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Declare
Program
The Declare product database and label are used to select products that meet the Living Building Challenge's and Living Product Challenge's stringent materials requirements, streamlining the materials specification and certification process. Labels are self-declared, verification is optional.
Declare labels are self-declared, verification is optional.
Indicates Declare has been third-party reviewed.
Declare 3rd party verifiers: A Greener Space, Green Start, GreenCircle, SCS, Sustainability Made Simple, Vertima, WAP Sustainability.
Results
LBC Red List Free (formerly "Red List Free"): This product is 100% disclosed at 100ppm and does not contain any ingredients on the Red List.
LBC Red List Approved (formerly "LBC Compliant"): This product is 99-100% disclosed at 100ppm and may contain Red List ingredient(s) if covered by an existing exception.
Declared: This product is 100% disclosed at 100ppm and contains Red List ingredient(s).
Visit the Declare website to learn more.
This document is identified in these Common Materials Framework (CMF) impact levels:
Human Health
Climate Health
Circular Economy
Social Health & Equity
Cradle to Cradle Certified®
Program
Cradle to Cradle (C2C) Certified® is a global standard for products that are safe, circular and responsibly made. It assesses the safety, circularity and responsibility of materials and products across five categories of sustainability performance: Material Health, Product Circularity, Clean Air & Climate Protection, Water & Soil Stewardship, Social Fairness.
All C2C Certifications are third-party verified.
Companies must work with an independent assessment body to assess and verify a product’s performance across each of the C2C Certified performance categories.
Results
C2C certification is awarded based upon four ascending levels of achievement. Each performance category (Material Health, Product Circularity, Clean Air & Climate Protection, Water & Soil Stewardship, Social Fairness) is awarded an achievement level and the product’s lowest category achievement level determines its overall certification level. Certification must be renewed every two years with measurable improvement required at each recertification.
Platinum
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Products with active certification are listed in the publicly available C2C Certified Product Registry.
This document is identified in these Common Materials Framework (CMF) impact levels:
Human Health
Climate Health
Circular Economy
Social Health & Equity
Ecosystem Health
Cradle to Cradle Certified Material Health Certificate™
Program
C2C Certified Material Health Certificate™ is issued to products and materials that have been assessed, optimized and verified for material health in accordance with the C2C Certified Material Health category requirements.
All C2C Certified Material Health Certificates are third-party verified.
Companies must work with an independent assessment body to assess and verify a product’s Material Health performance.
Results
C2C Certified Material Health Certificates are awarded based upon four ascending levels of achievement. The certificate must be renewed every two years with measurable improvement required at each issuance.
Platinum
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Products with active certificates are listed in the publicly available Material Health Certificate Registry.
This document is identified in these Common Materials Framework (CMF) impact levels:
Human Health
Living Product Challenge Certification
Program
The Living Product Challenge (LPC) is a philosophy first, an advocacy tool second and a certification program third. The Challenge is a framework for manufacturers to create products that are healthy, inspirational and give back to the environment.
Living Product label has been 3rd party verified.
LPC 3rd party verifiers: A Greener Space, Green Start, GreenCircle, SCS, Sustainability Made Simple, Vertima, WAP Sustainability.
Results
Imperative Certified: The product has imperative certification which requires that, at minimum, the seven Core Imperatives are attained, representing a significant and holistic achievement that companies can build on to achieve higher levels of certification.
Petal Certified: The product has petal certification which requires achievement of the Core Imperatives and at least three of the seven Petals, one of which must be the Water, Energy, or Materials Petal.
Living Certified: The product is full living product certified which requires the achievement of all 20 Imperatives, signaling that the product has become truly regenerative across all impact areas and can be counted among the most sustainable in the world.
Visit the Living Product Challenge website to learn more.
This document is identified in these Common Materials Framework (CMF) impact levels:
Human Health
Climate Health
Circular Economy
Social Health & Equity
Ecosystem Health
Health Product Declaration
Program
The HPD Open Standard provides a consistent, and transparent format to accurately disclose the material contents and associated hazard classifications for a building product.
HPD Open Standard Version followed to create the HPD: v1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.2, 2.3
HPDs are self-declared, verification is optional.
Indicates HPD has been 3rd party verified.
HPD 3rd party verifiers: GreenCircle, SCS, Vertima, WAP Sustainability
Scope
Threshold concentration above which substances in the material are itemized by the manufacturer:
- 100 ppm
- 1000 ppm
- GHS SDS
- MSDS
- Other
Degree of disclosure of data for all substances in the product’s content inventory:
CCharacterized: % weight & role provided
SScreened: Screened using Priority Hazard Lists w/ results disclosed
IIdentified: Disclosed by name and identifier
Results
Highest concern GreenScreen Benchmark (BM) or List Translator (LT) Score of all substances:
BM1Avoid – chemical of high concern
LT-1Likely Benchmark 1
LT-P1Possible Benchmark 1
LT-UNKBenchmark unknown
UNKUnknown, chemical not identified on lists
BM-UUnspecified, insufficient data to benchmark
BM2Use but search for safer substitutes
BM3Use but still opportunity for improvement
BM4Prefer – safer chemical
Visit the HPD Collaborative website to learn more.
How HPDs qualify for LEED v4.1 points
This document is identified in these Common Materials Framework (CMF) impact levels:
Human Health
Circular Economy
Low-emitting
Low-emitting certificates are third-party certifications that verify building materials have low or no emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which protects indoor air quality.
This document is identified in these Common Materials Framework (CMF) impact levels:
Human Health
Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3)
Material Category Stages
EPDs in EC3 are grouped by material category. EC3 collaborates with manufacturers to develop functional / performance search parameters to facilitate appropriate product comparisons.
With hundreds of categories currently in EC3 and growing, categories are in various stages of development. To provide the most accurate comparative results in the Transparency Catalog, information about the category's stage in EC3 is displayed.
- Public – Comparative quintile result is displayed
- Public, high uncertainty – Too much uncertainty to be useful, result not displayed
- Public, no comparisons – Comparison cannot be calculated due to comparability issues with EPDs in the category
- Pilot – There are published EPDs, development in progress, results not yet public
- Draft – Insufficient category data, development not yet started
- No category – No category exists for these products yet
Contact Building Transparency to sponsor development or improve a category for Public status in EC3.
Note: Links to expired documents are kept for 24 months after the validity period if a new one has not been published.
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Subscription / Listing types
MasterFormat® filtered results are displayed in this order.
Company Name
Level 3: FEATURED BRAND
MFR has integrated product transparency with product marketing to:
- Make disclosures more understandable and meaningful for non-technical readers. Provide the value-add of integrated explanation and improvement stories that disclosures don’t report.
- Provide quick access to guide specs
They also have a Standard listing.
Company Name
Level 2: STANDARD
MFR has made it easy to find all their products with transparency info in 1 page
- ALL products displayed by MasterFormat® division/section and correlated to their EPDs and/or material ingredient disclosures
- Links to the product pages on MFR’s web site to provide more detailed info
- Social media and email sharing links
- Contact link and telephone # for product and spec help
- Contact email to close the loop when you select their product with transparency info
Level 1: FREE
MFR has invested in product transparency. These free listings let you know. Use the contact links to recommend they add their products
Company Name
MFR has EPDs for products. They may also have HPDs and/or other material ingredient disclosures.
Company Name
MFR has material ingredient disclosures only.
How filter and/or search works
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.
For best results
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.
- Searching by product type is quick, but may not always reliably return results that are as comprehensive as MasterFormat filtering.
- Searching on a MFR name will return their list of products and/or disclosures.
- Featured Brand and Standard listings include products, all disclosures, contact info, communication tools and more. You’ll find these MFRs at the top of search results.
- Free listings include names of disclosures and links to EPDs and/or material disclosures, but no product or other info. Use the handy email link to recommend the MFR create a Standard listing. People specify products with disclosures, not just disclosures.
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:
- Front page: click ‘See ALL brands at a glance’ or scroll down to find ALL the brands in North America investing in product transparency.
- Search results page: Click a MFR’s name and go to All brands at a glance and select a letter range (# A–B C–D, etc…); browse the section and click on the brands you know, and be sure to investigate the ones you don’t know yet.
Using filter and/or search on results page
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:
- Specification – Use the Masterformat section selector to find 3 MFRs with equivalent products.
- LEED or Living Building Challenge project – Use the rating systems filter first to select the transparency credits you want to earn.
- California public works project – Use the Buy Clean CA Act filter to find all MFRs with conformant EPDs for eligible materials.
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