Description:
Join PCI’s Sustainability team for an essential member-exclusive webinar exploring the newly released 2025 Regionalized Industry Average Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). This 45-minute session provides clear, accessible guidance for understanding how EPDs support transparency, meet evolving market demands, and elevate precast concrete’s role in sustainable construction.
Whether you're new to sustainability concepts or looking to deepen your understanding of how to apply EPDs in project work, this webinar will walk you through the why, what, and how—with a live Q&A to answer your questions.
Learning Objectives:
By attending this webinar, PCI members will be able to:
- Define the purpose and components of an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), including how it relates to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Category Rules (PCRs).
- Differentiate between product-specific and industry-wide EPDs and understand the strategic role of each in project and procurement contexts.
- Describe the key updates in the 2025 regional EPDs, including regionalization, expanded data coverage, and methodology.
- Interpret the structure and metrics of a sample regional EPD, including Global Warming Potential (GWP) and life cycle stage data (A1–A3).
- Apply the EPDs in real-world scenarios, such as LEED submittals, Buy Clean compliance, internal benchmarking, and stakeholder engagement.
Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Credit: 1 PDH; pending for 1 AIA credit
Presenter: Thomas Ketron, Director of Sustainability at PCI
Registering: You must sign in to your PCI account and submit your order to receive the order confirmation and link to the webinar.
Disclaimer: By submitting your event registration, you submit your information to the webinar organizer, who will use it to communicate with you regarding this event and their other services. To receive PDH and/or AIA credit, you must attend this webinar for at least 35 minutes. Attending the webinar for less than 35 minutes will result in no PDH and/or AIA credit.