The prospects for the life-cycle sustainability of fans and ventilation units under the EU’s Ecodesign Regulation

This presentation will present the implications of the EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), across multiple linked EU initiatives targeting sustainability, and will discuss the EVIA’s Product Environmental Footprint project for fans and ventilation units.

Description

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Speaker

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When & Where

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Wed, 09.10.2024, 14:30 – 14:40

place

Hall 4A / 4A-419

Details

Format: Lecture

Language: English

Description

The era of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) has begun, with the express objective of the European Commission to “ensure that only the most sustainable products are sold in Europe”.

Whilst expanding ecodesign to cover almost all tangible goods, the ESPR also presents new challenges for manufacturers of the Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVACR) ‘Energy-related Products’ (ErP), even for those that are familiar with ecodesign requirements, including ENER LOT 11: Fans, and the implementing legislation for products incorporating fans, including GROW LOT 6: Ventilation units, among others.

The ESPR will mandate ENER LOT 11, GROW LOT 6, etc to more comprehensively address sustainability objectives beyond the energy efficiency requirements on which the HVACR sector has become familiar under the Ecodesign Directive since 2009. Indeed, ecodesign requirements will be extended to consider the entire life-cycle environmental impacts of products, from material efficiency, in respect to durability/reparability, to resource efficiency, in the form of recyclability, and the full life-cycle product environmental footprint.

Pre-empting the Ecodesign Regulation’s impact EVIA established a Circular Economy/Sustainability Taskforce in 2020 to ensure that the ventilation and fans industry prepares in advance for the implementation of such requirements in ENER LOT 11 and GROW LOT 6. Whilst engaging with the EU institutions on the proposal itself, the Taskforce is already laying the foundations for technical implementation in revisions of ENER LOT 11 and GROW LOT 6 in the late-2020s/early-2030s.

This presentation during the EVIA Fan Forum at Chillventa will present the implications of the ESPR, across multiple linked EU initiatives targeting sustainability, and will discuss EVIA’s long-term project to determine product environmental footprint methodologies for ENER LOT 11 and GROW LOT 6 to prepare or the next revision. It will also locate this activity in the current context of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs).