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11/2009 9/2010 FINMECCANICA MAGAZINE
ANSALDOBREDA
LIGHT METRO:
CERTIFIED
QUALITY
THE BRESCIA AUTOMATED LIGHT METRO – IMPLEMENTED
WITH THE COLLABORATION OF ANSALDOBREDA AND
ANSALDO STS, WHICH BUILT THE TRAINS AND THE LINE RE-
SPECTIVELY – IS THE FIRST SYSTEM IN THE GLOBAL RAIL AND
TRAM TRANSPORT SECTOR TO OBTAIN CERTIFICATION OF ITS
ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCT DECLARATION
Care for the environment is at
the forefront of AnsaldoBreda’s
industrial development strategies,
as confirmed by the ISO 14001
certification obtained for all its plants.
The company has adopted Life Cycle
Assessment (LCA), a methodology for
evaluating the effects of a product's
interaction with the environment over
its entire life, which helps it to understand
the direct and indirect consequences
caused and thus identify opportunities
for improvement. The resulting
reduction in the product’s environmental
impact can be announced
via the type-III Environmental
Product Declaration (EPD), governed
by ISO 14025 regulations. The
Environmental Product Declaration of
Brescia’s automated light metro system,
MetroBus, is the first ever in the
rail and tram transport sector to obtain
external certification, based on
the Product Category Rules (PCRs) relating
to UNIFE, the European association
for the railway supply industry.
The first step along the route that led
to certification of the Brescia
MetroBus’ Environmental Product
viaduct
ground
subsurface
deep-level
CO2 equivalents greenhouse gas emission*
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
0.026 0.018
Upstream
Core
1.74
7.75E-05
Use phase End of life
Downstream
1.784
Total
* 1 passenger
transport for
100 km
metro yard
Declaration was to define, with the
agreement of the sector’s largest players,
the contents of the PCRs. The PCRs
contain all the main rules for the issue
of the EPD and were required to be approved
in advance by the International
EPD Consortium (IEC). The next
stage after the definition and approval
of the contents of the PCRs, which
were drafted following numerous
meetings, was the creation of the Environmental
Product Declaration, followed
by its certification. Once all the
main rules were defined in the form of
the PCRs, activities to create and then
certify the EPD were launched. We
were the first among our competitors,
including Bombardier, which was
working towards the issue of a similar
EPD, to receive the approval of RINA.
Subsequently, the International EPD
Consortium approved the Environmental
Product Declaration created
for Brescia’s MetroBus. Also as part of
the EPD, the IEC issued the Climate
Declaration, which shows the greenhouse
gas emissions of the product
covered by the EPD, expressed as CO2
equivalent (see chart, left). This is
based on the verified results obtained
by the LCA process, which was carried
out as the basis of the EPD. By way of
example, the table on the left shows
the results obtained in terms of the
amount of recycling and recovery
achieved by the Brescia MetroBus, another
significant aspect of a product’s
environmental impact, and further
proof that care for the environment
goes hand-in-hand with AnsaldoBreda’s
development.
These pages: the Brescia automated light
metro and its route
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