Marketing Your Green Building Products

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1 Light House Services for Manufacturers: Marketing Your Green Building s IS YOUR PRODUCT GREEN? NO: You may think your product is not green but maybe it is! YES: Hooray! But is your product marketing clear? current? maximizing product exposure? LIGHT HOUSE IS HERE TO HELP How This Benefits You Get specified on green building projects! Increase marketing exposure of your green building products. Communicate your products alignment with popular and new green rating systems. Reduce technical support time answering green product questions. What Light House Offers Light House is here to help you by providing the following services: evaluation matrix: The matrix shows product alignment with popular third party green building rating systems such as: LEED, Green Globes, Living Building Challenge TM, WELL Building Standard TM, FitWel SM, and Built Green. Environmental Fact Sheet: A 2-page green marketing sheet for each product, with key data like % recycled content, bio-based material, Health Declaration, green components specifiers need to know. Refer to attached sample. Technical Staff Training: Deliver training to your technical service staff on green building rating systems, what information/documentation callers are looking for, and how they can help their clients. Company Sustainability Strategy: Provide opportunities on how best selling products might be green, and how you might maximize sustainability within your organization, looking at corporate best practices. About Light House If you need this, contact us: Joanne Sawatzky, Director of Building Services joanne@lhsbc.com x305 Light House Sustainable Building Centre is a social enterprise that helps clients understand what sustainability means for their organization or business. We move the green building industry forward through cutting-edge research, education and advocacy work and by leading a network of key industry players and technical specialists. With over 10 years of service supporting the industry, no organization is better connected, more knowledgeable or better prepared to help make your products shine in the marketplace. Feb 2017

2 Environmental Fact Sheet Concrete Post and Wall This product environmental fact sheet provides a summary of the environmental specifications that can contribute to third party green building rating systems such as LEED, Green Globes, Living Building Challenge and Built Green. To determine applicable green building credits, consult specific rating system reference guide. GENERAL INFORMATION Name Manufacturer s Name Contact Information Post / Wall ABC Concrete Solutions Your Name Here Phone: 604-XXX-XXXX General Environmental Attributes of yourcontact@web.ca Application / Use Post / Wall EBC Solutions post and wall caps are made from excess concrete shipped back from construction sites supplied by XYZ Cement Group, and therefore are composed of 100% preconsumer recycled material. ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SUMMARY 1. Environmental Declaration Publicly available No publicly available EPD exists for this product. Building Disclosure and Optimization 2. Sourcing of Raw Materials CSR Report meets/ participation in one of the following: Meets ISO and EN One is currently under development Self- Reported yes o Extended producer responsibility o Bio-based materials o Wood s o Material reuse o Recycled content Yes (see section below) o USGBC approved program o sources within 100miles Yes (see section below) 3. Material Ingredients Chemical Inventory publicly available and meets one of the following: o Chemical abstract service registration number (CASRN): o Health Declaration (HPD): o Cradle to Cradle o USGBC Approved Supply Chain Optimization o Third Party

3 ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SUMMARY... Continued Comply with CDPH or Canadian Equivalent Category Low Emitting Materials threshold and applicable standard o Interior Paint or coating o Interior adhesives or sealant (including flooring adhesive) o Flooring o Composite wood (ULEF) o Ceiling, walls, thermal and acoustic insulation o Furniture (ANSI/BIFMA M7.1) o Exterior products* *Healthcare and School projects must report exterior applied products For Projects using XYZ Concrete: Construction Waste Management Excess concrete shipped back from construction sites is used to manufacture the post and wall caps, and therefore is diverted from the waste stream. ABC Concrete Solutions will provide documentation confirming the weight of materials diverted for a project upon request, which can be included in construction waste diversion calculations. ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION- DETAILS For Projects using ABC Solutions Post / Wall : Recycled Content / Component % Assembly of % Post-Consumer % Pre-Consumer Overall Post / Wall 100% 0% 100% Regional Materials / % Assembly of Component Overall Post / Wall Manufacture / Final Assembly Material Extraction / Collection Mode of Transportation 100% Langley, BC Langley, BC Truck Heat Island Effect: Non-Roof / Roof / Component % Assembly of Overall Post / Wall 100% SRI Value End Light House # Carrall Street, Vancouver BC, V6B 6E3 T: W:

4 Environmental Fact Sheet Concrete Post and Wall This product environmental fact sheet provides a summary of the environmental specifications that can contribute to third party green building rating systems such as LEED, Green Globes, Living Building Challenge and Built Green. To determine applicable green building credits, consult specific rating system reference guide. GENERAL INFORMATION Name Manufacturer s Name Contact Information Post / Wall ABC Concrete Solutions Your Name Here Phone: 604-XXX-XXXX General Environmental Attributes of yourcontact@web.ca Application / Use Post / Wall EBC Solutions post and wall caps are made from excess concrete shipped back from construction sites supplied by XYZ Cement Group, and therefore are composed of 100% preconsumer recycled material. ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SUMMARY 1. Environmental Declaration Publicly available No publicly available EPD exists for this product. Building Disclosure and Optimization 2. Sourcing of Raw Materials CSR Report meets/ participation in one of the following: Meets ISO and EN One is currently under development Self- Reported yes o Extended producer responsibility o Bio-based materials o Wood s o Material reuse o Recycled content Yes (see section below) o USGBC approved program o sources within 100miles Yes (see section below) 3. Material Ingredients Chemical Inventory publicly available and meets one of the following: o Chemical abstract service registration number (CASRN): o Health Declaration (HPD): o Cradle to Cradle o USGBC Approved Supply Chain Optimization o Third Party

5 ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SUMMARY... Continued Comply with CDPH or Canadian Equivalent Category Low Emitting Materials threshold and applicable standard o Interior Paint or coating o Interior adhesives or sealant (including flooring adhesive) o Flooring o Composite wood (ULEF) o Ceiling, walls, thermal and acoustic insulation o Furniture (ANSI/BIFMA M7.1) o Exterior products* *Healthcare and School projects must report exterior applied products For Projects using XYZ Concrete: Construction Waste Management Excess concrete shipped back from construction sites is used to manufacture the post and wall caps, and therefore is diverted from the waste stream. ABC Concrete Solutions will provide documentation confirming the weight of materials diverted for a project upon request, which can be included in construction waste diversion calculations. ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION- DETAILS For Projects using ABC Solutions Post / Wall : Recycled Content / Component % Assembly of % Post-Consumer % Pre-Consumer Overall Post / Wall 100% 0% 100% Regional Materials / % Assembly of Component Overall Post / Wall Manufacture / Final Assembly Material Extraction / Collection Mode of Transportation 100% Langley, BC Langley, BC Truck Heat Island Effect: Non-Roof / Roof / Component % Assembly of Overall Post / Wall 100% SRI Value End Light House # Carrall Street, Vancouver BC, V6B 6E3 T: W: