This CEU is a primer on the latest step in that direction: environmental product declarations (EPD), which seek to provide relevant, verified and comparable information about the environmental impacts of goods and services. Under discussion will be the basics of EPDs—the information they contain, their evolution, status in North America, and how they offer real evidence of a product's environmental footprint. Examples of EPDs will be presented with a focus on the wood industry, as will a discussion of how architects can use EPDs along with other environmental rating systems in designing more sustainable structures.

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