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It’s All in the Details: Granular, Site-Specific EPDs are Essential to Reducing Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment

Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) transparently communicate the environmental impact of any product or material over its lifetime. Like a ...
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The Urgent Need for Retrofitting in the U.S.: Reducing CO2 Emissions from the Built Environment

Constructing new buildings allows general contractors and architects to incorporate sustainable elements and practices. However, it can take between ...
Water
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Water in Manufacturing

It’s likely that every manufactured product uses water during some part of the production process, whether that’s for creating the product, input ...
Carbon
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What is an EPD?

An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is exactly what it sounds like. It is the environmental impact that a product can have on the environment ...
Energy
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On-site vs. Off-site Renewables

First, let’s define each. On-site renewables, aka direct, are “behind the meter” systems at a specific location, providing energy on-demand or via ...
Carbon
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How to Read an EPD

EPDs don’t contain any proprietary information that manufacturers need to keep within their organization but do disclose the important environmental ...
Carbon
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Net Zero Buildings: The Role of Insulated Metal Panels

When it comes to buildings, there are two types of carbon emissions: operational carbon and embodied carbon. Operational carbon refers to emissions ...
Circularity
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Innovation with Insulated Panel Production Waste

Around 95% of the value of construction materials is lost as buildings decay into obsolescence and then demolition. This is largely due to the ‘take, ...
Kingspan
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Making Sustainability Sustainable in Manufacturing

By Brent Trenga, Director of Sustainability for Kingspan Insulated Metal Panels North America
Carbon
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Carbon Capture Gaining Momentum as One Solution for Fighting Climate Change

Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), a process that captures carbon dioxide (CO2) formed during power generation and industrial processes, ...
Carbon
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Where to Use an EPD

Environmental product declarations (EPD) are transparency tools that are useful for a multitude of professionals aiming to understand the ...
Energy
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What are Net Zero Buildings and Why are They Important?

Net zero buildings are highly efficient structures that produce as much energy as they use on an annual basis. These buildings incorporate renewable ...
Circularity
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What is Circularity?

Circular building product practices refer to the adoption of strategies and principles that promote the circular economy within the construction ...
Circularity
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Breaking Down Today’s Waste Streams

Individuals, households, and industries all produce waste on a daily basis. How we manage these waste streams directly influences their impacts – to ...
Water
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Defining Measures of Water Use

Water withdrawal – taking water from groundwater (fresh water stored within the soil’s particles and rocks) or surface-water sources (streams, ...
Carbon
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What is Embodied Carbon?

All building materials go through a life cycle, from raw material extraction to end-of-life disposal. Throughout each phase along this journey, ...
Kingspan
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Highlights From Our Second Annual Planet Passionate Report

We recently published our second annual Planet Passionate report which reviews the second year of progress in this 10-year sustainability program. ...
Circularity
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Waste Diversion Commitments

Building Product Manufacturer Commitments Building product manufacturer commitments refer to the initiatives and targets set by manufacturers to ...
Energy
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Building’s Operational Energy

Operational energy refers to the energy required to operate and maintain a building on a day-to-day basis, including electricity, heating/cooling, ...
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Continuing Innovation and Commitment to Decarbonize Operations

In June 2021 we voluntarily updated our science-based targets to bring them in line with 1.5oC future.
Carbon
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The Role of Steel in the Sustainability of Insulated Metal Panels

When it comes to reducing carbon emissions in the manufacture of insulated metal panels (IMPs), steel plays a critical role. That’s because steel is ...
Water
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Water in Operations

To keep buildings, their surroundings, and the people inside them functioning, water is essential. Like manufacturing facilities, a significant ...
Energy
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Net Zero

Net zero has become a buzz word in sustainability circles, but what exactly does it mean? To put it simply, net zero refers to a state in which there ...
Energy
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Energy Use Explained

Energy originates from a variety of sources, serves a multitude of purposes, and can be both consumed and produced. It can also be converted from one ...
Circularity
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How Else Do Organizations Deal with Waste?

Waste diversion refers to the practice of reducing, reusing, and recycling waste materials instead of sending them to landfills or incinerators. For ...
Kingspan
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Green Business Initiatives

Last year, CO2 in the atmosphere reached record levels at 417 parts per million – levels not experienced by the atmosphere in several million years. ...