NRMCA Verifies Portable Plant EPD for Maryland Concrete Producer
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NRMCA recently verified a system-level Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) program for Maryland-based Producer member Schuster Concrete. The EPD is for a portable batch plant operating in Washington, DC, and is the first EPD for a portable plant produced under the newly-published Product Category Rule (PCR) for Concrete v2.2 (including deviation) by NSF International, the first PCR standard to include portable plants. The new PCR can be downloaded from the NSF PCR webpage.
The EPD was developed in consultation with Climate Earth and based on its ClimateCLARITY software tool. The tool integrates LCA impacts within batch operating software to generate EPDs when desired. The software tool was reviewed and verified by Industrial Ecology Consultants. The underlying life cycle data for the plant and EPD were reviewed and verified by Ecoform, a verifier in NRMCA’s EPD program. Public access to the EPD is available on the NRMCA EPD webpage and is listed as NRMCA EPD: 20083 Schuster Concrete. This EPD reports the impacts for ready mixed concrete from one portable plant operating in Washington, DC.
For more information, contact Matthew Lemay at mlemay@nrmca.org.
