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Allowing Contractors to Create EPDs for Their Concrete Mix Designs
A new partnership between GCP Applied Technologies and Athena Sustainable Materials Institute to form new environmental product declarations (EPD) program.
May 5, 2021
GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
GCP Applied Technologies has begun a partnership with Athena Sustainable Materials Institute, a nonprofit research collaborative bringing life cycle assessment to the construction sector. The new partnership leverages GCP product-specific life cycle assessment (LCA) data for concrete admixtures to develop environmental product declarations (EPD) for concrete mix designs.
“Building owners, municipalities, engineers, general contractors, and architects want to understand the environmental impact of the products they choose for their building projects,” says GCP Applied Technologies’ EPD Program Manager, Lisa Barnard, LEED AP O+M, WELL AP. “To address this need in the concrete sector, we have teamed up with Ath
Crunching the carbon cost numbers: five software tools for architects
1/8 Screenshot of Sefaira in use, exploring daylighting for an example building massing
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5/8 Testing the use of 7D BIM on a BIM model for Cartwright Pickard’s Wembley Park project
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As engineers Elliott Wood and the Institution of Structural Engineers launch their Structural Carbon Tool,
Fran Williams takes a look at it and four other popular carbon-counting tools available to the profession, plus a couple from abroad
‘We want the tool to be used by as many people as possible who are involved in designing buildings and specifying materials so that collectively we can make better carbon-based decisions to reduce the carbon being used in construction,’ said Penny Gowler, associate director at Elliott Wood.