The revision of the EU Construction Products Regulation (EU 2024/3110) pursues important and explicitly supported objectives of furthering harmonisation of the European internal market, increasing transparency along the value chain, and integrating sustainability, climate protection and resource efficiency consistently in the construction sector. In particular, the extension of the basic requirements for construction works includes environmental criteria such as embodied energy, recyclability and environmental performance under AVS 3+ is expressly welcomed.
The windows and doors sector, and the flat glass sector, are ready to actively contribute to the achievement of these objectives. At the same time, an analysis of the current implementation mechanisms – the Digital Product Passport (DPP), the extended Declaration of Performance (DoPC) and the systems for Assessment and Verification Systems (AVS) – show that in certain areas there remains a tension between regulatory ambition and the practical reality of sectors characterised by craft-based production, SMEs and project-specific (custom-made) manufacturing. For example, only AVS 3+ allows the use of software tools to assess performance for environmental characteristics and no other performance-related essential characteristics. Against this background, this paper contributes to the dialogue with regulators and aims to jointly develop practical, proportionate and digitally supported solutions.
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Call for action on surface temperature factor
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