IPO Sustainability Meeting, December 4th 2014, Paris

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2 History has been constituted in 2008 Its members are: FPA staff External consultants University professors Companies staff Politecnico di Milano Università di Bergamo

3 Lobbying Participation to the UNI mirror group Standard objective: actions within the Italian mirror group to obtain the obligation of the LCA recognition of credits at the end of life of the building material in the module A (currently provided in the module D, to be completed in draft form - form is not required) Marketing Adoption of the marketing activities conducted at the European level Promotion Updating of the web site related to the subject Publication of books and articles on sustainability and solutions for steel structures Main target: architects and engineers Information events and FPA speakers attending the event itself Regulation and Codes: dissemination through our web site of the main regulation updates (national and European level) regular meetings

4 Courses and conferences University courses: Series of lectures inside the courses of Engineering and Architecture faculties: University of Milan, Bergamo, Naples, Trento, Rome, Camerino, Pisa, Turin and L'Aquila Divulgation of the FPA books in the university libraries Politecnico di Milano Università di Bergamo Università Federico II di Napoli Università di Trento Politecnico di Torino

5 Sustainable Projects 12 projects published during 2014 on our website ( visits/month) where steel plays an important role in sustainability

6 Sustainable Projects 16 articles on Architetture in acciaio magazine and other 14 on national magazines (web and paper) Average number of readers: per month

7 Sustainable Projects Special issue on Architetture in acciaio about sustainability for steel structures in architecture

8 Brochure on industrialized steel buildings Based on several building sites experiences

9 Multi-Storey Steel Buildings: Architect's guide (Italian/English edition) National codes, one chapter devoted to sustainability and energy efficiency in architecture, plus 16 examples of multi storey buildings and a DVD containing software, technical brochures, products range and steel building technologies references

10 Fondazione Promozione Acciaio and Legambiente September 2014: meeting with Legambiente's School and Education manager, in order to develop a memorandum of understanding for a sustainable renovation of school buildings Legambiente is an Italian environmentalist association, and the aim of this meeting is to offer Fondazione Promozione Acciaio's expertise on following new Italian government's guidelines for the realization of new steel school buildings in a sustainable way

11 Events: conferences on sustainable steel buildings Bolzano, January 23th 2014: Biocasa felice conference with participants Bolzano, January 23th 2014: Costruire sostenibile conference with 60 participants Florence, March 29th 2014: Biocasa felice conference with participants Rome, November 29th 2014: Progettare, costruire ed abitare sostenibile conference with 150 participants

12 Highlights of the last Fondazione Promozione Acciaio sustainability meeting Currently, there is not a uniformity on environmental declarations: there are too many of them (LEED, BREEAM, etc.) and they are rarely mandatory, and this can create confusion among operators. Until there is not a real money saving, companies will not invest in product sustainability EGGA (European General Galvanizers Association) is going to update its EPD, based on the new 2014 LCA, together with PCRs, to be submitted to the Swedish Environdec CEN TC 350 and 351 work groups are going to conclude their tasks. Regarding TC 350, it should be necessary to monitor the introduction of new indicators for LCA and EPD. Moreover, new test protocols could be inserted in TC 351. This has to be monitored too, because these tests could be inappropriate for steel constructions (risk of a boomerang effect)

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