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Passaport de Materials: la clau d'un sector de la construcció més traçable i circular
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26 de maig de 2026
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El sector de la construcció està vivint una transformació important. La sostenibilitat ja no es limita a millorar l'eficiència energètica dels edificis o a utilitzar materials amb menor impacte ambiental. Cada cop és més important demostrar, amb dades fiables, quins materials s'utilitzen, d'on provenen, quina és la seva prestació, quin impacte generen i quines possibilitats ofereixen al final del seu cicle de vida.
Aquest canvi no només està impulsat per les tendències del mercat. La regulació europea s'està movent cap a un model en què els productes de construcció han d'anar acompanyats d'informació digital, estructurada, accessible i verificable. Un exemple clar és Reglament (UE) 2024/3110, el nou reglament europeu de productes de construcció, que estableix normes harmonitzades per a la comercialització d'aquests productes i substitueix progressivament el Reglament (UE) núm. 305/2011 anterior.
Aquest reglament, també conegut com el Reglament de productes de la construcció o Reglament CPR, promou un sector de la construcció més digital, transparent i alineat amb els objectius europeus de sostenibilitat. Un dels seus principals desenvolupaments és la introducció de la Passaport de producte digital per a productes de construcció, un sistema dissenyat per facilitar l'accés a informació tècnica, mediambiental i de compliment relacionada amb els productes.
El reglament va entrar en vigor el 7 de gener de 2025, i la majoria de les seves disposicions s'aplicaran a partir de 8 de gener de 2026, tot i que la seva implementació serà gradual i dependrà, en part, de noves normes harmonitzades i de requisits específics per família de producte.
En aquest context, el passaport de materials es converteix en una eina estratègica per a fabricants, empreses de construcció, promotores i gestors de residus. Encara que la regulació se centra principalment en el Passaport Digital de Producte, moltes de les dades requerides per complir aquest nou marc depenen directament de la informació dels materials: composició, origen, contingut reciclat, impacte ambiental, traçabilitat, reciclabilitat i documentació tècnica.
És per això que el passaport de materials no s'ha d'entendre com un document més. És una base digital que fa possible organitzar informació de materials, millorar la traçabilitat i preparar les empreses per a un mercat on les dades seran tan importants com el producte físic mateix.
Què és un passaport de material?
A passaport de materials és un registre digital que recull, organitza i manté informació rellevant sobre els materials utilitzats en un producte, edifici, infraestructura o procés de construcció. El seu propòsit és crear una identitat digital per als materials perquè puguin ser identificats, rastrejats, avaluats i gestionats durant tot el seu cicle de vida.
A diferència d'una fitxa tècnica tradicional, un passaport de materials no es limita a descriure les característiques d'un producte en el moment de la venda. La seva funció és més àmplia: connecta informació sobre l'origen, la composició, el rendiment tècnic, l'impacte ambiental, les certificacions, el manteniment, la reutilització, la reciclabilitat i la gestió del final de vida útil.
Dit això, un passaport de materials ajuda a respondre preguntes com: quins materials formen part d'un producte, d'on provenen, quina és la seva composició, si inclouen contingut reciclat, quin impacte ambiental generen, si es poden reutilitzar o reciclar, i quina documentació tècnica o ambiental els dona suport.
Aquesta informació és especialment important en la construcció, on els materials romanen integrats en edificis i infraestructures durant dècades. Un edifici pot contenir acer, formigó, fusta, vidre, alumini, aïllament, terres, panells, cables, revestiments i molts components tècnics. Sense una traçabilitat adequada, gran part d'aquesta informació es perd amb el temps.
Quan un edifici es reforma, es renova o es desmantella, molts materials es tracten com a residus de baix valor simplement perquè la seva composició, origen o estat no es coneix amb precisió. No obstant això, si aquests materials tenen un passaport digital, poden conservar la seva identitat i convertir-se en recursos valuosos per a nous cicles de producció.
