Laws that came into force last year set in motion the gradual implementation of digital product passports (DPPs) across the EU. Essentially advanced online user guides, these will provide comprehensive information about items\u2019 origin, materials, environmental impact and disposal recommendations.<\/p>\n
In a green paper published in February, the UK Government said it was \u201caware of the development of DPPs in the EU\u201d and would \u201cconsider\u201d how they might fit into a forthcoming UK construction library. Ministers said this library would act as \u201ca trusted source for all those that need access to information about the safe and appropriate use of products\u201d. They added that it would hold information such as test results, certificates of compliance and relevant academic research. \u201cBy linking this library to the national regulator, the government aims to enhance public access to crucial data, supporting better decision-making throughout the construction sector,\u201d said the green paper.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say to a contractor looking to prepare for DPPs: speak with your supply chain. Are they ready for this?\u201d<\/p>\n
Rachel Hoolahan, Orms<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n
With the government still analysing responses to a consultation on the green paper earlier this year, and not all timelines finalised for implementation of the EU regulations, contractors are watching closely to see how digital passports will impact them on the ground. But experts believe that DPPs could become an essential part of compliance, procurement and client handover. Contractors who fail to adapt risk supply chain disruption, regulatory penalties and lost tenders, while those embracing DPPs could streamline processes, reduce risks and gain a competitive advantage.<\/p>\n
The EU\u2019s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation says: \u201cEssential information relating to the health, safety and rights of end users should always be provided to consumers by physical means and be accessible through a data carrier included on the product.\u201d This could include a watermark or QR code, the regulation says, and should be on the product itself \u201cwhere possible\u201d.<\/p>\n
Construction products are also one of four areas being targeted with pilot projects by an initiative that is already underway across the Channel. The others are textiles, electricals and tyres.<\/p>\n
CIRPASS-2, a \u20ac12.5m (\u00a310.8m) programme led by French body CEA and funded by the European Commission, aims to demonstrate DPPs in real settings. Oslo-based software provider Cobuilder is spearheading the construction section of the project and has given an insight into the format of the trial. \u201cQR codes will be implemented to link physical products with their DPPs,\u201d said the firm last year. It said a standardised data model would be used to maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of information sharing. \u201cThe pilot will encompass non-regulatory information critical to the industry, such as sustainability certifications,\u201d added Cobuilder. \u201cAll DPP information will reference common open industry standards.\u201d<\/p>\n
Implications<\/h3>\n
For contractors, there are likely to be implications in how they procure and are procured, based on the effectiveness and efficiency of managing both the physical checking and scanning of product codes, and the storing and curating of the respective digital information.<\/p>\n
The concept, while progressive, is not entirely new to the UK industry. Central London architecture practice Orms has been working on digital product information in partnership with real estate giant Grosvenor, as part of a wider thrust to boost data sharing and encourage material reuse. After releasing initial research in 2021 and forming a working group a year later, in 2024 the company produced a policy paper calling for materials databases to be created for all projects.<\/p>\n
\u201cWould you book your holiday based on a brochure that is 18 months old?\u201d<\/p>\n
Stephen Hamil, NBS<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Rachel Hoolahan, associate director and sustainability lead at Orms, wrote the latest document in conjunction with Ana Rute Costa, professor of sustainable architecture at Lancaster University. \u201cA material passport in the future might have some kind of code or stamp on it that would effectively give that detail of when it was made, what it\u2019s made of, what its capacity is and other factors \u2013 in an ideal world that\u2019s where you\u2019d like to get to,\u201d says Hoolahan. \u201cIn the real world, it\u2019s quite difficult to mark each element as it comes in [to site]. Where do you draw the line?\u201d<\/p>\n
Hoolahan and Costa looked through research produced by European sustainable construction group Buildings as Material Banks and found a diagram that shaped their own thinking from this point. \u201cIt showed how passports effectively nest with one another,\u201d she says. \u201cSo, if you start with a raw material coming out of the ground, say iron, that might get a passport as it is mined. Then that gets bought by somebody, they make it into a steel beam, which you might call a product, and filed away within the product passport is the material passport of the iron from the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n
Depending on how EU and UK rules evolve, this process could be something that contractors have to manage at various stages of building projects. \u201cThe beam comes to site and it gets assembled as part of a frame. So, all those product passports get filed away in the system passport,\u201d says Hoolahan. The hierarchy continues to \u201celements\u201d and finally whole buildings, under the pair\u2019s vision. Implementing it would mean a contractor in the future could access a digital system and navigate easily down to the historic information about every piece of an overall structure.<\/p>\n
The Orms director calls on the UK Government to manage the organisation of construction data from the top down rather than allow it to become disparate. \u201cThere are paid-for subscription platforms that are cropping up with increasing frequency to hold information for a defined period of time,\u201d Hoolahan says. \u201cThat gives me heebie-jeebies because what if someone forgets to pay the subscription? What if a developer sells their building, how does that data port over [to a different platform]?\u201d<\/p>\n
Having one source of truth on crucial product information would aid transparency and ultimately allow more material to be reused in future projects, she says. \u201cA centralised countrywide database could be really, really valuable.\u201d She suggests the UK could seek to align with the EU on digital data. \u201cThe reality is we do get a lot of products from Europe. And many UK manufacturers supply to Europe so will have to be producing DPPs for their EU market. I think it will just naturally start to trickle through here.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe UK Government could say, \u2018we are going to adopt this, thank you very much\u2019. That would set out a really clear framework that obligates the manufacturer providing the product to provide the information with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Building and maintaining a coherent and comprehensive library of construction data would require all parts of the industry to play their part in checking and recording this information correctly. \u201cI think the weak links are probably within the contractors,\u201d says Hoolahan. \u201cA lot of lads on site are like, \u2018why do I need to do that? Let\u2019s just build the thing\u2019. They\u2019re not really thinking about that big picture.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat tends to be a point of frustration and where things have fallen down on projects in the past, when people put in these fancy platforms and just can\u2019t get the teams to upload the information.\u201d<\/p>\n
