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Date:  September 21, 2021
Time:  12pm - 1:30 pm EST
Location:  Zoom (Code to be provided to participants upon registration)

Title - How EPDs are Changing the World of Construction

The increasing demand for low carbon concrete is poised to have a major effect on the construction industry from policy to building design, in material purchasing, and in the final ‘as built’ result. Major drivers include investors, sustainability, transparency, and environmental issues. In this changing world, environmental product declarations (EPDs) have emerged as the international standard for carbon and environmental impact measurement.  In this new world understanding and using EPDs has become a critical success factor for the industry and concrete producers in particular.  In this presentation you will learn:

• The basics of EPDs
• How EPDs are calculated
• How EPDs are being used in material selection
• EPDs increasing role in the digital economy
• How the concrete industry is leading the wood and steel industries
• How embodied carbon has become a new concrete performance metric
• How producers can better analyze data and customize mix designs to meet the growing demand for low carbon concrete

Presenter - Chris Erickson, President and CEO

Climate Earth Inc.

[email protected]

415-391-2725

Chris founded Climate Earth to help businesses innovate and compete in the emerging low carbon economy.  The company focuses on replacing manual and labor intensive approaches to life cycle assessment and EPD creation with scalable automated systems.  Today, Climate Earth's CarbonCLARITY^TM Suite and EPD Generator lead the industry with over 30,000 concrete and block EPDs generated.  

Prior to Climate Earth, Chris was VP of a Fortune 500 computer company and CEO of three successful Silicon Valley software startups. He holds a BA in Economics and an MBA from the University of California, Haas School of Business.