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Sustainable Minds Partners with Health Product Declaration Collaborative and Perkins&Will to Advance Healthy Material Selection

June 22, 2023

Award-Winning School Achieves Daylight and Occupant Comfort Goals with Glass

October 26, 2022

Seeking to introduce more transparency and daylight into San Francisco’s industrial arts-focused Lick-Wilmerding High School, architect EHDD chose Solarban 70glass from Vitro Architectural Glass for new skylights and a curtainwall addition to the existing building.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Low-slope roof design includes decisions that incorporate building design parameters, roof system components, and attachment methods. This presentation will provide the knowledge required to formulate the best design for your next roofing project.

This course will introduce participants to the fundamentals of prefabricated walls, and detail the features, benefits, and design considerations of Prefabricated EIFS-Clad Wall Assemblies.

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