NRMCA Verifies Another Lehigh Cement EPD

As a leading Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) Program Operator for the concrete industry, NRMCA recently verified two EPDs by Lehigh Cement. Each EPD reports the impacts of four different bulk and packaged cement products produced at the company's plant in Union Bridge, MD. Verified cement products include Type IL, I/II, III and Masonry. Lehigh Cement’s EPDs were developed by Climate Earth and independently reviewed by Industrial Ecology Consultants. Lehigh continues to expand its product offerings that have EPDs across the U.S.

The trend in reporting company and product environmental, social and governance practices is growing and, with environmental impact criteria being discovered in green building construction documents and specifications, procurement decisions are leaning beyond price and performance. Where raw material suppliers can demonstrate a lower embodied carbon their customers can provide them with increasing business opportunities in the future.

To date, the North American ready mixed concrete industry, including material suppliers, has invested into more than 85 verified EPDs with more than 38,000 products/mixes and is the leading material industry that reports environmental impacts. NRMCA-verified EPDs can be found here.

Integral to 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 support, training, sustainability strategy planning or program development, please contact James Bogdan at jbogdan@nrmca.org or 412-420-4138.