As a leading program operator for the concrete industry, NRMCA recently verified Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for CalPortland.
The EPD covers 50 mix designs from each of CalPortland’s Front Avenue, Hillsboro and West Vancouver, Washington plants in the Portland, OR, area.
The EPD was created by CalPortland utilizing The Cement Sustainability Initiative’s Environmental Product Declaration Tool.
The CSI EPD Tool was developed to facilitate the generation of sector-specific EPDs for cement and concrete. The cloud-based tool was designed to be easy to use, facilitate the overall process and reduce the costs of preparing environmental impact information from cement and concrete production. CalPortland’s EPD was verified by the Athena Sustainable Materials Institute.
To date, the ready mixed concrete industry, including material suppliers, have 33 verified EPDs with a total of 9,390 products, by far the largest total of any building product category.
As part of the Build with Strength campaign, NRMCA promotes Strength Through Transparency for member and industry competitiveness in the green building marketplace and the trends toward product and company transparency.
For more information, contact James Bogdan at jbogdan@nrmca.org or 412-420-4138.
Original Source: NRMCA This Week in the Ready Mixed Concrete Industry for May 7, 2018
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