Oldcastle Infrastructure: products and EPD coverage snapshot
Oldcastle Infrastructure is everywhere pipes flow and vaults sit, from storm drains to telecom streetscapes. Buyers love the breadth. Specifiers increasingly ask for Environmental Product Declarations. Here’s where their catalog shines on EPDs, where it likely doesn’t yet, and how that could nudge wins on projects that rank carbon alongside cost.
What Oldcastle Infrastructure makes
Oldcastle Infrastructure is a multi‑category manufacturer in water, communications, transportation, and energy. The portfolio spans reinforced concrete pipe and box culverts, manholes, utility vaults, precast basins and structures, enclosure systems and handholes, modular buildings, and select stormwater treatment units. Across regions and options, that’s easily in the hundreds of SKUs.
See their sustainability positioning here: Safety & Sustainability.
EPD footprint today
Publicly available EPDs cover core precast categories. We see product‑specific declarations for concrete pipe and box culverts, plus wetcast mix EPDs that teams often apply to manholes, vaults and lids. Many of these are issued through established program operators and remain valid well into the late 2020s.
Where coverage is thinner is in specialty systems. Several stormwater treatment devices, polymer or composite enclosures, and recently added PVC conduit or pressure pipe lines do not consistently show product‑specific EPDs on public registries. Industry‑average options exist for precast elements regionally via PCI’s 2025 regionalized EPDs, which help with credit eligibility but do not position a product as strongly as a plant‑ or product‑specific declaration (PCI, 2025). Plastic pipe has also moved, with 22 new industry EPDs published by the Plastic Pipe and Fittings Association in December 2025, a useful interim reference for DWV and potable lines (PPFA, 2025).
Why this mix matters for getting specified
On projects tracking embodied‑carbon targets or pursuing LEED v5 points, product‑specific EPDs reduce friction during submittals and keep estimators from swapping in a rival that clears documentation with fewer questions. Without an EPD, teams must model with conservative defaults, which can cost a spec spot even when performance and price are solid. An EPD often pays for itself with a single mid‑size win.
Likely best sellers and EPD gaps to watch
Concrete pipe and box culverts are high‑velocity items and are largely covered. Revisit manholes, utility vault families, and standard precast basins if their coverage relies only on a generic wetcast mix. Stormwater treatment units are frequent spec drivers in urban work yet are often validated by performance approvals rather than EPDs, so getting even a small set of product‑specific declarations here can move the needle quickly. If PVC conduit or pressure pipe is part of a bid package, an EPD for representative diameters helps keep the whole package EPD‑ready.
Who they run into on bids
Category by category, Oldcastle Infrastructure most often faces Rinker Materials and other ACPA member producers for concrete pipe and culverts, Jensen Precast or Tindall for utility structures, and Contech Engineered Solutions or StormTrap on detention and treatment systems. In plastic pipe, Advanced Drainage Systems and JM Eagle are common alternatives. Availability by region and owner standards will shift this lineup, but these are the recurring names.
Commercial playbook for stronger coverage
Start where the quote volume lives. Prioritize product‑specific EPDs for manholes and utility vaults built from standard wetcast recipes, then add one or two stormwater treatment units with stable designs. For plastic pipe, consider aligning a product‑specific EPD to complement the new industry‑average set so a full site package remains EPD‑eligible across concrete and PVC lines (PPFA, 2025). Keep the PCR choice consistent with peers to avoid apples‑to‑oranges comparisons.
Operations tips that speed EPDs up
A PCR is the rulebook of Monopoly. Ignore it and the game falls apart. Lock that early, then pull one clean reference year of utility, materials, and waste data from plants that run the highest‑volume SKUs. Centralize mix designs and reinforcing schedules so one declaration can cleanly cover multiple sizes by functional unit. Publish with the operator your customers already know. We favor ruthless data collection so engineers are not stuck chasing meters and invoices. Small typo here becuase we are human.
The upshot
Oldcastle Infrastructure is well covered where it already sells the most concrete, and that keeps bids moving. Extending product‑specific EPDs to manholes, vaults, and a few stormwater units would round out the catalog and reduce substitution risk. The prize is simple. Faster approvals, fewer documentation detours, and a steadier hit rate when carbon is on the scorecard.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does an industry-average EPD help Oldcastle Infrastructure on LEED v5 projects?
It can count toward disclosure credits and owner preferences, but product‑specific EPDs usually carry more weight in procurement and avoid conservative defaults in carbon accounting. PCI issued new regionalized industry EPDs in 2025 that can serve as a stopgap (PCI, 2025).
Which Oldcastle Infrastructure products most benefit from a product-specific EPD next?
Standard manholes, utility vault families, and frequently specified stormwater treatment units. These appear often in submittal packages and are prone to substitution when documentation is missing.
Do PVC pipe lines have EPD coverage today?
Industry EPDs for plastic pipe and fittings were released in December 2025 by PPFA, which helps with credits. Product‑specific PVC EPDs are the stronger play for specs that prefer plant‑level data (PPFA, 2025).
About the Author
Walker Ryan is a climate-tech entrepreneur focused on driving industrial decarbonization through better data. As the founder and CEO of Parq, he helps manufacturers generate high-quality, third-party–verified carbon disclosures at scale—accelerating a traditionally slow and expensive process. Before starting Parq, Walker led over $200 million in sustainability-focused investments as VP of Strategy & Growth at ReStream Solutions, following earlier experience in investment banking at Deutsche Bank. He brings a rare mix of capital markets expertise and hands-on sustainability knowledge to tackling the infrastructure of industrial emissions.
