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EPD Impact Categories, Summarized

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Two pans on a balance scale, one with grey virgin pellets and a heavy carbon cloud overhead, the other with colorful recycled pellets and a lighter cloud, showing the GWP drop by feedstock choice.
EPD Impact Categories, Summarized

Raise recycled plastics, drop GWP, no reformulation

If your product contains plastics, you can often cut cradle‑to‑gate GWP fast by increasing recycled content without touc...

Toby Urff5 min read9 Readers/Week
Four stacked beakers labeled fossil, biogenic, land use change, and total, each filling to different levels to show how the same product’s GWP splits across subcategories.
EPD Impact Categories, Summarized

Environmental impact categories for EPDs, explained

GWP gets the headlines, but specifiers are reading the whole impact table now. If you make construction products, knowin...

Eric Hansen5 min read
A four‑pane visual that shows one product icon with carbon arrows flowing into four labeled boxes: fossil, biogenic, land‑use change, and total, like a nutrition label.
EPD Impact Categories, Summarized

EPD impact categories explained, without the jargon

If specifiers scan only one thing in your EPD, it is the impact table. Those numbers decide whether your product clears ...

Eric Hansen5 min read
A split-screen gauge cluster showing each category as a speedometer, some in green, others approaching red, to visualise trade-offs.
EPD Impact Categories, Summarized

EPD Impact Categories in Plain English

EPDs live or die by a handful of impact categories. Understand what each metric actually measures and you can steer prod...

Walker Ryan5 min read
A control lever labeled with increasing cullet percentages that lowers a gauge showing GWP, while a separate performance gauge stays steady.
EPD Impact Categories, Summarized

Boost Recycled Float Glass, Lower GWP Fast

Your EPD’s GWP is a hair too high and reformulation feels risky. Good news. Raising cullet share in float glass can drop...

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Generate an illustration for an article following this concept: Beyond Carbon: What EPDs Miss On Ecosystem Health EPDs win specs, but architects working from the Materials Pledge scan for a wider pattern: air, water, soil, habitat, sourcing, and restorative practices. Show that story and you move from compliant to compelling. This post maps the gap EPDs cannot fill on their own and gives manufacturers a practical disclosure checklist that shortens due‑diligence back‑and‑forth and builds trust faster with design teams. Ensure that you use no text, as this illustration will be used on international translations of the article.. Use an illustrative style (e.g. isometic) and don't generate in a photorealistic style.
EPD Impact Categories, Summarized

Beyond Carbon: What EPDs Miss On Ecosystem Health

EPDs win specs, but architects working from the Materials Pledge scan for a wider pattern: air, water, soil, habitat, so...

Henry Ryan5 min read
Generate an illustration for an article following this concept: Fenceline communities and material choices Material health is not only an indoor air or carbon story. It is also a neighbor story. Extraction, processing, and assembly can burden the people living beside plants, quarries, refineries, and ports. Specifiers are asking for proof that impacts are reduced at the source, not shifted offsite. Manufacturers who document this well earn trust, reduce bid friction, and stay on shortlists when projects must show equity and ecosystem care alongside performance. Ensure that you use no text, as this illustration will be used on international translations of the article.. Use an illustrative style (e.g. isometic) and don't generate in a photorealistic style.
EPD Impact Categories, Summarized

Fenceline communities and material choices

Material health is not only an indoor air or carbon story. It is also a neighbor story. Extraction, processing, and asse...

Henry Ryan5 min read
Generate an illustration for an article following this concept: EF 3.x GWP splits, explained for real work EPDs that follow EF 3.x and EN 15804+A2 now show climate change in several rows, not one. That split is useful, yet it often triggers head‑scratching reviews and false “typo” alarms. Here is how the lines fit together and which number belongs in dashboards, bids, and sustainability reports. Ensure that you use no text, as this illustration will be used on international translations of the article.. Use an illustrative style (e.g. isometic) and don't generate in a photorealistic style.
EPD Impact Categories, Summarized

EF 3.x GWP splits, explained for real work

EPDs that follow EF 3.x and EN 15804+A2 now show climate change in several rows, not one. That split is useful, yet it o...

Walker Ryan5 min read
Generate an illustration for an article following this concept: Beyond Carbon: Midpoints, Endpoints, Single Scores Carbon steals the spotlight, but specifiers increasingly ask about acidification, smog, water use, and resource depletion. If your EPD only reports GWP, you leave answers, and revenue, on the table. Here is the quick map through midpoint and endpoint indicators, plus how to treat single‑score metrics without tripping over comparability. Ensure that you use no text, as this illustration will be used on international translations of the article.. Use an illustrative style (e.g. isometic) and don't generate in a photorealistic style.
EPD Impact Categories, Summarized

Beyond Carbon: Midpoints, Endpoints, Single Scores

Carbon steals the spotlight, but specifiers increasingly ask about acidification, smog, water use, and resource depletio...

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Generate an illustration for an article following this concept: TRACI 2.2, the North American impact yardstick Spec writers keep asking for TRACI numbers. Product teams keep asking what they mean. Here is the plain‑spoken guide to what TRACI 2.2 measures, why it shows up in EPDs, and how to make sure your next declaration is clean, comparable, and ready for LEED v5 reviews without late‑night recalcs. Ensure that you use no text, as this illustration will be used on international translations of the article.. Use an illustrative style (e.g. isometic) and don't generate in a photorealistic style.
EPD Impact Categories, Summarized

TRACI 2.2, the North American impact yardstick

Spec writers keep asking for TRACI numbers. Product teams keep asking what they mean. Here is the plain‑spoken guide to ...

Toby Urff5 min read
Generate an illustration for an article following this concept: TRACI 2.1 for Manufacturers TRACI 2.1 sounds like alphabet soup until a spec, an EPD reviewer, or a LEED submission asks for it. This is the impact method most U.S. product EPDs lean on. Know what it measures, how versions differ, and which levers on your line actually move the scores that buyers and project teams watch. Ensure that you use no text, as this illustration will be used on international translations of the article.. Use an illustrative style (e.g. isometic) and don't generate in a photorealistic style.
EPD Impact Categories, Summarized

TRACI 2.1 for Manufacturers

TRACI 2.1 sounds like alphabet soup until a spec, an EPD reviewer, or a LEED submission asks for it. This is the impact ...

Eric Hansen5 min read