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PIPELIFE IRELAND HAS GAINED ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCT DECLARATIONS FOR ITS FULL QUAL-PEX PLUS+ RANGE OF EASY-LAY PIPES TO HELP THE TRADE COMPLY WITH NEW REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS… Qual-Pex Plus+ offers EPDs
Pipelife Ireland’s Qual-Pex Plus+ is the first range of pipes made in Ireland to offer independently-verified data on embodied carbon. The leading manufacturer has gained Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for its full Qual-Pex Plus+ range of easy-lay pipes. A high-performance, multi-purpose piping system, Qual-Pex Plus+ is engineered for reliable distribution of hot and cold water, central heating and underfloor heating. Designed to last for a building’s whole life, the system therefore reduces its whole- life carbon impact. Pipelife’s decision to obtain EPDs for all seven sizes of its Qual-Pex Plus+ pipe range comes as larger developers and public bodies face obligations to calculate and reduce the embodied carbon of buildings. The rest of the industry is set to follow imminently as new EU rules take hold. Conor Manning, Managing Director of Pipelife Ireland, says, “Securing EPDs
for our entire Qual-Pex Plus+ pipe range reflects our commitment to supporting developers and public bodies as they work to measure and reduce the embodied carbon of buildings. It ensures that Pipelife continues to stand firmly behind our customers as embodied- carbon reporting becomes a compulsory requirement across the industry under new EU directives.” Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) Chief Executive Pat Barry has congratulated Pipelife. “It is fantastic to see leadership in Irish manufacturers reacting to the imperatives of the EPBD and producing the data that will be needed in the coming years through production of verified EPD,” says Pat. “It is particularly exciting to see data for components used in building services as this is one of the largest data gaps in whole-life carbon assessment and we need more manufacturers to provide this data.” Policy changes such as the EU Taxonomy on sustainable economic activities,
Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and 2024 revision of the EU Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings are placing pressure on building material manufacturers to produce reliable, independently-validated data on the embodied carbon of their products. The Irish government’s low-carbon construction procurement guidelines include a requirement to conduct whole- life carbon assessments on new buildings above certain budget thresholds, based on a new Life-Cycle Global Warming Potential Calculation Methodology published by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. The requirement also applies to infrastructure projects above certain budget thresholds. To enable accurate whole-life carbon calculation, product-specific EPDs are the gold standard. The seven Qual-Pex Plus+ EPDs are published on EPD Ireland, a national platform set up by the IGBC to enable Irish manufacturers to create EPDs for their products and achieve
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