At Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope, our journey to re-invent a better future begins with creating industry leading solutions that have a positive impact on our people, our products, and our planet. We’ve developed certified environmental product declarations (EPDs) and health product declarations (HPDs) intended to promote transparency as well as provide software tools to help architects and engineers understand embodied carbon and operational carbon and how to reduce it wherever possible.

In this series of articles, we take it a step further by providing an analysis of a fenestration system and commercial building in such a way to compare the embodied and operational carbon by looking at some of the key factors driving the total carbon footprint. It’s another way our experts are in it with you as we strive to reduce the environmental impact of our products and operations on the built environment.