The Carbon Working Group
continues our series of blog posts on topics from SEI Sustainability
Committee’s newly-released technical report, Building
Structure and Global Climate.
As we write this post about the
carbon footprint of masonry materials, we see more Environmental Product
Declarations use in construction. Environmental Product Declarations, or
EPDs, are documents that quantify a product's embodied carbon footprint and
other environmental impacts, and are used to achieve LEEDv4...

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