As a member of the Sustainable Pavement Program Consulting team, we have developed guidance documents for the pavement industry and state agencies how to advance sustainability in pavement design and operations. We are most proud of the publication of the FHWA Pavement Life Cycle Assessment Framework and are currently developing an LCA tool for pavement design in collaboration with UC-Davis, UIUC and APTech and a Pavement LCA Background Database Roadmap and PCR Guidance together with Michigan Tech with the Federal LCA Commons. For more about the program click here.
We have developed a two-part Product Category Rule program for the Program Operator Consortium as consultant to Sustainable Minds. The Program Operator Consortium (POC) was formed to provide more useful environmental product transparency solutions and to reduce complexity in the marketplace by: - Standardizing how LCA-based standards for reporting product environmental performance get created - Providing improved reports to help decision-makers specify materials and products - Combining efforts to improve access to and recognition of manufacturers’ product declarations
We provide full service EPD generation and publication into national databases for several ROCKWOOL, ROXUL and ROCKFON business units in North America, Norway, Germany and The Benelux and new products like REDAIR and RockZero. Work include EPD tool development to be able to issue EPDs for insulation and ceiling tile products, including annual updates from manufacturing facilities.
In support of HB 21 1303 we are part of the Implementation team to set regional Greenhouse Gas benchmarks for cement and concrete, asphalt binder and mix and steel as reported in Environmental Product Declarations (EPD). Per July 1, 2022, EPDs need to be submitted before placement on projects. Using a bid item approach, this is an example of Buy Clean Policy. Colorado DOT (CDOT) has a dedicated EPD website.