Sustainable products may be viewed from three perspectives:
A key tool in the building product transparency toolbox is ingredient disclosure for the accurate, reliable and consistent reporting of product contents and their potential health impacts – at all stages of extraction, manufacture, use and end-of-life disposal.
Ingredient disclosure used in the building industry shares the following commonalities.
These disclosures often require a significant amount of data collection in the supply chain to meet reporting thresholds and, therefore, are time- and resource-intensive for manufacturers to complete, specifically in multi-component, configurable and highly customizable products like those in the fenestration industry.
The methodologies for creating and maintaining material transparency reports continue to evolve.