ASTM Workshop offers introduction to Product Category Rules.

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ASTM's workshop, An Introduction to Product Category Rules, Environmental Product Declarations and Other Aspects of Sustainable Process and Resilient Materials, will be held Dec 8. Product Category Rule in combination with Environmental Product Declaration is becoming the means to classify individual products as well as serve as comparison between products. Workshop will focus on the basics of these documents and how they relate to individual raw materials as well as ready-mix concrete.



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ASTM International Workshop Will Provide Introduction to Product Category Rules and Environmental Product Declarations



W. CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., —The ASTM workshop, An Introduction to Product Category Rules (PCR), Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) and Other Aspects of Sustainable Process and Resilient Materials, will be held Dec. 8 at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront, Jacksonville, Fla. Sponsored by ASTM International Committee C09 on Concrete and Concrete Aggregates, the workshop will be held in conjunction with the committee’s standards development meetings.



The increased marketplace demand for more resilient structures with products produced from sustainable processes has accelerated the need to verify those owner requirements and community goals. To respond to these demands, the marketplace needs a standard method of being able to compare products and production processes. A Product Category Rule (PCR) in combination with an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is rapidly becoming the means to classify individual products as well as serve as a comparison between products.



This workshop will focus on giving the basics of these documents and how they relate to individual raw materials as well as ready-mix concrete. ASTM has recently announced that is has become a Program Operator and in the business of verifying EPDs. This will also be explained as well as how PCRs and EPDs fit into the overall strategic picture for ASTM going forward.



Online registration will open approximately eight weeks before the workshop. For registration and additional information, visit www.astm.org/C09Wrkshp12-13.



Additional technical information is available from workshop co-chairmen Richard Szecsy, Texas Aggregates & Concrete Association, Austin, Texas (phone: 512-451-5100; rich.szecsy@tx-taca.org) and Steven Parker, CHRYSO Inc., Rockwall, Texas (phone: 214-415-7089; steve.parker@chrysoinc.com).



ASTM International is one of the largest international standards development and delivery systems in the world. ASTM International meets the World Trade Organization (WTO) principles for the development of international standards: coherence, consensus, development dimension, effectiveness, impartiality, openness, relevance and transparency. ASTM standards are accepted and used in research and development, product testing, quality systems and commercial transactions.



ASTM Staff Contact: Hannah Sparks, Phone: 610-832-9677; hsparks@astm.org

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