dutch Environmental Database.
This is done by examining the impact on different environmental impact categories. But what do these categories actually mean?

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From 1 July 2025, subject to parliamentary approval, EPB calculations will be made based on the new A2 set. This set (EN 15804+A2) consists of 19 environmental impact categories.

This transition will go together with also the new government-designated weighting set and tightening of the environmental performance requirement. As this change requires adjustments from many different parties, work on this is already underway from 2019.

For example, from 2 September 2024, the A2 data of environmental declarations will already be available alongside the A1 set, in the Calculation tools. So that the market can already gain experience with this new situation before the official entrance.