Slag Cement Association Announces Updated Life Cycle Assessment Calculator
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The Slag Cement Association (SCA) has produced version 3.0 of its Life Cycle Assessment Calculator for slag cement; it is now available on the SCA website. The SCA commissioned the Athena Institute to produce its Ready Mixed Concrete Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Calculator for Slag Cement - Version 3.0 to show the environmental impacts of using slag cement in ready mixed concrete. The LCA calculator allows users to enter custom concrete mixes and then substitute varying amounts of slag cement through a simple dashboard interface. By selecting a preset mix or entering the details of a custom mix, the calculator allows users to increase or decrease the percentage of slag cement and calculate LCA results in real time. The tool also allows users to compare custom mixes against region-specific industry average mixes and substitute these mixes into a generic whole building to calculate cumulative whole-building results. The calculator can be accessed on the SCA website.
The growing need to reduce the carbon impact of concrete led the SCA to create an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for slag cement. The recently updated EPD provides quantifiable environmental data on the materials, transportation and processing impacts in the production of slag cement. Click here to view the full EPD.
For more information, contact Janice Clines at 248-848-1120 or Janice.Clines@slagcement.org.
