21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC1 Paul van Exel, Director USPI USPI: Association for the Oil, Gas, Process & Power Industry Paul van Exel, Director USPI USPI: Association for the Oil, Gas, Process & Power Industry INNOVAFUN WORKSHOP FG-CDC Seminar Brussels Friday 21 Nov 2008 Europe–INNOVA Standards Network Depuis: Design of Environmentally friendly Products through Using information Standards

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC2 Agenda Depuis introduction 1.What is the DEPUIS project? 2.Partners 3.Specific objectives 4.Life cycle thinking 5.Interested Parties Forum (IPF) 6.The challenge of Depuis 7.Depuis house case 8.Multimedia handbook content 9.Award, references 10.Possible next project Depuis

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC3 The Depuis project DEPUIS acronym = Design of Environmentally friendly Products Using Information Standards Aims at improving the environmental friendly design of new products and services through the innovative use of new information standards Fits the European Commission Integrated Product Policy, promotion of the use of life cycle thinking with SME’s i.e. take into account the full product or plant life cycle A European project in which 10 partners participate from 8 countries. Mixture of industry groups, consultants, software companies, training institutes, certification institute Project runs two years: Sep 06 – Sep 08, extended Nov 08 Depuis standards network is one of 6 Europe Innova intiatives DEPUIS, INNOVAFUN, BIOHEALTH, EUROMIND, STAND-INN, STEPPIN

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC4 DEPUIS web site:

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC5 European participation in the project

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC6 Specific objectives of the project Help SME’s to use product data technology for communication, comparison and archiving technical data Prepare a Multimedia Handbook on product data technology and organise and provide e-learning courses with a view to enable SME’s to adopt IPP environmental tools such as LCA and Ecodesign Provide basic knowledge to software developers in order to produce software compatible with international standards Provide feedback to standards developers Possibly set-up a Certification scheme for product data technology knowledge and skills manager to support the environmental impact of products

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC7 Interested Parties Forum (IPF) The Interested Parties Forum (IPF) is a collection of of bodies and parties with SME representation, invited to: Formulate the users requirements Validate the multimedia handbook and the e- learning model The IPF is also invited to assist in promoting the importance of PDT and LCT knowledge and skills among the SME’s

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC8 Life cycle thinking and product data technology

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC9 LCA methodology The investigation and valuation of the environmental impacts of a given product (ISO 14040, standards) Goal and scope Identify system boundaries Life cycle inventory (LCI) modelling of the product system, data collection, as well as description and verification of data Life cycle impact assessment impact potentials are calculated based on the LCI results Interpretation of results

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC10 The challenge of DEPUIS Demonstrate the necessity of using information standards to support LCA thin king i.e. the environmental impact assessment of of products and installations The DEPUIS team works on the documentation of the House Case demonstrating this for optimising the construction of a house within CO2 emissions constraints

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC11 House construction with CO 2 emissions constraint Design of a house civil/structural systems wall areas room volumes wall materials foundations framework access roads mechanical systems heating/cooling electricity generation Bill of materials civil/structural materials masses and volumes of timber, plasterboard, concrete, brick, etc.. mechanical materials masses and lengths of piping, cable etc. mechanical devices boilers, heat pumps, tanks, etc. Location Length of life Total CO 2 emissions from construction for each year of use defined using ISO reference data from LCA Info Hub LCA reference data emissions for materials emissions for transport emissions for energy

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC12 Exchange scheme Depuis house case LCA Info Hub (website) XML file uri missing GUI Excel Import SPARQL X-QUERY XSLT ISO Excel sheets OWL file POSCCaesar RDS Extension construction OWL file Application Excel Calculations Macros Reports X-Query SPARQL OWL RDF XML EXCEL SPARQL XSLT - Consistent use of standards - Use of common definitions - LCA InfoHub does not contain uri’s yet LCA Info Hub Data base OWL RDF

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC13 Access to the multimedia handbook

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC14 e-learning courses

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC15 Minimum Data Sets Standards

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC16 Potential standards in life cycle stages

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC17 LCA analysis timber roof

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC18 Shot of ELCD data base (EU LCA data)

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC19 Competency matrix subjects – target staff Figure 20 A partial view of the table of competences required for each users’ class.

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC20 Possible certification of skills Figure 23 The certification schema for professional skills

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC21 Self test information mgt for companies Figure 21 A fragment of the interface of the test for the evaluation of data management inside an enterprise

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC22 The multimedia handbook target users Engineering Mgr Environmental mgr/consultant Product designer IT Manager/Consultant Software Engineer Project Engineer Procurement Professional Government Official Lecturer Student LCA Practioner SME Advisor/Support Innovation advisor / network

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC23 Depuis multimedia handbook content Foreword: standard Networks Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The concept of “life cycle thinking” Chapter 3: The DEPUIS Project Multimedia Handbook Chapter 4: Methodology of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Chapter 5: Overview of standards 5.1 Why we need product data technology 5.2 Standards for communicating information 5.3 Eco-Design and the use of international standards Use of standards throughout the lifecycle of a product Standards for communicating data for product design and manufacture - ISO Standards for product classifications and dictionaries of terms - ISO Standards for data sharing during the life of a process plant - ISO Product data and the semantic web Standards for the communication of business and commercial information – UBL and ebXML 5.4 Standards for Life Cycle Assessment Chapter 6: Example of Life Cycle Analysis Chapter 7: Lessons learned and further perspectives Glossary List of Partners in the DEPUIS Project Useful links

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC24 Achievements DEPUIS LCA data management handbook What you have to do for LCA How standards (LCA, SC4, W3C) can help E-Learning website Multi-media presentation Series of courses across Europe Attended by SMEs interested in LCA

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21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC26 Next steps - DEPUIS-CAN (idea) Concerted Action Network ontology for LCA dereferencable URIs generic LCA content EU LCA Infohub on the Semantic Web SC4 standards OWL (Web Ontology Language trade associations ISO (LCA data) DEPUIS-CAN makes this happen LCA data on the web

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC27 Next steps - DEPUIS-CAN (idea) Concerted Action Network Simple Spreadsheet based tools company A puts data about product A on the Web part 1 part 2 company B puts data about part 1 on the Web part x part y part z Semantic Web an environmental auditor follows the supply chain and puts specific environmental data about product A on the Web product A part 1 product A

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC28 References 1. Integrated Product Policy 2. DEPUIS Project website 3. Methodology for LCA 4. ENEA report SIEC OT-SCA-00020, 2000 (in italian) 5. European Life Cycle Platform 6. Sima Pro software 7. Title of parts of ISO ISO Guide 77: Guide for the specification of products and classes, ISO, Geneva 9. PLIB Portal Product Information System CASCADE Project website Universal Business Language Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language OASIS

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC29 Partners List of Partners in the DEPUIS Project ENEA, Centro Research Casaccia, (coordinator) CEPAS, Rome, Italy, Caesar Systems Ltd, London, U.K., Envirolink North West Ltd, Warrington, U.K. Escola Superior de Comerç Internacional, Barcelona, Spain. Ferroday Limited, Birkenhead, U.K. LKSoftware GmbH, Fulda, Germany. UAB LKSoft Baltic, Kaunas, Lithuania. POSC-CAESAR Association, Oslo, Norway USPI-NL, Amersfoort, Netherlands,

21 Nov 08WS INNOVAFUN / FG-CDC30 Contact point for participation The DEPUIS consortium welcomes any staff interested in joining the Interested Parties Forum (IPF) to assist in evaluating the multimedia handbook and to promote its use amongst European SME’s Contact points for this session: Paul van Exel, USPI Leader of Depuis project Anna Moreno, ENEA Italy