The chairman of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) working group on whole building Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) says he thinks it’s not if the glass industry officially embraces a specific Environmental Product ...
The Resilient Floor Covering Institute released five industry average Environmental Product Declarations, making resilient flooring the first floorcovering category to offer industry average EPDs. Five types of resilient flooring were ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Tandus Centiva, a Tarkett company, has published seven Environmental Product Declarations to further enhance transparency, accountability and third party validation for its modular and hybrid resilient flooring products. The manufacturer ...
Tags: Resilient Flooring, Flooring
NSF International, in cooperation with the Glass Association of North America’s Float Glass Manufacturing Division, is developing a Product Category Rule for flat and float glass. Product Category Rules are science-based, ...
Tags: flat glass, float glass, glass, glass products
ASTM International has launched a new initiative as a Program Operator for Product Category Rules(PCRs)and Environmental Product Declarations(EPDs),which it says will be used to better track the environmental impact of products.According to ...
Tags: ASTM, environmental effect, PCR
ASTM International announced its new initiative as a program operator for Product Category Rules and Environmental Product Declarations.The goal of the program is to assist product manufacturers in developing PCRs and verifying EPDs.Also ...
Tags: ASTM, LCA, environment
ASTM International announced its new initiative as a program operator for Product Category Rules and Environmental Product Declarations.The goal of the program is to assist product manufacturers in developing PCRs and verifying EPDs.Also ...
IT must move beyond just measuring a datacentre's energy efficiency and power consumption to assessing its overall environmental impact to make meaningful changes and ensure IT facilities are truly sustainable. As businesses come under ...
Tags: datacentres, Green Grid, datacentre-efficiency, green credentials
The glass and glazing industry took one step closer to developing product category rules for windows during the American Architectural Manufacturers Association National Fall Conference in Albuquerque, N. M., yesterday. Product category ...
Tags: market view, glass
One of the reasons the construction codes have held my interest for decades is that they always seem to present a new challenge.Just when we start to figure something out—whether it be compliance with the Americans with Disabilities ...
Tags: construction codes, AAMA, building green, Life Cycle