Use Cases

Protektorwerk Florenz Maisch GmbH & Co. KG

The Ger­man Fed­er­al Cli­mate Pro­tec­tion Act also affects the con­struc­tion indus­try. As a result, it is to be expect­ed that build­ing per­mits and con­struc­tion sub­si­dies will in future be made depen­dent on the CO2foot­print of build­ings. Such cal­cu­la­tions must also take into account the pro­files for mod­ern con­struc­tion. Cur­rent­ly, there is still a lack of trans­paren­cy regard­ing the “total CO2foot­print,” and with regard to the cir­cu­lar econ­o­my, con­struc­tion prod­ucts do not yet pro­vide impor­tant infor­ma­tion such as mate­r­i­al com­po­si­tion or recy­cla­bil­i­ty. In addi­tion, we want to pro­mote our ener­gy and resource sav­ings through activ­i­ties aimed at sus­tain­able and cli­mate-neu­tral prod­uct devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion.

The solu­tion pri­mar­i­ly con­sists of devel­op­ing a dig­i­tal CO2prod­uct pass­port for the con­struc­tion pro­files man­u­fac­tured in-house at Pro­tec­tor. Data col­lec­tion will take place across the entire sup­ply chain, there­by strength­en­ing the flow and exchange of infor­ma­tion.

Anoth­er com­po­nent is a con­trol algo­rithm for the eco­nom­ic and eco­log­i­cal opti­miza­tion of pro­duc­tion process­es (in terms of ener­gy and resource effi­cien­cy). Fur­ther­more, con­cepts for imple­ment­ing a cir­cu­lar econ­o­my and inte­grat­ing the dig­i­tal CO2prod­uct pass­port into BIM (Build­ing Infor­ma­tion Mod­el­ing) or oth­er plan­ning plat­forms are being devel­oped.

The aim of the project is not only to achieve sav­ings through ener­gy and resource-effi­cient pro­duc­tion process­es, but also to cre­ate the con­di­tions for meet­ing future sus­tain­abil­i­ty require­ments on a com­mon basis. Trans­paren­cy about the mate­ri­als and their reusabil­i­ty or recy­cla­bil­i­ty will play a key role in this.

Bild: Pro­tek­tor­w­erk Flo­renz Maisch GmbH & Co. KG

Lorenz GmbH & Co.KG

There is no detailed prod­uct car­bon foot­print or data on ener­gy con­sump­tion for var­i­ous prod­ucts. There is also no medi­um that ensures a stan­dard­ized trans­fer of the PCF and ener­gy con­sump­tion to the cus­tomer. Accord­ing­ly, the ener­gy con­sump­tion along the entire process chain is also not known.

The sus­tain­abil­i­ty of recy­cled prod­ucts can­not be ade­quate­ly demon­strat­ed due to a lack of CO2and ener­gy data. 

The chal­lenge of the project is to present emis­sions and ener­gy con­sump­tion trans­par­ent­ly, while sav­ing resources through­out the entire val­ue chain and devel­op­ing new prod­uct-dri­ven busi­ness mod­els based on this.

An infra­struc­ture is to be set up to mea­sure local ener­gy con­sump­tion on a prod­uct-spe­cif­ic basis.

Indi­rect emissions/energy con­sump­tion along the process chain can be iden­ti­fied and quan­ti­fied.

A dig­i­tal prod­uct pass­port to be devel­oped should con­tain prod­uct-spe­cif­ic CO2and ener­gy con­sump­tion data and allow stan­dard­ized trans­mis­sion to the cus­tomer.

The dig­i­tal prod­uct pass­port enables the cus­tomer to make deci­sions with sus­tain­abil­i­ty aspects in mind.

When using recy­clable prod­ucts, mea­sur­able CO2and ener­gy sav­ings of >50% can be expect­ed.

Pho­to: Lorenz GmbH & Co.KG

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