Sustainability
Sustainability, documented.
Product decisions carry environmental consequences for the life of the building. We help project teams read the documentation, meet the requirements, and choose with the whole service life in view.
Three commitments
Literacy, compliance, and support for every line we represent.
Environmental product declarations, health product declarations, and the certifications behind them are only useful to a team that can read them. We teach what each document says, what it leaves out, and how to compare two products on the same terms.
Green building rating systems and owner standards set documentation requirements that tend to arrive late and cost time. We assemble the product documentation for our lines, confirm what each submittal needs, and keep the paperwork moving with the schedule.
Every manufacturer we represent publishes its own transparency documentation, and it is easier to use when someone knows where it lives. We keep current with each line's environmental documentation and bring it to the design team without a search.
What we bring to the meeting
Documentation, mapped to the products in your set.
- Environmental and health product declarations for the represented lines, current and filed by manufacturer.
- Rating-system and owner-standard documentation, matched to the products actually in the specification.
- Material comparisons that weigh service life and maintenance alongside first cost.
- A lunch-and-learn on reading transparency documents, in your office or ours.
Laura Elliott, M.S.Ed
Director of Strategy and Sustainability. Leads the firm's sustainability literacy work and the transparency documentation behind it.
Michael W. O'Connor
Managing Member. Sustainability Ambassador through Construction Specialties.
The whole team
Documentation requests route to the same people who write the sections and review the submittals, so the answer arrives with context.
Bring the documentation question early.
Tell us the rating system, the owner standard, or the product you are weighing. We come back with the documents and a plain reading of what they mean for the room.