Construction & Building Supplies Industry

The new Construction Products Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2024/3110, has applied broadly since 8 January 2026. It establishes harmonised rules for expressing environmental and safety performance of construction products, explicitly including life-cycle assessment, and creates a construction Digital Product Passport system to be established through delegated acts. The revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EU) 2024/1275 also moves the market toward whole-life carbon: life-cycle GWP must be calculated and disclosed in EPCs from 1 January 2028 for new buildings above 1,000 m² and from 1 January 2030 for all new buildings. An EU calculation framework under Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/52 entered into force in May 2026. CBAM further affects major construction inputs including cement, iron and steel and aluminium.

Priority work includes EPD and product LCA, embodied-carbon reduction, low-carbon cement and metals, recycled content, material efficiency, design optimisation, construction waste, building LCA and whole-life GWP. Product and building data need to be interoperable so that material-level environmental declarations can feed project-level calculations and procurement decisions.

Metsims can support building-material manufacturers with LCA, EPD, PCF, CBAM-related embedded-emissions work and decarbonisation roadmaps. For developers, contractors and designers, Metsims can perform building LCA and whole-life GWP calculations, compare structural and material alternatives, identify embodied-carbon hotspots and develop measurable reduction scenarios.

CPR and future construction-DPP readiness can be addressed by mapping the environmental and product data that manufacturers need to structure and maintain. At project level, Metsims can connect verified product data with building models and procurement criteria so that environmental performance is considered early, when design choices still have the greatest influence. This supports regulatory readiness, green-building requirements and lower-carbon construction decisions with consistent life-cycle evidence.

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