Sustainability
How to Approach the Material Ingredients Credit in LEED v4Posted by: Mats Inc.
The changes in LEED v4 were introduced to push project teams to meet more stringent requirements and to adapt to new knowledge in the green environment. Those who have attended the Greenbuild conference in past years know that a shift has occurred to focus primarily on transparency. Material and Resources (MR) credit category had one... Read More
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Thu 4Dec 2014
Greenbuild Learning: Choosing Products for LEED v4Posted by: Mats Inc.
Manufacturers have been gearing up for the transition to LEED v4 for the past two years or longer by working diligently to develop and publish Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), Environment Product Declarations (EPD), and Health Product Declarations (HPD) in support of Material and Resources credits. As a product manager on the manufacturing side of the... Read More
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Tue 4Nov 2014
5 Lessons from GreenBuild 2014Posted by: Mats Inc.
After attending nearly a dozen educational sessions over the course of three days at GreenBuild 2014, I thought my head was going to explode. Seriously, I found that most of the sessions were interesting and thought-provoking. Some of the material was new and some information just confirmed what we already knew. Following are lessons from... Read More
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Mon 3Nov 2014
Lesson 5 from GreenBuild 2014: Sustainability Beyond the Building IndustryPosted by: Mats Inc.
One of the inspiring aspects of this convention for me was the presence of non-industry related people attending and presenting. A representative from Amazon was in sessions as an attendee investigating the potential to incorporate green product attributes into the selection criteria for consumer evaluation. In the session titled Marketing & Sustainability: The Tools and... Read More
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Mon 3Nov 2014
Lesson 4 from GreenBuild 2014: The State of OhioPosted by: Mats Inc.
The panel leading the session titled, Leveraging Green Schools for Market Transformation was comprised of individuals mostly from Ohio including David Scott, Partner, Kohrman Jackson & Krantz; Lisa Laney, Sustainability Administrator, State of Ohio, Ohio Facilities Construction Commission; and Ian MacGregor, MS, Senior Research Scientist, Battelle; with one panelist from PA, Kelly Henderson, Advisor, Green... Read More
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