A profile for life
More and more of our products now have an extensive environmental profile
Hager product passport
A profile
for life
With detailed environmental profiles, Hager Group helps planners and builders to find the most efficient products to suit their requirements. Around a third of Hager Group products already have a detailed environmental profile.
More and more Hager Group products leave the factory today with one of these passports. They are given what is known as a product environmental profile (PEP), which is a form of environmental passport providing accurate information on their ecological performance. “For sustainability-minded planners and builders, PEPs are an invaluable tool for assessing and planning the environmental performance of a product throughout its entire life cycle,” says Skander Hassayoune, an environmental engineer at Hager Group.
Every PEP records the environmental performance of a product based on 27 criteria including energy consumption, water consumption, raw materials consumption and CO₂ emissions. On the basis of sales, one third of the Hager Group product portfolios now has one of these PEPs. Every single newly developed product is also given a PEP as standard. This means that in the foreseeable future all Hager Group products will have their own individual environmental profiles.
At Hager Group, environmental profiling via a PEP forms part of an extensive eco design concept. This means that products and solutions are designed right from the outset to ensure their environmental footprints are kept as low as possible throughout their entire life cycles. All Hager Group R&D departments have an eco-relay, which ensures that a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the new product is also performed during the product development phase and the product concept is designed to be as efficient as possible. The results of the product’s Life Cycle Assessment are then presented in the PEP.
According to Skander, PEPs are likely to progressively become standard in the future. PEP is already standardised at European level. “The more sustainability minded builders and the construction industry itself become, the more important the performance of the individual construction components will be.” Nowadays, for example, lots of public tenders already request a PEP, and ‘green building’ labels like the French HQE or the German DGNB certificate, which stipulate environmental profiles as a requirement. For many products, an environmental profile like the ones Hager Group provides is therefore a prerequisite for their market entry and success.
