EPD Guide

by Parq

Win That Spec: Industry Plays

6 Articles
•Complete guide and resources

What architects, engineers, and GCs actually evaluate for common industries, and how to position your product to their criteria.

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A photo fo a data center being built with the Google logo on top.

How To Land In Google’s Next Data Center Spec in 2026

We dissected Google’s latest sustainability report to show how it will reshape procurement of...

Eric Hansen
5 min read
11/19/2025
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Data Center Embodied Carbon Benchmarks Suppliers Should Hit

Hyperscalers are moving from “tell me” to “show me.” If you supply concrete, steel, glass, or...

Walker Ryan
5 min read
11/25/2025
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Illustration of a hyperscale data center showing several connected buildings, server racks, and cooling systems, with subtle icons of trucks, cranes, and factories to represent the materials supply chain. The design uses cool blues and greys with green accents to suggest technology and sustainability, and includes minimal or no text for easy translation.

Datacenter Gold Rush: Secure Specs with EPDs Now

Hyperscaler campuses worth tens of billions are on the drawing board right now. By the time ground...

Eric Hansen
5 min read
11/13/2025
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A layered cutaway of a data center corner with concrete slab, reinforcing steel, curtain wall glass, and roof insulation, each layer tagged with a small EPD card icon and a GWP value badge.

Win Hyperscalers: The Environmental Data Playbook

Hyperscalers buy at breathtaking scale and move fast. They ask for clean, comparable environmental...

Toby Urff
5 min read
11/24/2025
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A funnel diagram where raw EPD PDFs enter the top and come out as concise bullet points, signifying data distillation for architects.

Turn EPD Scores into Spec-Winning Stories

An architect’s inbox is a battlefield: twenty tabs of ‘sustainable’ claims, one seat on the...

John Johnson
5 min read
10/27/2025
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Generate an illustration for an article following this concept: How Specifiers Use EPDs to Choose Materials When an EPD lands in a submittal, architects and engineers give it a brisk, surgical read. If the numbers are clear, current, and comparable, the product stays in the running. If not, it gets sidelined and price alone will not save it. 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.

How specifiers actually use EPDs to choose

Architects and engineers want to hit targets without friction. On sustainability‑driven jobs the...

John Johnson
5 min read
1/17/2026
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