NRMCA recently verified a system level Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) program for 10 plants in CalPortland’s Arizona division as it continues to build on its practices to disclose environmental impacts of concrete products. The EPD was developed in consultation with and based on a software tool by Athena Sustainable Materials Institute. The software tool integrates LCA impacts with mix design criteria to generate EPDs when desired. The software, underlying life cycle data for each plant and EPD were reviewed and verified by Sustainable Solutions Corporation, a verifier in NRMCA’s EPD program.
Public access to the EPD is available on the NRMCA EPD website and is listed as NRMCAEPD: 20045 CalPortland Company. This directory of EPDs reports the impacts of ready mixed concrete from 10 plants in Arizona.
The trend in reporting environmental, social and governance practices is growing and, with environmental impact criteria being specified in green building construction documents and proposed in state and local legislation, procurement decisions are expanding beyond price and performance. To date, the North American ready mixed concrete industry, including material suppliers, have invested into 85 verified EPDs with more than 35,000 products/mixes, and is the leading material industry that reports environmental impacts.
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.
National Ready Mixed Concrete Association