NRMCA West Coast Producer Member Joins Building Health Initiative

NRMCA Producer member Central Concrete Supply Co., Inc., a leader in delivering low-carbon concrete to the San Francisco Bay Area, has joined the Building Health initiative as a Founding Partner. The Initiative is a coalition of commercial building owners and tenants; architects, engineers and builders; building product manufacturers; legal professionals; labor and healthcare professionals and institutions established to promote human health through green building. Other founding members of the Building Health Initiative are Adobe, CalPERS, Genentech, Google, Kaiser Permanente, salesforce.com, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). They have committed to elevating green building as a public health benefit and pledged to educate clients and peers about health impacts of the built environment and developing Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs).

Central Concrete, a business unit of U.S. Concrete, Inc., has continued to lead the green building field and has benefited by being a trailblazer. It is a founding member of the Carbon Leadership Forum that developed the Concrete Product Category Rule (PCR) and was the first ready mixed concrete supplier in the U.S. to offer Concrete EPDs and the first to receive external verification of the EPDs in accordance with ISO 14025 and ISO 21930.

HPDs, EPDs and responsible sourcing practices are new protocols in the newly launched LEED v4 (see above E-NEWS item). NRMCA will offer a Webinar to members with an updated "Concrete’s Role in Sustainable Development" online course on December 9-12 that will feature LEED v4. Subjects covered will include Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), Responsible Sourcing, LCA and Health Product Declarations (HPDs).