ABSTRACT
The Italian Government has issued a message on the importance of digital investment when designing infrastructures included in the PNNR (National Resilience and Recovery Plan), approved by European Commission in June 2021. It calls for the verification of significant contributions for one or more environmental objectives embedded in the sustainability report, taking into account the life cycle of the infrastructure. The EPD (Environmental Product Declaration), based on the product LCA (Life Cycle Assessment), allows for estimating those environmental objectives. To design a sustainable building/infrastructure, disposing of products’ information on their environmental impacts in a format is paramount so that they can be available and automatically importable into the building/infrastructure model in the LCA calculation software. On this matter, the digitization of environmental data and their integration on the BIM (Building Information Modeling) model could hit the target. This article reviews the benefits of EPD digitization and why LCA and EPD need it.
