Reduced Emissions in Construction Materials

EPA Best Practices for Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling Construction and Demolition Materials: A webpage with guidance on the use of salvaged and reused construction materials. 

EPD Basics: A Manufacturer’s Guide to How and Why to Develop an EPD (pdf) This EPA publication provides an overview of EPDs and their importance to embodied carbon of construction materials. 

GSA Facilities Standard P100: An overview of the General Services Administration‘s standard establishing mandatory design and construction  

Tools for Measuring Embodied Carbon: From the Carbon Leadership Forum, a webpage with an overview of available tools for architects, engineers, and consultants to evaluate the environmental impacts of buildings and building materials using life cycle assessment. 

DOT-FHWA LCA Pave: A tool developed by DOT’s FHWA that can be used to assess environmental impacts of pavement material and design decisions. 

Map of Manufacturers with EPDs: An interactive map with locations of manufacturing plants that provide EPDs, color-coded by product category, and links to the EC3 tool to view EPDs and plug them into a whole-building embodied carbon model. 

ACLCA PCR repository: An online index of PCRs, searchable by keyword, geography, standard conformance, and status, with option to view PDF of individual PCRs. 

Federal LCA Commons: A collection of data repositories for use in life cycle assessment to advance Federal LCA data, research, and information systems; improve consistency in LCA methods; and enhance public and agency access to Federal LCA data in a standardized searchable format.