{"id":16453,"date":"2013-09-10T19:36:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T19:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=70e293a05c5f98d4054999eb507bded5"},"modified":"2013-09-10T19:36:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T19:36:32","slug":"understanding-environmental-product-declarations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/understanding-environmental-product-declarations\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Environmental Product Declarations"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sustainableindustries.com\/sites\/sustainableindustries.com\/files\/imagecache\/master-image\/images_for_cdn\/central_concrete_logo_box.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"185\">\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>This summer, Sustainable Industries launched a three-part series on Environmental Product Declarations, or&nbsp;EPDs &ndash; specifically looking at what&#8217;s new, what&#8217;s now, and what&#8217;s next.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The first article in the series, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainableindustries.com\/articles\/2013\/07\/abcs-epds\">ABCs of EPDs<\/a>&#8221; by Climate Earth co-founder Chris Erickson, provided readers with must-know information on EPDs &#8212; what they are, how they are produced, and why they are important.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>In this second article of the series, we provide a case study that gives readers an inside look at how Central Concrete worked with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climateearth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Climate Earth<\/a> to develop its EPDs. Not only is Central Concrete the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainableindustries.com\/resources\/central-concrete-announces-first-environmental-product-declarations-epds-concrete-mixes-us\">first concrete company in North America to issue verified EPDs<\/a>, it is the first company in the nation to produce integrated EPDs available online, in real time at the individual product&nbsp;level.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>What does that look like? Simply click on the download button to read more.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12111,10010,5285,12112,7301,12113,3294,2941],"class_list":["post-16453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-central-concrete","tag-climate-earth","tag-environmental-product-declarations","tag-environmental-product-labeling","tag-epds","tag-product-performance-metrics","tag-sustainable-buildings","tag-white-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}