Explore the Fascinating World of
Adhesives & Sealants
You can bump into it, pull it, push it, stretch it or tear it but it still holds fast. You never notice the material that holds everything together - except when you need it. In fact, as you scan the skyline of today's cities, adhesives and sealants are everywhere. T o find out more about the fascinating world of adhesives and sealants that is all around you, click here.
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Current Innovations in Practice
GreenFormat®, an Online Tool Providing Structure for Environmental Product Evaluation
By: Paul R Bertram, Jr. FCSI, CDT, LEED AP, Director, Environment & Sustainability, Kingspan Insulated Panels
The green building movement in the U.S. is largely being driven by “green” rating systems, emerging standards and building codes that incorporate criteria for environmental consideration in product evaluation. These efforts are now incorporating Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a scientific approach for environmental assessment of building products. LCA includes multiple attribute reporting in an effort to improve upon the, historically, inconsistent single attribute environmental reporting and labeling, which causes market confusion often referred to as “greenwashing.” Although LCA is an accepted, scientific approach to understanding product environmental impacts, it does not provide all of the information that should be considered in a product environmental assessment. Read more.
ASC Members interested in listing your product with GreenFormat, click here.
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