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ICC Joins the Global Alliance for Building and Construction

August 3, 2021

Under the community resilience benchmarks, city achieved an essential designation for buildings and an enhanced designation for housing.

Sustainable Minds Announces Transparency Catalog v2.0

January 28, 2019

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The first cloud-based productivity solution for architecture, engineering, construction and owners to make it super easy to find & specify greener and healthier products for high-performance buildings.

AIA Release White Paper on Materials Transparency and Risk

April 11, 2016

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Part of an AIA effort to equip the entire profession with consensus-driven guidance on an issue of critical importance to the profession, its suppliers and clients.

Importance of Transparency Highlighted During AAMA Fall Conference

October 23, 2015

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Smith gave a presentation called Opening the Door to Transparency - LEED v4, EPDs and HPDs at the American Architectural Manufacturers Association 2015 Fall Conference.

Corporate Sustainability Reports (CSRs) and LEED v4

Daniel Overbey

October 20, 2015

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Project teams can be rewarded by choosing products from manufacturers that have publicly released information from their raw materials suppliers.

Reporting Product Contents with HPDs

Working Towards a Healthier Building Materials Ecosystem

Eden Brukman

March 30, 2015

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The HPD collaborative created and supports the HPD, a tool for the accurate reporting of product contents and each ingredient’s relationship in regards to health.

Clearing Up Transparency

Amid a crowded landscape of eco-labels and claims, Environmental Product Declarations have emerged as a tool for seeing a product’s life-cycle impact in full disclosure.

Heather Gadonniex

January 25, 2012

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If Greenbuild 2011 was any indication, transparency is the hot new topic in the green building industry.