El passaport de materials permet la transició d'una lògica lineal cap a una de circular. En lloc de fabricar, utilitzar i descartar, permet identificar, mantenir, recuperar i valorar els materials. Aquesta diferència és essencial per construir una economia més eficient en l'ús dels recursos.
També és important entendre que un passaport de materials no ha de ser igual per a cada empresa. El seu contingut pot variar segons el tipus de producte, el nivell de detall requerit, el sector, la cadena de subministrament i els objectius de l'empresa. No obstant això, el seu propòsit és sempre el mateix: convertir la informació material en dades útils, traçables i accionables.
Why the material passport is key for construction
The construction sector concentrates a large quantity of materials that, once installed, may remain inside buildings and infrastructure for decades. However, the information associated with those materials is not always preserved with the same level of accuracy. Data on composition, origin, certifications, environmental impact, or recovery potential is often spread across different documents, companies, and project phases.
This lack of continuity creates an important problem: when a material loses its information, it also loses part of its value. It becomes more difficult to prove its quality, justify its compliance, plan its maintenance, or recover it properly at the end of its life cycle.
El passaport de materials addresses this challenge by creating a digital identity for each material or construction product. In this way, information is no longer limited to a technical sheet or an isolated certificate, but can accompany the material throughout its entire journey: from manufacturing to installation, use, refurbishment, dismantling, or recycling.
In practice, this allows better decisions to be made at every stage of a project. During design, it helps select materials with more complete data on performance, environmental impact, recycled content, or circularity potential. During construction, it facilitates the traceability of installed products and improves document control. During the building’s use phase, it can support maintenance, replacement, or renovation tasks. And at end of life, it helps identify which materials can be reused, recycled, or recovered with greater guarantees.
The material passport also responds to an increasingly important need for companies in the sector: proving claims with data. In a market where regulatory requirements, ESG criteria, and demands from clients and public administrations are increasing, having structured information about materials can become a competitive advantage.
For this reason, its importance goes beyond sustainability. The material passport helps reduce information loss, improve traceability, facilitate regulatory compliance, and prepare the sector for a more circular, digital, and efficient construction model.
What information does a material passport include?
A passaport de materials can include different levels of information depending on its intended use. However, to be truly useful, it should include technical, environmental, circular, and documentary data.
- Material Identification: Basic data linking the physical material to its digital record (name, manufacturer, supplier, batch, production date, reference code, location, product family, unique identifier).
- Composition: Details of the material’s components, such as raw materials, percentages, recycled content, additives, treatments, or coatings, useful for assessing recyclability, safety, and compatibility.
- Technical Performance: Properties and tests related to strength, durability, safety, thermal/acoustic insulation, stability, and mechanical performance, including usage conditions and installation instructions.
- Environmental Information: Indicators such as carbon footprint, energy and water consumption, associated emissions, life cycle assessments, environmental declarations, and certifications.
- Circular Information: End-of-life considerations, including reuse potential, recyclability, dismantling instructions, repair options, valorization, or return to the manufacturer.
- Compliance Documentation: Certifications, CE marking, declarations of conformity, manuals, warranties, and any evidence demonstrating regulatory compliance.
- Material History: Record of events throughout its life cycle: manufacturing, transport, delivery, installation, maintenance, repair, dismantling, reuse, or recycling.
This last point is especially important. A material passport should not be a static snapshot of the product, but a living record. Its value increases when it can be updated and accompany the material throughout its entire life cycle.
The key is for data to be structured, verifiable, and interoperable. It is not simply about uploading documents to a platform, but about turning information into a digital asset that can be consulted, shared, and used to make decisions.
Benefits for manufacturers, construction companies, and waste managers
El passaport de materials adds value across the entire construction value chain, from manufacturing to end-of-life management. Its information helps improve processes, ensure compliance, and create value at every project stage.
