... its industry average or industry-wide environmental product declaration (IW-EPD). The document functions as a national proxy for the bulk of concrete in residential, commercial and public construction, ...
... database of digitized Environmental Product Declarations (EPD). It allows architects, engineers, owners, contractors, building material suppliers and policy makers to easily evaluate and reduce embodied ...
... nearly two years of stakeholder-proposed updates to a charter 2013 version. The PCR is a set of industry rules to support development of environmental product declarations (EPD) for ready mixed and manufactured ...
... apply Life Cycle Assessment criteria or request EPD submittals, often in conjunction with LEED v4 green building certification.
The Industry Wide-EPD version 3 will update standard ...
... confront when project owners or design teams apply Life Cycle Assessment criteria or request EPD submittals, often in conjunction with LEED v4 green building certification.
The 2016 IW-EPD, or version ...
... Category Rule (PCR), issued in 2013 to support Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) covering concrete mix designs. Over the past 18 months, the association has collaborated with the University of Washington-hosted ...
... He was part of the manufacturer’s first class of Black Belts in Six Sigma—the business improvement tool that management credits with saving the company and customers billions since 2000.
EPD NOW is a ...
... with and without slag cement. Calculations are based on the industry-average Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for ready mixed concrete that incorporates industry-average EPDs for slag cement and ...
... (LCA) reflecting the environmental impact of mixtures with and without slag cement. Calculations are based on the industry-average Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for ready mixed concrete that ...
Martin Marietta Materials is the first producer member to use National Ready Mixed Concrete Association’s new system level Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) verification program, oriented to transparency ...
The second version of the NRMCA Industry-Wide (IW) Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) and Benchmark (Industry Average) Report discloses production impacts of 72 concrete mixes with 2,500–8,000 psi ...
... It serves as an expert resource for creating product category rules (PCR), reviewing life cycle assessment reports (LCA), and verifying and publishing environmental product declarations (EPD).
“As ...
... Driver.”
Separately, NRMCA Senior Director, Sustainability Initiatives, James Bogdan presented “Progress of EPD Development within the Concrete Industry” at the 16th Annual Life Cycle Assessment Conference ...
... the PCR and EPD creation process is essential to lowering costs and scaling up the use of products that reduce environmental impact,” says thinkstep Director of Product Sustainability Nuno da Silva.
The ...
... (EPD) verification program, oriented to transparency credits in LEED v4 and other green building standards. The program meets strict international standards, but streamlines EPD verification: Rather than ...
Sources: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Silver Spring, Md.; CP staff
The second version of the NRMCA Industry-Wide (IW) Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) and Benchmark (Industry Average) ...
... member Emily Lorenz, who consulted on life cycle assessments (LCA) and environmental product declarations (EPD) prior to her appointment earlier this year as Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute sustainability ...
Looking beyond rationalized cement capacity with integrated concrete and aggregate production assets, LafargeHolcim Ltd. aims to make its mark in the global construction supply chain as part of a new sustainability ...
Looking beyond rationalized cement capacity with integrated concrete and aggregate production assets, LafargeHolcim Ltd. aims to make its mark in the global construction supply chain as part of a new sustainability ...