Bridgewater Ready Mix is the first concrete producer in Nova Scotia to offer plant-specific third- party verified Environmental Product Descriptions
Bridgewater, N.S. – Bridgewater Ready Mix announced it would publish instant on-demand Type III Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for its commercial and residential concrete mix designs making it the only concrete producer in the province to do so. This is an important step in the company’s effort to reduce its environmental impact and to achieve the industry action plan of net zero emissions.
An EPD is a standardized document that details a product’s or material’s environmental impact and its contents. Companies use EPDs to increase transparency and to show the Global Warming Potential (GWP), also known as the carbon footprint, of their construction material or manufacturing product.
Bridgewater Ready Mix developed Type III EPDs for their mix designs in partnership with Climate Earth and Master Builders Solutions, based on the principles and procedures published by the International Standards Organization, [ISO] in ISO 14025. The standard requires Bridgewater Ready Mix to make publicly available detailed information on the life cycle environmental impact of its concrete from cradle-to-gate, covering A1–A3 life cycle stages.
“As a ready-mix company we must always put performance first,” said Joel Westin, President of Bridgewater Ready Mix. “There can never be any doubt that our products will deliver the performance our customers have come to depend on. Having EPDs specific to our plant will be a powerful tool going forward as it will allow us to specify C02 per cubic meter of concrete and measure the progress of our decarbonization efforts versus our 2020 baseline.”
The goal for Bridgewater Ready Mix is to give customers, planners, architects, engineers and other interested parties a tool they can use to calculate embodied carbon and to make informed choices on lower carbon concrete alternatives to meet design requirements. Bridgewater Ready Mix will use standardized third-party verified EPDs to ensure its reporting is accurate, trustworthy and compliant with ISO 14025 and national regulations.
Bridgewater Ready Mix is working on a regional case study for inclusion in the Canadian Ready Mixed Concrete Association’s (CRMCA) Guideline for Specifying Low Carbon Ready Mixed Concrete in Canada. The EPD generator created by Climate Earth will be key to developing low-carbon concrete mix designs to be used in the project and to document avoided embodied carbon versus the company’s 2020 baseline as well as the industrywide EPDs of the Atlantic Concrete Association.
About: Bridgewater Ready Mix has been providing quality concrete solutions for over 35 years and is a member of the Atlantic Concrete Association. Bridgwater Ready Mix has committed to Canada’s cement and concrete industry action plan to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 offering residential and commercial concrete solutions from Port Mouton to St. Margarets Bay from its base in Bridgewater Industrial Park.
To learn more, visit: bridgewaterreadymix.ca
For more information, please contact:
Janet E Silver Phone: 613-617-9101 Email: janetesilver_comms@outlook.com
