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Gensler Now Requires EPDs for Key Product Categories: Free Webinar Explains What It Means for Manufacturers
Building product manufacturers can hear directly from Gensler about its environmental product declaration (EPD) requirements in a free online session on Tuesday, November 17.
Register for free to save your spot.
Gensler, one of the world's largest architecture firms, designs more than a billion square feet of buildings each year. It now requires EPDs for many of the product categories it specifies most often.
EPDs give independently verified data on a product's environmental impact across its life cycle. As more architects and owners set targets to cut embodied carbon, they're increasingly asking manufacturers to provide this data during the specification and bidding process. Products without it risk being passed over.
When a firm the size of Gensler sets a requirement, the wider market tends to follow. For manufacturers, EPDs are becoming important for winning bids, staying on spec and keeping existing accounts.
In the session, David Briefel, Climate Action & Sustainability Leader, Sustainability Director and Principal at Gensler, will explain why the firm made EPDs a requirement and where the industry is heading.
Attendees will learn:
- Why more architecture firms are asking for EPDs, and what that means for manufacturers
- What firms like Gensler look for when they evaluate products for a project
- What the EPD process involves and how to plan for it
- How EPDs can help manufacturers stay competitive for bids and specifications
The webinar is hosted by Installer & elemental in partnership with One Click LCA. It's free to attend, and registrants who can't join live will receive the recording.
Date: Tuesday, November 17
Time: 10am ET / 9am CT / 8am MT / 7am PT