As a leading Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) Program Operator for the concrete industry, NRMCA recently verified another EPD, this one by Lehigh Cement. The EPD reports the impacts for two different cement products produced at the company's Redding, CA, plant. Verified cement products include Type I/II and Type II/V.
The trend in reporting company and product environmental, social and governance practices is growing and, with environmental impact criteria being discovered in green building construction documents and specifications, procurement decisions are leaning beyond price and performance. When raw material suppliers demonstrate a lower embodied carbon for their customers they can provide them increasing business opportunities.
Lehigh’s EPD was developed by Climate Earth and independently reviewed by Industrial Ecology Consultants. Collectively, Lehigh Cement and Lehigh Hanson Ready Mix have verified EPDs for the following facilities:
To date, the North American ready mixed concrete industry, including material suppliers, have invested into more than 80 verified EPDs with more than 35,000 products/mixes and is the leading material industry that reports environmental impacts. NRMCA-verified EPDs can be found here.
Integral to 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 support, training, sustainability strategy planning or program development, please reach out to NRMCA's James Bogdan at jbogdan@nrmca.org or 412-420-4138.
National Ready Mixed Concrete Association