DA.1: Inventory of current practices GtoG: From production to recycling: a circular economy for the European Gypsum Industry with the Demolition and Recycling Industry Start date of the project: 2013/01/01 Duration: 36 months LIFE PROGRAMME LIFE11 ENV/BE/001039 Identifier: DA.1: Report Inventory of current practices Number of the associated action: A.1 Date: September 2013 Class: Deliverable Responsible partner: UPM Distribution: PU: Public Title: Inventory of current practices 1 DA.1: Inventory of current practices Contact Information Lead Contact giSCI, Technical University of Madrid (UPM) Phone Number +34 913365863 Email [email protected] Document Contact giSCI, Technical University of Madrid (UPM) Deliverable DA.1 report: inventory of current practices Action A1-Value chain analysis in terms of deconstruction methodologies, economics of logistics and recycling Phone Number +34 913365863 Email [email protected] Participants Cantillon Ltd (Cantillon), Eurogypsum,Gypsum Recycling Internatinal (GRI),New West Gypsum Recycling (NWGR),Knauf Gips (KNAUFKG), KS Engineering GmbH (KSE), Occamat (OCC), Placoplâtre (SG1), Pinaul&Gapaix (PIN),Recovering Sarl (REC), Recycling Assistance BVBA (RECASS), Saint Gobain Construction Products Belgium NV (SG2), Siniat FR (L1), Siniat Ltd UK (L2), National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Technical University of Madrid (UPM). GtoG Project Management Bureau Name Title Phone Email Christine Marlet Secretary 32 2 227 11 30 [email protected] general Pauline Project 32 2 227 11 62 [email protected] Chancellée Manager Thierry Pichon ERMC Chair [email protected] 2 DA.1: Inventory of current practices DOCUMENTS HISTORY A1: CONSOLIDATION OF A1.1, A1.2 AND NEW SECTIONS RELATED TO THE MARKET ANALYSIS (Coord. UPM) Version Date Author(s) 00 18/06/2013 UPM Team Comments Peer review committee: on the 00 03/07/2013 Jean-Yves Burgy, Silvia Nougarol, Tom Rommens, structure TierryPichon, Nicole Linsenmeier and Christine Marlet 01 17/07//2013 UPM Team Comments on the 01 18/07/2013 NTUA (Maria Founti) version 25/07/2013 REC (Jean-Yves Burgy and Silvia Nougarol) Christine Marlet and Eurogypsum Recycling WG 25/07/2013 25/07/2013 NTUA (Maria Founti) 25/07/2013 Eurogypsum (Christine Marlet) 01/08/2013 REC (Jean-Yves Burgy and Silvia Nougarol) 06/08/2013 UPM Team 31/07/2013 UPM (Ana Jiménez) 07/08/2013 Siniat UK (sent by Richard Hildersley) 14/08/2013 Gyproc (Tom Rommens) Recycling WG (Jörg Demmich, Hans-Jörg Kersten and 14/08/2013 Heidi Barnard) 14/08/2013 REC (Jean-Yves Burgy and Silvia Nougarol) 15/08/2013 Siniat UK (sent by Richard Hildersley) 15/08/2013 GRI (Andreas Heinz and Martine Meijering) GRI (Henrik Lund-Nielsen, Claus Woldbye and Andreas 15/08/2013 Heinz) 29/08/2013 Eurogypsum (Christine Marlet) Maarten Hendriks (NWGR) From Martin Bonaime (Siniat FR) 01/08/2013 to Martine Meijering and Henrik Lund-Nielsen (GRI) 02/09/2013 Richard Hildersley (Siniat UK) Tom Rommens (SG - Gyproc) 3 DA.1: Inventory of current practices 02 02/09/2013 UPM Team Comments on the 02 09/09/2013 Eurogypsum (Christine Marlet) version 11/09/2013 NTUA (Helen P. Grigoropoulou) 11/09/2013 NWGR (Maarten Hendriks) 11/09/2013 GRI (HenrikLund-Nielsen) 12/09/2013 Eurogypsum (Christine Marlet & Jorg Demich) 12/09/2013 REC (Silvia Nougarol) Peer review committee: 12/09/2013 Jean-Yves Burgy, Silvia Nougarol, Tom Rommens, Tierry Pichon, Nicole Linsenmeier and Christine Marlet 12/09/2013 SG2 - Gyproc (Tom Rommens) 13/09/2013 GRI (Andreas Heinz) 17/09/2013 UPM (Ana Jiménez) 17/09/2013 NWGR (Maarten Hendriks) 18/09/2013 GRI (Andreas Heinz) 03 18/09/2013 UPM Team 20/09/2013 Richard Hildersley (Siniat UK) 22/09/2013 Jean-Yves Burgy (REC) 23/09/2013 GRI (HenrikLund-Nielsen) 23/09/2013 PLACOPLATRE (Philippe Marivin) 24/09/2013 Eurogypsum Recycling WG (Jorg Demich) 04 25/09/2013 UPM Team 4 DA.1: Inventory of current practices A1.1: DECONSTRUCTION CURENT PRACTICES IN DECONSTRUCTION (Coord. RECOVERING) Version Date Author(s) 00 21/05/2013 REC (Jean-Yves Burgy and Silvia Nougarol) Comments 21/05/2013 RECASS (Johan D’Hooghe) on the 00 version 21/05/2013 Hans-Jörg Kersten (as a member of the Eurogypsum Recycling Working Group) 23/05/2013 Martin Bonaimé (as a member of the Eurogypsum Recycling Working Group) 24/05/2013 Jörg Demmich (as a member of the Eurogypsum Recycling Working Group) 27/05/2013 UPM (sent by Ana Jiménez) 29/05/2013 KS Engineering (sent by Franziska Dobler) 31/05/2013 Gwenaelle Croizer (OCC) 05 and Richard Hildersley (SINIAT UK) and John Rimmer 07/06/2013 (Cantillon) 05/06/2013 NTUA (sent by Natassa Papailiopoulou) 05/06/2013 KS Engineering (sent by Franziska Dobler) 06/06/2013 Cantillon (sent by Johan Rimmer) 06/06/2013 Gwenaelle Croizer (OCC) 07/06/2013 RECASS (Johan D’Hooghe) 11/06/2013 NTUA (sent by Natassa