Sources: Building Transparency, Seattle; CP staff The nonprofit organization behind the environmental product declaration data- and document-laden Embodied Carbon Calculator (EC3), has published a guide preparing manufacturers, producers and suppliers for the Buy Clean policies surfacing at federal, state and local agency levels. In Manufacturer’s Guide to Embodied Carbon, Building Transparency provides building carbon emissions accounting basics and steps for…
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EPA invites comments on low carbon construction materials, product labeling
Sources: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; CP staff The Environmental Protection Agency has opened to public comment a draft approach for implementing an Inflation Reduction Act-funded Label Program for Low Embodied Carbon Construction Materials. The $100 million undertaking will support the White House Buy Clean Initiative, applicable to Departments of Defense and Transportation and General Services Administration procurement, by helping define…
Read MoreTwo structures down, two to go for PCA, CTLGroup campus demolition contractor
Source: CP staff The former Portland Cement Association and CTLGroup campus along Old Orchard Road in Skokie, Ill. is giving way to a residential and commercial development befitting valuable acreage just north of Chicago and in close proximity to Interstate 94. Demolition commenced in late 2023 on four buildings that for decades supported one of the world’s principal cement and…
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