Why are EPDs so Important...Yet Difficult to Understand?

Why are EPDs so Important...Yet Difficult to Understand?

14 Nov 2024|Greenbuild 2024
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Josh JacobsJosh JacobsSustainability Director at WAP Sustainability

Josh is responsible for engaging and understanding the global marketplaces' sustainable rating systems, codes, purchasing policies, and standards for WAP Sustainability. In this role he helps develop and track the environmental programs that are being utilized throughout the world. As a LEED AP+ BD&C, Josh has served on over 40 sustainably focused committees, including but not limited to ASHRAE 189.1, LEED Steering Committee, USGBC’s Pilot Credit Committee, and served on the water/IEQ work group that developed the first public draft of the IgCC. He is a recurring guest lecturer at multiple universities and has spoken on sustainable building practices and purchasing on 5 continents. He works with organizations investor relations and sustainability teams to help them understand sustainable financial reporting tools such as SASB, GRI, and TCFD. Josh served as Chairman of the US Mirror Committee for ISO 20400 Sustainable Procurement, the 2015 NAHB Material/IEQ Working Group, Chair for USGBC’s Pilot Credit Committee, and Chair of the LEED Steering Committee Chair and currently serves as Vice Chair of ASHRAE 189.1.

Wes SullensWes SullensDirector, LEED at U.S. Green Building Council

Wes Sullens, LEED Fellow, is a Director at the U.S. Green Building Council where he leads Materials & Resources activities for the non-profit organization. Wes is responsible for the materials credits in the LEED Rating System and guides leadership criteria related to construction waste, product manufacturing, raw material sourcing, material transparency, circular economy, and embodied carbon. Mr. Sullens also leads USGBC’s participation in green building codes, including CALGreen and co-sponsorship of the International Green Construction Code. He has worked in the public, private and nonprofit sectors for more than 20 years on broad topics including energy efficiency, building codes, supply chain sustainability, and chemicals transparency.

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EPDs have started to become a requirement in procurement of materials at the federal, state, local, and A&D levels....so why are there still so many questions about them? This session will touch on how LEED v5 is going to utilize not only EPDs, but the data from these documents. We will discuss the potential barriers that some manufacturers have in getting these done and how once they are in the marketplace, how they build on each other for greater clarity. As these are being utilized in comparisons for procurement and product selection we will discuss the best ways to digest EPDs for non-LCA practitioners and give some rules of the road to help people make the best selections vs. just always picking the smaller number regardless of how the EPD was done, PCR or datasets used. Finally, we will help people understand where all of this EPD momentum is going with the perspectives of a leading global rating system, a leading manufacturer, and a leading global LCA team.

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