Data shows that EPDs are on the rise — and in turn, so is business credibility.
With independently verified product data, ready mix businesses are doubling down on their sustainability initiatives with readily available emissions data. As reporting regulations continue to develop in the construction world, businesses able to communicate their data at plant, product, and project levels are catching the eyes of customers.
Unfortunately, long and tedious collection and verification phases may be standing in the way.
That’s why we’re partnering with other technology providers to enable up-to-the-minute EPD deployments. This upcoming capability will be embedded within the Command Cloud platform, simplifying EPD generation and third-party verification.
What’s an EPD? We’ve got you covered in a previous blog over here.
By mastering daily production processes and investing in top-tier customer service, ready mix businesses maintain their hard-earned business reputations.
But if you consider a more irregular business process — something that doesn’t happen every day, like generating an EPD — are we automatically expecting less of a return? How does this fit in with the day-to-day routines we’ve learned to crush?
Typically, a concrete product’s EPD lives with validity for five years. So, of course it’s not an everyday task. But when that day rolls around (or perhaps it’s sooner, when you update an EPD to reflect gains with composition or efficiency), manually collecting data can be a drag. So can processing that data. And documenting a lifecycle assessment. And obtaining third-party validation.
If they don’t have the time to manually fulfill all these steps, businesses could be paying consultants a hefty sum to take care of it all.
It’s only after this is all said and done before EPDs can provide any competitive advantage. And since we’re really after credibility, we have to acknowledge the possibility of a mistake from manually processing data. Managing large datasets with the naked eye is no simple task.
So why not make EPDs simpler? By removing lengthy reporting periods from the equation, the ready mix industry can lift a major obstacle to product transparency.
Here’s what goes on behind the scenes. With data pipelines connected between Command Alkon cloud solutions and a business's existing systems, reporting specifications like fuel consumption, water usage, raw materials input, and more are processed by AI to automatically account for shifts within supply chains and production. Access to this real-time reporting is what arms materials producers with a new and immediate competitive edge.
With strategies in place to extend this capability to aggregate and asphalt businesses, the heavy building materials industry will increasingly meet sustainable business goals and promote a necessary product transparency. We believe that documenting our sustainable progress shouldn’t be held down by what feels like a slow-burning chore. Product transparency — here we come!
