ECO Plat­form Board Meet­ing news from Oslo

As part of the Board meet­ing in late Sep­tem­berin Oslo, the ECO Plat­form aproved a new strat­e­gy and a code of con­duct and linked the meet­ing to an ECO busi­ness event for the first time to inten­si­fy dia­logue with Nor­we­gian companies.

ECO Platform Strategy Oslo ECO Plat­form has approved its Strategy

After months of hard work in Task Groups and thor­ough dis­cus­sions dur­ing the last Board Meet­ings and the Gen­er­al Assem­bly, the Board has approved the ECO Plat­form-Strat­e­gy for the years to come.

Strength­en the activ­i­ties by clear com­mu­ni­ca­tion and objectives

The new strat­e­gy is found­ed on the objec­tives of the Asso­ci­a­tion in our Statutes and this is the per­fect time for the ECO Plat­form to issue com­pre­hen­sive and firm state­ments that all mem­bers agree on and which define the future direc­tion of ECO Plat­form activities.

The Board and the work­ing organs of the ECO Plat­form have now draft­ed a Work Pro­gramme for the pri­or­i­ty tasks based on the new strategy.

ECO Plat­form Code of ConductECO platform Code of Conduct Oslo

It is the pol­i­cy of the ECO Plat­form to strict­ly com­ply with all applic­a­ble laws.

Because the activ­i­ties of the ECO Plat­form involve inter­ac­tion between many stake­hold­ers, it is impor­tant to empha­size the unswerv­ing com­mit­ment of the ECO Plat­form, its Board mem­bers and its Mem­bers to com­pli­ance with the high­est eth­i­cal standards.

The ECO Plat­form Code of Con­duct was now signed by all par­tic­i­pants at the Board Meet­ing in Oslo and shall be bind­ing, on all mem­bers as well as on oth­er par­tic­i­pants when tak­ing part in activ­i­ties of the ECO Platform.

 

The Nor­we­gian EPD Foun­da­tion hosts inter­na­tion­al EPD Busi­ness Event

This year, the annu­al ECO Plat­form Busi­ness Event took take place in Oslo on 27th Sep­tem­ber. The theme of the con­fer­ence “The envi­ron­ment as a com­pet­i­tive advan­tage in the inter­na­tion­al mar­ket” was strate­gi­cal­ly based on the increas­ing glob­al­iza­tion and the envi­ron­men­tal chal­lenges the world is facing.

The event was aimed at Nor­we­gian com­pa­nies, main­ly in the con­struc­tion indus­try, that are inter­na­tion­al or have inter­na­tion­al ambi­tions, but also EPD own­ers and com­pa­nies using EPD in their deci­sion-mak­ing process­es, says Håkon Hauan, CEO of The Nor­we­gian EPD Foundation.

Inter­na­tion­al focusECO Platform Business event

The speak­ers includ­ed the Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of ECO Plat­form Chris­t­ian Donath, Jane Ander­son who is an inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized expert in life cycle assess­ment and the use of envi­ron­men­tal data in the con­struc­tion prod­ucts sec­tor, and Stig Tjøtte from Hydro Aluminum.

There was also an oppor­tu­ni­ty for meet­ings with experts from sev­er­al Euro­pean coun­tries to estab­lish inter­na­tion­al contacts.

Inter­na­tion­al coop­er­a­tion in this area is pos­i­tive and it is very pos­i­tive that this event was orga­nized in Nor­way,” says Øyvind Skarholt, Chair­man of the Board for The Nor­we­gian EPD Foun­da­tion, who also par­tic­i­pat­ed in the estab­lish­ment of ECO Platform.

Håkon Hauan believes that this shows that the Nor­we­gian con­struc­tion indus­try is rec­og­nized for its posi­tion in Europe in the field of envi­ron­men­tal dec­la­ra­tions of con­struc­tion prod­ucts and that we in Nor­way have coor­di­nat­ed efforts in this area through The Nor­we­gian EPD Foun­da­tion and ECO Plat­form. “In Nor­way, we have a grow­ing trend that demands are being made for envi­ron­men­tal pre­sen­ta­tion to build­ings,” says Håkon Hauan. This has been impor­tant for build­ing prod­uct man­u­fac­tur­ers to com­pete for the envi­ron­men­tal per­for­mance of their products.