CCE 2025 Education Schedule
Conference Sessions

Motivating Concrete Producers and Specifiers to buy into Type III EPD

Date & Time: Wednesday Feb 12, 2025 at 12:45 pm
Duration: 50 minutes
Location: Room D
Registration: $50 plus hst

Description

As highlighted at the Concrete BC 2024 Convention and AGM, Environmental Product Declarations, or EPDs, are becoming an increasingly important form of documentation for concrete producers and are fast becoming a requirement for supplying select project specifications across Canada, in addition to several municipal, provincial, or federal regulations under development.
 
EPDs act as a nutrition label for construction materials, denoting the environmental impact on a per weight or volume basis across a range of impact categories, including, most notably, Global Warming Potential (GWP) or carbon intensity. While Concrete BC has developed industry average EPD data for its members, the call for product and facility specific EPDs is growing, which requires concrete producers to undergo a thorough data gathering exercise that can take up to six months to complete.
 
To ensure concrete producers are not caught off guard by local projects that may soon require an EPD, Concrete BC is advising its members to learn more about EPDs and consider undertaking the process of developing EPDs at their facilities.

To help facilitate this, Concrete BC produced the following video to explain why EPDs are important and the information required for Producers to generate their own.

For Producers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXPcuLuJf7c&ab_channel=ConcreteBC

However, Producers are going to respond to demand, so as part of this exercise, Concrete BC has been promoting the adoption and use of Type III EPDs by Specifiers. Concrete BC has hosting a series of Lunch and Learns Seminars and Concrete BC also produced the following video to explain why EPDs are important and what information Specifiers need to know about:

For Specifiers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWYlnBQOlic&ab_channel=ConcreteBC

Presented by

Shane Mulligan, Chair, Environment & Climate Change
Shane Mulligan is the Sustainability and Technical Marketing Manager with Heidelberg Materials. He also Chairs Concrete BC’s Environment and Climate Change Committee. Shane previously worked as the Director, Technical Affairs and Stakeholder Relations with the Cement Association of Canada and as Marketing Manager, Infrastructure with Lafarge in Calgary. He holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of Calgary.
Jason Saunderson
Jason Saunderson, Executive Director, Concrete BC
Jason Saunderson leads the Concrete Association of BC, the voice of the Ready Mix Concrete Industry in BC for over 62 years and represents and advocates for 59 Ready Mix and Volumetric Concrete Producers and over 90 Suppliers across the province. Jason’s career has spanned over 25 years as both a Pollster providing strategic advice to clients and as a Lobbyist advocating for Canadian business interests across 12 countries. Jason holds an M.B.A. from Queen’s University and a B.Sc., Physics from the University of British Columbia.
Sponsored by:
Concrete Association of BC

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