Technical Assistance, Tools, Resources and Funding Opportunities

• What is Embodied Carbon?
• Inflation Reduction Act
• Grant Program
• Technical Assistance, Tools, Resources & Funding Opportunities
• Label Program for Low Embodied Carbon Construction Materials

This page includes technical assistance opportunities and informational resources offered by EPA, its partner agencies in the federal government, and other organizations related to embodied carbon of construction materials. 

Over the coming year and beyond, EPA and grantees (announced July 2024) of the Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Construction Materials and Products grant program will continue to offer a variety of new tools and resources to support stakeholders in developing and using environmental product declarations to quantify embodied carbon emissions linked to construction materials.  

New! EPD Basics: A Manufacturer’s Guide to How and Why to Develop an Environmental Product Declaration 

This guide is a resource for those new to EPDs. It explains what EPDs are, how to develop them and their importance to measuring and disclosing embodied carbon information associated with construction materials.  

• EPD Basics: How and Why to Develop an EPD (pdf) (1.1 MB)

New! November 12, EPD Advisory Services  

EPA’s EPD advisory services are available to support stakeholders with questions related to creating disclosures of embodied carbon of construction materials. EPA intends to offer advisory services to:  

• Businesses that manufacture construction materials and products for the U.S. market and wish to develop EPDs to disclose embodied carbon of their products. 

• Federal agencies, states, Tribes, nonprofit organizations and others that support manufacturers of construction materials, procure low embodied carbon construction materials or otherwise engage with such manufacturers. 

• Program operators (and product category rule (PCR) committees) who are developing or revising PCRs for construction materials. 

To request EPD advisory services or if you have questions about what type of assistance is available to you, contact us.

EPA’s EPD advisory services team can help with the following activities: 

• EPD development and use: step-by-step advice on the EPD development process, guidance on how to collect primary data and use EPD generator tools, information on how EPDs relate to global warming potential and explanations of technical considerations for integrating EPDs into procurement. 

• Life cycle data development and use (for PCRs and EPDs): guidance on data collection, how to integrate EPA’s data quality assessment method into the life cycle data development process, and how to increase supply chain specificity in life cycle inventory data. 

• Product Category Rule assistance: reviews of new or updated PCRs for alignment with EPA’s PCR Criteria and guidance on EPA’s approach to secondary data sources to improve supply chain specificity, the role of life cycle assessments in supporting PCR development, and how to form or participate in a PCR committee for construction materials.

Technical assistance for securing a product label under the EPA’s Label Program for Low Embodied Carbon Construction Materials is coming soon. Please visit the label program website for additional information. 

Before reaching out for EPD Advisory Services, please review EPA’s existing resources listed below. 

Direct EPD Advisory Services will be provided at the discretion of EPA and based on resource availability. 

In technical assistance support consultations, mention of trade names, products, or services does not convey, and should not be interpreted as conveying, official EPA approval, endorsement, or recommendation.

Contact EPA for EPD Advisory Services. 

Resources, Tools and Funding Opportunities to Support Disclosure of Embodied Carbon of Construction Materials

Previous EPA Webinars on Embodied Carbon Efforts

• March 21, 2024 – “EPA’s Efforts to Improve Product Category Rules for Environmental Product Declarations” (webinar recording, presentation slides (pdf))

• February 27, 2024 – “Developing a Label Program for Low Embodied Carbon Construction Materials” (webinar recording, presentation slides (pdf))

• Nov. 2 and Nov. 14, 2023 – “Inflation Reduction Act Section 60112 Grant Program, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Construction Materials and Products” (webinar recording, presentation slides (pdf)) 

• April 19, 2023 – “Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Carbon Labeling” (webinar recording, presentation slides (pdf))

• March 22, 2023 – “Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Grants and Technical Assistance for Environmental Product Declarations” (webinar recording, presentation slides (pdf))

• March 2, 2023 – “Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Construction Materials Prioritization and Environmental Data Improvement” (webinar recording, presentation slides (pdf))

Current and Upcoming Training Opportunities for Manufacturers of Construction Materials

• Industrial Assistance Network – EPA’s ENERGY STAR program offers specialized energy management training and support at no charge to help manufacturers of construction materials reduce the carbon footprint of their operations and the embodied carbon of their products. Support from the Industrial Assistance Network includes coaching from professional industrial energy managers and training on strategies to control energy consumption.

Federal Funding Opportunities

• Funding Opportunities for Industry

  • DOE Industrial Demonstrations Program: Department of Energy’s $6 billion grant program supports research and development of clean energy technologies for industrial decarbonization.

  • USDA Wood Innovations Grant: A Department of Agriculture program that supports climate-smart mass timber construction and expands wood markets.