Lunch & Learn: Low Carbon Concrete & EPDs

Why is addressing embodied carbon in concrete important? Explore currently available means and methods contractors and ready-mix producers can take to achieve the project carbon targets set by developers, architects, engineers, and policymakers to reduce the embodied carbon of concrete.  Understand the need and demand for reducing embodied carbon of concrete.Understand what low carbon concrete means for construction and how it affects plastic and hardened concrete properties.Evaluate the immediate steps that can be taken to reduce carbon footprint when specifying concrete.Understand how to quantify embodied carbon of concrete on a project and reduction strategies available in the local market through the use of Environmental Product Declarations (EPD’s).