ISO/TC 71/SC 8 - Environmental management for concrete and concrete structures

This document provides the principles and procedures of environmental management for maintenance/remedial activities of concrete structures, and environmental management during the operation of concrete structures. When the environmental design of a concrete structure is to be carried out based on ISO 13315‑4, this document provides detailed information on the design for its use stage.

This document provides a general principle, procedures and requirements for environmental labels and declarations for concrete and concrete structures. It is used for the environmental labels and declarations for concrete constituents, reinforcement, concrete, concrete products and concrete structures. NOTE This document contains more specific requirements for environmental labels and declarations for concrete and concrete structures, based on ISO 14020, ISO 14024, ISO 14025 and ISO 21930. This document includes the following phases of concrete and concrete structures: — production phase of concrete constituents, concrete and concrete products; — execution phase of concrete structures; — use phase of concrete structures; and — end-of-life phase. This document applies to the partial life cycle (certain phases of the life cycle) or the entire life cycle of concrete and concrete structures. It applies to new concrete and concrete structures as well as to existing concrete and concrete structures.

ISO 13315-4:2017 provides the general framework, principles and requirements for carrying out an environmental design of concrete structures, based on a lifecycle assessment (LCA) method or other appropriate methods. ISO 13315-4:2017 is applicable to single concrete structures, as well as concrete structure complexes.

ISO 13315-2:2014 provides a general framework, principles, and requirements related to the determination of system boundaries and the acquisition of inventory data necessary for conducting a life cycle assessment (LCA) of concrete, precast concrete, and concrete structures.

1 Scope This part of ISO 13315 provides a framework and basic rules on environmental management related to concrete and concrete structures. This includes the assessment of the environmental impacts and methods of implementing environmental improvement based on the assessment. This part of ISO 13315 is used when assessing the environmental impacts and implementing the environmental management of concrete and concrete structures for the environmental consideration in activities related to the production of concrete constituents, the production, recycling and disposal of concrete, and the design, execution, use and demolition of concrete structures. It is applied for their entire lifecycles, respective stages of the lifecycles, or certain ranges of the lifecycles. This part of ISO 13315 is relevant to newly produced concrete and newly constructed concrete structures, and also existing concrete and concrete structures. This part of ISO 13315 applies not only to single concretes but also to concrete families and not only to single concrete structures but also to concrete structure complexes. For materials other than concrete, the related ISO standards are applied where available. In the case where no ISO standard is available, such materials are appropriately dealt with referring to this part of ISO 13315 and the normative references. The environments covered by this part of ISO 13315 include global, regional and local environments. The indoor pollution of buildings and the environments for workers in concrete producing plants and on concrete structure construction sites are not specifically covered by this part of ISO 13315. This part of ISO 13315 does not directly deal with the environmental impacts resulting from the operation of equipment installed in concrete structures. However, the special properties of concrete and concrete structures affecting the operational efficiency of such equipment are considered in this part of ISO 13315. This part of ISO 13315 covers secondary effects of the production of concrete and execution of concrete structures. This part of ISO 13315 may also cover the economic and social effects of environmental consideration in the production of concrete and execution of concrete structures. NOTE 1 ISO 16814 is available for reference as a standard for the indoor pollution of buildings. NOTE 2 The working environments of plants and construction sites are generally prescribed by industrial safety and health laws. NOTE 3 In buildings, global warming substances are mainly emitted from energy consumption due to the operation of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning equipment. NOTE 4 The beneficial effects such as thermal mass and other functions of concrete and concrete structures may be taken into account. NOTE 5 The secondary effects of the production of concrete include the future possibility of leaching of heavy metals from concrete or the absorption of heavy metals from the environment, the effect of waste treatments on the environment, etc.