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Eugene requires EPDs for city concrete mixes, advances low‑carbon materials
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City of Eugene staff told a committee the city now requires Environmental Product Declarations for concrete used on capital projects, and described existing low‑carbon measures — warm‑mix asphalt, 35% recycled asphalt content and a 30% minimum SCM requirement — and ongoing pilots to increase SCMs and monitor durability.
City of Eugene public‑works staff told a committee that the city is requiring Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for concrete used on its capital projects and is pursuing additional low‑carbon material pilots.
Rachel Vicunas, one of the principal civil engineers on the city’s capital projects team, said the city has already taken several steps to reduce embodied carbon in construction: adopting warm‑mix asphalt roughly 10–15 years ago, requiring 35% recycled asphalt materials in base and wearing courses, and mandating at least 30% supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) in concrete mixes. "We're getting these EPDs are now a requirement for all of our concrete mixes on our capital projects," Vicunas said…
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