Manufacturers & Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)
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Creating a company plan - Buro Happold
By adopting this Challenge, each MEP engineering and design firm is confirming that it will establish a company plan to reduce operational and embodied carbon across MEP systems on all projects, targeting zero by 2040. Measure and report progress against that plan annually.
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Refrigerants overview
By adopting this Challenge, each MEP engineering and design firm is confirming that it will request low-GWP refrigerant availability when designing systems to reduce or eliminate GHG emissions from refrigerants.
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Requesting EPDs
By adopting this Challenge, each MEP engineering and design firm is confirming that it will request Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) in project specifications for MEP system components
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Specification Language Templates
Recommend to include in most general/overarching section of specs for HVAC/MEP Equipment. Includes detailed list of references (Model LCA Specifications from CLF, TM65 methodology, Carbon Definitions for the Built Environment, etc.) and definitions (EPD, Embodied Carbon, LCA, PCRs, TM65, etc.)
In “submittals” subsection, asks for embodied carbon submittals. Includes proposed language around: 1) how to determine which equipment requires embodied carbon data; 2) Hierarchy of data sources for embodied carbon.
Resources to support the Commitment are crowd-sourced. Please submit resources such as company reports, company plans, case studies, research papers, or tools you think may be helpful to others. The MEP 2040 website will link to external publicly available locations such as web pages, and storage places such as Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive.