The new Construction Law enters into force on January 1.1.2025. According to the new construction law "the carbon footprint and carbon handprint of a new building or a building subject to extensive renovation requiring a construction licence must be reported in the climate assessment for the building permit". In practice, this means that from the beginning of 2025 at the latest, all companies that supply products in the construction industry will have to report the carbon footprint and carbon handprint information of their products.
In Finland, SYKE (Finnish Environment Institute) maintains a construction emissions database, https://co2data.fi service. The service maintains average emission data for construction products and construction processes and services in use in Finland. The goal of the COdata.fi service is to harmonize the calculation of the climate effects during the entire life cycle of buildings - and thus promote low-carbon construction. The service offers GWP values (Global warming potential CO2 values) for different types of products (e.g. Led lamp: https://co2data.fi/rakentaminen/#fi_id7000000490), which can be used in the calculation of the climate assessment required by the new building law.
STK (https://www.sahkonumerot.fi/) and HVAC info ( https://www.lvi-info.fi/) have already added an "Environmental information" section to their product information standard. You can enter only the codata -service identifier (e.g. 7000000490, if it is an LED lamp) into the codata.fi product database if you wish, and based on the id, STK and LVI-info's database searches codata.fi for GWP values. You can also enter the GWP values directly if you want to use the values you calculated yourself instead of the average values from codata. Watch more: Product information and environmental information
Also at Rakennustieto -service it is already possible to enter GWP values.
