Manufacturers & Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)

  • A digital infographic presenting commitments and actions toward sustainability, featuring cover images of reports and a list of strategies for reducing operational and embodied carbon, including emission reduction targets, standards review, and progress reporting.

    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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  • Flowchart outlining refrigerant lifecycle and recycling process, including production, supply, handling, and potential leakage risks.

    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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  • Environmental Product Declarations with logos of UL, SCS, ASTM, and NSF certifications, and a list of topics including what EPDs are, their importance, types available, starting the process, and timeline for offering certified equipment.

    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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  • Title slide for MEP 2040 Specification Language Templates presentation, featuring the project goal and list of contributing authors and organizations. The slide includes two boxed sections: one labeled 'Language for General HVAC/MEP Equipment Section of Specs' and the other labeled 'Additional Language for Specific HVAC/MEP Sections of Specs'.

    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.

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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.