Papailiopoulou) 01 12/06/2013 REC Comments 13/06/2013 Cantillon (sent by John Rimmer) on the version 01 02 14/06/2013 REC Comments 05/07/2013 Knauf (sent by Nicole Linsenmeier) on the version 02 5 DA.1: Inventory of current practices A1.2: CURRENT PRACTICES IN RECYCLING AND MANUFACTURING (Coord. UPM) Version Date Author(s) 01 06/05/2013 UPM team Comments 24/05/2013 Christine Marlet and Eurogypsum Recycling WG on the version 01 02 14/06/2013 UPM team Comments 26/06/2013 Romuald Lassagne (Saint Gobain Gypsum) on the version 02 28/06/2013 Richard Hildersley (Siniat UK) 01/07/2013 Christine Marlet and Eurogypsum Recycling WG 04/07/2013 Peer Review Committee 08/07/2013 Martin Bonaime (Siniat France) 10/07/2013 Maarten Hendrick (NWGR) 10/07/2013 Christine Marlet (Eurogypsum) 15/07/2013 Jean-Yves Burgy (Recovering) 17/07/2013 Stephane Biehler (Ritleng Revalorisations) 6 DA.1: Inventory of current practices TABLE OF CONTENTS: TABLE OF CONTENTS: ............................................................................................... 7 I. AIM AND SCOPE ................................................................................................ 13 II. SUMMARY OF THE DA.1 REPORT (Guidelines for the reading) ........................ 14 III. PROJECT STRUCTURE ..................................................................................... 19 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................. 20 1.1. GYPSUM AS A RESOURCE ........................................................................ 20 1.1.1. Resource description ............................................................................. 21 1.1.2. Natural gypsum ..................................................................................... 22 1.1.3. FGD Gypsum ......................................................................................... 23 1.1.4. Other synthetic gypsum ......................................................................... 25 1.1.5. Recyclable gypsum waste ..................................................................... 25 1.2. GYPRUM PRODUCTS AND SOLUTIONS ................................................... 30 1.2.1. Properties of gypsum products .............................................................. 31 1.2.2. Applications ........................................................................................... 31 1.3. RECYCLING GYPSUM PRODUCTS: TOWARDS GREEN BUILDINGS ...... 35 1.4. MARKET CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GYPSUM INDUSTRY ................... 43 1.4.1. Market shares ........................................................................................ 44 1.4.2. The current construction market crisis ................................................... 44 1.4.3. The current profit margins ...................................................................... 45 1.4.4. Key figures ............................................................................................ 45 1.4.5. Industry fixed costs ................................................................................ 46 1.4.6. Competition with other construction products......................................... 47 1.5. RECYCLING OF GYPSUM PRODUCTS: TOWARDS RESOURCE EFFICIENT BUILDINGS.......................................................................................... 48 1.5.1. Industrial approach to closing the loop ................................................... 48 1.5.2. Innovations for a resource efficient construction sector .......................... 49 1.5.3. Sustainable construction: what does it mean? ....................................... 50 1.5.4. Environmental tools ............................................................................... 51 1.5.4.1. Life Cycle Analysis: the European Approach .................................. 51 1.5.4.2. Life Cycle Analysis: the WRAP LCA ............................................... 52 1.5.4.3. Comparison between the two LCA .................................................. 53 1.5.4.4. Use of environmental products declarations (EPD) in the Gypsum Industry ....................................................................................................... 55 7 DA.1: Inventory of current practices 1.5.5. Recycling gypsum products in evaluation systems ................................ 58 1.5.5.1. BREEAM ........................................................................................ 59 1.5.5.2. DGNB ............................................................................................. 64 1.5.5.3. LEED .............................................................................................. 65 1.5.5.4. VERDE ..........................................................................................