Lionel Lemay, NRMCA senior vice president, sustainability, presented a keynote speech at the Mexican Ready Mixed Concrete Association (AMIC) national meeting in Cancun last week. Lemay presented Concrete as a Sustainable Material with a focus on concrete’s sustainable attributes, how green building criteria in LEED are addressed, the challenges facing the industry in order to meet the new Materials and Resources credits requiring environmental product declarations (EPDs) and responsible sourcing and material ingredient disclosure. He discussed NRMCA programs such as its EPD program and its responsible sourcing program called Sustainable Concrete Plant Certification in order to help producer meet these new challenges.