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Alliance of Energy Intensive Industries
Non-Energy Extractive Industry Panel (NEEIP)
REACH consortium "flue dust from cement clinker production"
Sustainable Process Industry through Resource and Energy Efficiency
ZVC SR - (Association of Slovak Cement Producers )
Hungarian Cement Concrete & Lime Association
Heidelberg Materials Kunda AS-i
Heidelberg Materials Cement Sverige
Heidelberg Materials Sement Norge
France Ciment / Organisation professionnelle de l'industrie cimentière française
MPA – Minerals Products Association - Cement
VÖZ – Vereinigung der Österreichischen Zementindustrie / Association of the Austrian Cement Industry
BACI - Bulgarian Association of Cement Industry
Svaz výrobcu cementu CR / Czech Cement Association
VDZ– Verein Deutscher Zementwerke e.V.
PCA – Stowarzyszenie Producentów Cementu / The Polish Cement Association
ATIC – Associação Técnica da Indústria de Cimento / Technical Association of the Cement Industry
Cementa Industrija Srbije / Serbian Cement Industry Association
Oficemen – Agrupación de Fabricantes de Cemento de España / Association of Spanish Cement Producers
UKRCEMENT - Association of Cement Producers of Ukraine
Hellenic Cement Industry Association
Febelcem – Fédération de l’Industrie Cimentière Belge / Association of the Belgian Cement Industry
Policy Focus
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
Industrial Carbon Management (CCUS)
CO₂ Infrastructure: A Cornerstone of Industrial Decarbonisation
Innovation Projects
Resources
Events
A truly sustainable building must balance environmental, social and economic performance across its entire lifecycle. For this reason, Cement Europe supports holistic assessments at building level, based on a full life-cycle approach and robust scientific data.
Cement Europe actively contributes to the work of CEN/TC 350 “Sustainability of Construction Works”, which develops standards to assess sustainability across all three pillars, from building-level performance down to individual products.
The standard EN 15804 provides product category rules for developing Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), ensuring transparent and comparable data for assessing construction works.
Based on these rules, Cement Europe has developed European average EPDs for three cement types, in line with EN 15804 +A2, providing measurable and verifiable input for the environmental assessment of construction projects:
Sustainability assessment is a key enabler for the transition to low-carbon construction. By providing reliable and comparable data, it allows policymakers, designers and clients to make informed decisions based on lifecycle performance rather than individual product characteristics.
A consistent and science-based approach to sustainability assessment is essential to support the development of lead markets for low-carbon construction materials. It ensures that environmental performance is measured in a harmonised way across Europe, creating a level playing field and enabling fair competition between products.
Aligning sustainability assessment frameworks with EU legislation, including the Construction Products Regulation and the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, will be critical to ensure that these tools effectively drive demand for low-carbon and circular construction solutions.
Strengthening the use of lifecycle-based assessment is therefore not only a technical requirement, but also a key condition for accelerating decarbonisation, supporting market uptake and maintaining industrial competitiveness in Europe.
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