PCR for Rails form­ing a track for vehicles 

After the approval of the Advi­so­ry Board (IBU SVR) IBU has pub­lished a new  PCR part B for Rails.

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This doc­u­ment con­tains the Require­ments on an Envi­ron­men­tal Prod­uct Dec­la­ra­tion (EPD) for the range of envi­ron­men­tal prod­uct dec­la­ra­tions pub­lished by Insti­tut Bauen und Umwelt e.V. (IBU) based on the /EN 15804/standard.

The doc­u­ment applies for:

a bar of rolled steel form­ing a track for wheeled vehi­cles. This includes rails for rail­ways, sub­ways, tram, as well as light tracks (such as those used in min­ing) and crane rails. This PCR does not include oth­er com­po­nent of a rail­way such as base plates and sleep­ers, Reg­u­la­to­ry stan­dards depend on the type of rail and the geo­graph­i­cal location

The require­ments on the EPD include:

  • Require­ments on the /EN 15804/ stan­dard as a Euro­pean core EPD,
  • Com­ple­men­tary require­ments on IBU EPD

The cal­cu­la­tion rules for the life cycle assess­ment and require­ments on the project report are spec­i­fied in a sep­a­rate doc­u­ment as Part A of the Prod­uct Cat­e­go­ry Rules.
The gen­er­al pro­gramme instruc­tions for the EPD range of Insti­tut Bauen und Umwelt e.V. (IBU) also apply.

You have access to all PCR Part B doc­u­ments via the IBU EPD online tool  www.epd-online.com.