Life Cycle Management from Global to Local | 2026
Authors: Jøssang K.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-17987-6_7
Journal: Life Cycle Management from Global to Local
Year: 2026
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media
Document Type: Book chapter
Open Access: All Open Access; Gold Open Access
Cited by: 0
This paper presents the journey of Pipelife Norway from publishing Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) in static PDF format to enabling machine-readable Digital Product Passports (DPPs) in alignment with the 2025 digital construction landscape. It explores how EPDs, traditionally used for environmental transparency, are evolving into structured digital assets that integrate with Building Information Modeling (BIM) and support Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and procurement. Through early adoption of data standards like ISO 23386, ISO 23387, and ISO 22057, Pipelife has structured its product and environmental data to enhance interoperability and automation across construction workflows. The case highlights technical and governance challenges—such as data quality, semantic consistency, and the “BIM gap”—that hinder industry-wide adoption. It also addresses the limitations of current Product Category Rules (PCRs) and the need for scalable EPDs for composite products. Ultimately, the study demonstrates that structured environmental data is critical to enabling environmental, transparent, and circular construction practices, and suggests that upcoming DPP requirements may serve as a unifying framework for digital transformation in the sector. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2026.
Architectural design; Information systems; Information use; Interoperability; ISO Standards; Life cycle; Life cycle assessment; Metadata; Building Information Modelling; Data standards; Digital assets; Digital construction; Digital products; Environmental data; Environmental product declarations; Environmental transparency; Information support; PDF format; Semantics