For manufacturers, it allows them to demonstrate the sustainability and quality of their products with verifiable data, differentiate from competitors, facilitate audits, respond better to tenders, and improve internal supply chain management.
For construction companies, it centralizes on-site information, improves document control, reduces administrative time, and enhances traceability and compliance with environmental and certification requirements.
For developers, it provides transparency and supports maintenance, future refurbishments, and audits. For architects and engineering firms, it enables data-driven decisions regarding cost, technical performance, environmental impact, and circularity of materials.
For waste managers and recyclers, it improves material separation, classification, and valorization, enhancing recycling quality and generating higher-value secondary raw materials.
Overall, the passaport de materials goes beyond regulatory compliance, increasing efficiency, reducing risks, enhancing transparency, and opening new business opportunities.
How to start implementing a material passport with EasyTrack
Implementació d'una passaport de materials does not have to begin with a complex project or a major technological integration. For many companies, the first step is to organise the information they already have about their products and materials, identify missing data, and create a first functional version of the passport.
EasyTrack, CircularPass’ solution, is designed precisely for this starting point. It enables companies to begin their journey towards the passaport de materials in a guided, practical, and scalable way.
Through EasyTrack, a company can select a product, a family of materials, or a specific line and turn its existing information into a first digital structure. This makes it possible to visualise how the passport would work, what data is needed, and what improvements should be made to move towards more complete traceability.
The value of EasyTrack lies in the fact that companies can start without having to digitise their entire catalogue from day one. They can validate a first use case, prepare their data for future regulatory requirements, and build a clear roadmap to scale the solution.
In this way, the passaport de materials stops being an abstract idea and becomes a concrete, manageable, and results-oriented first project.
Practical applications of the material passport
El passaport de materials becomes valuable when it moves from being a digital record to becoming an operational tool. Its usefulness is especially clear when information can be shared among different actors in the value chain in a secure, interoperable, and traceable way.
At Blue Room Innovation, we have worked on projects that demonstrate how digital passports can be applied in real construction-sector contexts, connecting materials, products, waste, and data spaces. This experience allows us to understand the material passport not only as a documentation tool, but as a digital infrastructure to drive the circular economy.
One example is our participation in RETECH, where we developed a data connector to link digital passports associated with waste to a federated data space. The objective was to facilitate the circular traceability of materials and waste generated on construction sites, enabling information to be shared among different ecosystem actors in a controlled and interoperable way.
This approach makes it possible to record relevant information about construction waste, such as its origin, composition, traceability, environmental impact, or valorisation potential. In this way, waste is no longer managed as an opaque flow and is instead treated as a resource with associated information. This supports more sustainable decisions, such as prioritising reuse, improving classification, optimising recycling, or calculating environmental indicators such as carbon footprint.
Another relevant case is Digital Nexus, an initiative in which we worked alongside i2CAT Foundation and Celsa Group to connect CircularPass with European data spaces. In this project, we validated how digital passports can exchange information between organisations in a secure, standardised, and interoperable way.
This connection is essential for the future of construction. A manufacturer, construction company, recycler, or public administration may need access to information about the same material, but not all actors should see the same data or have the same level of permissions. Data spaces make it possible to share information while maintaining each actor’s sovereignty over its own data, enabling collaboration without compromising sensitive information.
Our experience in these projects shows that the material passport is not only a documentation tool or a response to regulatory obligations. It is a digital infrastructure that connects materials, products, waste, and organisations within the same information ecosystem.
When digital passports are integrated with interoperable connectors and data spaces, traceability no longer depends on isolated documents; it becomes part of a verifiable information network. This opens the door to stronger circular economy models, where materials can remain identified, recover value, and re-enter new production cycles with greater confidence.
Ultimately, the practical applications of the passaport de materials show that its true potential lies in connecting data, actors, and decisions. At Blue Room Innovation, we work to make this traceability applicable in real environments, helping companies comply better, collaborate better, and move towards more circular construction.
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