Introducing the Drastic Project Data Protocol for sustainability assessments

🚀Introducing the #DrasticProject Data Protocol: Standardising Multi-cycle Sustainability Assessments! 🚀 📊Picture this: Multiple Drastic Demonstrators are developing innovative sustainable solutions, each evaluated by different parties using various sustainability KPIs. But here's the problem—everyone's working with different data formats and structures! 📉This fragmentation makes it nearly impossible to collect, document, and consolidate results effectively, undermining the accuracy and comparability of sustainability assessments. 📋What is the Drastic Data Protocol?📋 ✅The Data Protocol, developed by Drastic partner CAALA | LCA & CO₂-Optimierung, in collaboration with fellow project partners Madaster, VITO, and TECNALIA Research & Innovation, is the answer to this challenge: it creates a unified methodology for systematic data collection with standardised calculation processes, ensuring that all necessary data for Multi-cycle Life Cycle Assesments (MLCA) and Multi-cycle Life Cycle Costing (MLCC) can be efficiently and consistently captured. Key objectives: 🎯Facilitate systematic data gathering: streamlining the collection of data required for comprehensive sustainability assessments, regardless of the specific focus or scope. 🎯Ensure consistency: by establishing a unified data format, all demonstrators can input data consistently, enabling meaningful comparisons and consolidated analysis. 🎯Support stakeholders: providing clear guidance on data usage and priority, helping parties to understand which data points are critical and how they will be utilised. 🎯Raise awareness: emphasising the importance of MLCAs and the critical role that accurate, comprehensive data plays in evaluating environmental and economic impacts throughout a product's life cycle. 👷🏽♀️ Assessment framework👷🏽♀️ The protocol operates on three hierarchical levels: 🏘️ Building level: the highest assessment level using only project-specific data, based on EN 15978:2011 framework 🔨 Element level: the intermediate categorisation level 🧱Component level: the lowest hierarchical element based on EN 15804+A2:2019, assessed once for each smallest unit ♻️ Multi-cycle innovation ♻️ What sets this protocol apart is its focus on multi-cycle assesments—because materials don't just have one life! It captures the environmental and economic benefits of materials that go through multiple life cycles, supporting various R-strategies (reuse, recycle, etc.) through both simplified and detailed approaches. 🚀 The impact 🚀 📋 By standardising how sustainability data is collected and processed across different demonstrators and assessment approaches, the Drastic Data Protocol enables more accurate, comparable, and actionable insights for sustainable building practices. 🗣️ Because when data speaks the same language, we can finally hear what our buildings are really telling us! 🏢 Download Drastic’s D2.2 Multi-cycle Sustainability paper here 👉 https://bit.ly/3HAv3AZ