NRMCA recently verified a system-level Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for Tennessee-based ready mix producer Smyrna Ready Mix. The EPD was developed in consultation with Climate Earth and based on its CarbonCLARITY software tool which integrates life cycle analyis impacts within batch operating software to generate EPDs when desired. The software tool was verified by Industrial Ecology Consultants with the underlying life cycle data for the plant and EPD reviewed by Ecoform, a verifier in NRMCA’s EPD program.
Public access to the EPD is available on the NRMCA EPD webpage as NRMCA EPD: 20092 Smyrna Ready Mix. This EPD reports the impacts for ready mixed concrete from Smyrna Ready Mix's plant in Irving, TX. Also available in the same directory are seven additional plants the company has in New York, developed in partnership with Climate Earth previous to this publication.
For more information on the EPD verification program, contact Matthew Lemay at mlemay@nrmca.org.
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