Effective communication with all areas of the supply chain is critical from the outset, she believes. \u201cFor subcontractors, it starts with education. It starts by explaining that wider picture. Why do we need to do it?<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say to a contractor looking to prepare for DPPs: speak with your supply chain. Are they ready for this? Do they know what their obligations are? How are they going to pass information on to you?<\/p>\n
\u201cHow can manufacturers simplify the process as much as possible? What\u2019s the smoothest way of handing over information?\u201d<\/p>\n
Watching Europe<\/h3>\n
Stephen Hamil, innovation director at specification platform NBS, believes a form of DPP is critical for the UK building industry. \u201cWould you book your holiday based on a brochure that is 18 months old?\u201d he asks. \u201cIf information is digital and online, there is a far greater chance of it being up to date and verified than if you are taking information from an analogue source that could have been printed 15 months ago because it has sat in the warehouse at B&Q.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamil is watching the EU\u2019s work in this area intently. Like many organisations in the sector, NBS works across borders. \u201cNBS platforms will be used across Europe and further afield,\u201d he says. \u201cSo regardless of what the UK chooses, we\u2019re keeping a very close eye on DPPs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamil says Westminster has to decide what path to go down after consulting with industry. He points to a government-commissioned report published by Paul Morrell and Anneliese Day in 2023. Their Independent Review of the Construction Product Testing Regime<\/em> noted that separating from the EU gave the UK \u201cfreedom to develop standards to suit national priorities\u201d and to decide what conformity with those standards stood for.<\/p>\n
Following this logic through to digital product data, Hamil can see the advantages of a UK-specific passport scheme. \u201cI guess the negative of aligning across a wider set of countries is that you\u2019re not as independent,\u201d he says. But he adds: \u201cFrom a commercial point of view, from an economic point of view, having the same rules across a set of nations just makes trading easier, especially for larger companies that do business in more than one country.\u201d<\/p>\n
Either way, he believes embracing virtual information is important for the industry. \u201cIt is hopefully much easier to use and also extends the scope. So rather than just the key technical characteristics, it might be a safe installation guide, a safe operation guide, some of the key sustainability properties and also end-of-use guidance. It should be good for the planet, good for the user and far more efficient.\u201d<\/p>\n
Welcome change<\/h3>\n
Suzannah Nichol, chief executive at Build UK, says main contractors welcome the concept of DPPs. \u201cFor quite some time we have been talking about the need for products to arrive on site with information the relevant parties and duty-holders can quickly and easily access,\u201d she says. Nichol moots the idea of a QR code on items that anyone on a project could scan to locate data required to match them to specifications, plans, test certificates and installation instructions. This could also be linked to a building information model and play a role in the golden thread of information mandated for higher-risk buildings under the Building Safety Act, she says.<\/p>\n
She urges contractors to prepare now for DPPs. \u201cConsistently request material, product and system information in a user-friendly format that is easily accessible for everything you order and receive,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Many suppliers should be asked to register with the Code for Construction Product Information, a voluntary data management scheme, Nichol adds. \u201cCollectively we are all asking for the information to be presented clearly and consistently and provided with the product when it arrives on site.<\/p>\n
\u201cA digital passport that can be accessed by everyone who needs it without bespoke technology must surely be the way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nPassports in practice<\/h3>\n
Fletcher Priest Architects used materials passports on a 12-storey office development at 100 Fetter Lane in central London. Delivered by main contractor Mace for clients YardNine and BauMont Capital, the project incorporated a digital data system created by engineering consultancy Waterman.<\/p>\n
To date, 80 per cent of the elements by mass have been recorded through these passports. As well as dimensions and specifications, the system captures data on where a product was made, the carbon embodied in it, maintenance requirements and end-of-life instructions, says Fletcher Priest sustainability lead Joanna Wilson. And this can be updated over time. \u201cIt is a dynamic resource. I think that\u2019s the real difference between material passports and operation-and-maintenance manuals, which do tend to be quite static,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Mark Sutton, a senior associate at Fletcher Priest, says the digital system is already proving its worth as companies look to prepare units within the recently completed Fetter Lane block for their workforces. \u201cUltimately, tenants have their own designers coming fresh to the building and time is of the essence. So it means that quite quickly they can look at the elements they\u2019re going to interface with. And any changes the tenants are making, we can ensure we maintain the overall performance and don\u2019t invalidate warranties or affect sustainability factors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sutton says most manufacturers \u201cembraced\u201d digital passports as being in line with their own aspirations. \u201cThey also found actually that the information that\u2019s requested was already available. It was something that was kept within their organisation and not necessarily conveyed to the end user or the building owner.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wilson says contractors reported that complying with the passport system was more \u201ctime consuming\u201d at first but \u201cthey would be able to do it quite quickly the next time around\u201d.<\/p>\n
She calls on ministers to take control of the digital data initiative and bring it in line with the EU\u2019s. \u201cA top-down approach from the government would help a lot because that levels the playing field and would also help with standardisation.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, the construction trade doesn\u2019t care about EU boundaries. We\u2019re inevitably using products from the EU all the time. It\u2019s quite exciting that they\u2019re moving towards mandatory digital product passports for key materials. We should be looking to integrate with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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