Welcome to the Transparency Catalog!
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MFRs: Find out about the value of adding your products.
AECOs: Schedule an educational demo for your team.
Get started finding brands and products with transparency documentation!
See ALL brands at a glanceWe've made it super easy to get greener & healthier products, and reward manufacturers for making them.
AECOs: It operationalizes product selection and closes the gaps in workflow, data and tools between each stage – from design to specification, planning, building and management – revolutionizing the end-to-end process for teams. Learn more
MFRs:
It's the only high-performance product selection, specification, & construction intelligence solution that gets your products into projects and libraries – and you’ll know about it.
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Manufacturers
Make your investments in product transparency pay off.
Find out how to get your brand and products in front of the most targeted & motivated AECOs and dramatically improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your sales, marketing and education efforts.
Partners in embodied carbon, material health, circularity, K-12 schools, AIA & LEED CEUs, specification, material samples and BIM
We're revolutionizing high performance building product selection, specification and procurement by radically simplifying the delivery of product transparency information.
Powerful CSI MasterFormat® filtering
Displays EVERY brand and its products with transparency disclosures in each division and section, making it possible to do in seconds what has taken hours, days or couldn't be done at all – especially when you need three equivalent options.
Now it's even easier to integrate transparency into your organization's spec and BoD product libraries.
Making it quick to accurately maintain and to get sample, specification, quote & submittal help from manufacturers when you need it.
Free access to the most comprehensive, curated and continually updated source of building & construction products for high performance, low embodied carbon buildings – organized by MasterFormat® section.
You'll find EVERY building product manufacturer anywhere in the world making products available in N. America, investing in product transparency.
20+ new brands added monthly as each creates EPDs or material disclosures for the first time.
Includes EVERY:
Filter by each credit green building rating system transparency credit Find products and disclosures that contribute to each of the EPD and materials credits that reward transparency. Learn more.
No more wondering which disclosures go with which product. Unique product table design displays EVERY product with all the transparency disclosures for that product.
In-a-glance results make it easy to evaluate a lot of MFRs and products quickly. Using text, graphics and handy tooltips to explain each disclosure type, we make transparency more understandable and meaningful to help make better informed decisions.
The first product data provider to partner with Building Transparency & the EC3 tool in 2019. We collaborated to create a custom API to provide simple, in-a-glance comparative results; and later, Buy Clean CA eligibility data to find EPDs for Buy Clean in 1 click.
A 50-page methodology document in a tool tip. The methodology is an innovation in comparing embodied carbon impacts. The tooltip provides a description of the process and key to the visual results with interpretation guidance.
Every EPD links back to the Transparency Catalog to connect the last mile. Every MFR’s page and their EPDs link to their Transparency Catalog Listing to find the products, transparency documentation and contact information for you to select, specify and procure lower embodied carbon materials.
The first program operator to partner with Building Transparency & the EC3 tool. We ensure the EPDs we create get added to the EC3 tool quickly and accurately.
MasterFormat® filtering will ALWAYS give you results. We add division and section numbers only when there are products or disclosures.
Search looks at names: MasterFormat division and section (not numbers), brand, product type and product.
1. Use MasterFormat filtering when you want to reliably find all MFRs in a division and section. You do NOT need to use the section pulldown to get results. Use it when you know specifically the section you want info on, fast.
2. Use Search when you're not sure which MasterFormat division/section includes the products you're looking for.
3. Use MasterFormat filtering AND search when you want to further parameterize your results. For example, selecting a MasterFormat division and/or section plus a company name will show you all the products from that MFR in that division, fast.
4. Be sure to go the MFR’s listing page to find all their products, specs, contact, other info and communication tools. On the:
There are more filters available on the results page. You can use as many as you like, IN ANY ORDER, to find brands and products the way you want.
For example, if you are working on a:
Trouble getting results? Clear the filters to make sure one isn't accidentally still turned on and limiting your results.
Check your email for the link to confirm your email address and get started using your new Transparency Catalog account!
You can now get started using the Transparency Catalog, the leading building & construction products platform for high performance, low embodied carbon buildings.