HPDs and EPDs increasingly becoming specification requirements for greener and healthier high-performance buildings

Cambridge, MA, Aug 13, 2019 – Sustainable Minds today announced the availability of the Transparency Catalog v2.1, continuing the company’s commitment to deliver simple, easy to use and powerful tools. With this release, architecture, engineering, construction professionals and owners (AECOs) can now find all manufacturers and the published Health Product Declarations® (HPDs) for their products in each CSI MasterFormat® division and section – in 1 click.

The Transparency Catalog now includes access to all v2.0, 2.1 and 2.1.1 HPDs — a total of 3,175 from 332 manufacturers in 18 MasterFormat (MF) divisions adding ~195 more sections to the Catalog across divisions 03 Concrete, 04 Masonry, 07 Thermal and Moisture Protection, 09 Finishes and 12 Furnishings.

Now AECOs can find all manufacturers and their EPDs and HPDs in one place. Introduced in January 2019, the Transparency Catalog v2.0 became the single source for ALL EPDs for building products used in North America. Today it includes 2,190+ EPDs from 679 manufacturers in 21 MasterFormat divisions.

HPDs are the leading material ingredient disclosure program in the building industry. The HPD Open Standard is a standard specification for the accurate, reliable and consistent reporting of product contents and associated health information, for products used in the built environment. Products with HPDs are eligible to contribute to credits in LEED v4, the Well Building Standard and the Collaborative for High Performance Schools. Using the automated data exchange (API) capabilities of the HPD Public Repository, the authoritative source for all published HPDs, ensures that the Transparency Catalog will always have the most updated HPD reports available,

“We are delighted to implement the HPD Public Repository automated data exchange with Sustainable Minds’ Transparency Catalog,” said Wendy Vittori, executive director of HPD Collaborative. “Manufacturers and AECO firms are asking for innovation in how to present and understand information about chemical ingredients and health attributes. The Transparency Catalog presents a creative, highly integrated and quality-curated approach to connecting manufacturer product information with sustainability reports, and making it easily accessible and understandable for anyone who needs it.”

“AECOs can now find products with environmental performance and/or material ingredient disclosures in 21 of the most common MasterFormat divisions, in their appropriate sections, in 1 click. This saves enormous amounts of time doing product research and ensures that manufacturers who have invested in product transparency can be easily found in the selection and specification process.”

“The number of HPDs (v2.0 and later) now exceeds the total number of EPDs. Given that each disclosure can represent many more than one product, there are 10s of thousands of greener and healthier products available to be specified for high-performance building projects,” said Terry Swack, Sustainable Minds Founder & CEO. “AECOs can now find products with environmental performance and/or material ingredient disclosures in 21 of the most common MasterFormat divisions, in their appropriate sections, in 1 click. This saves enormous amounts of time doing product research and ensures that manufacturers who have invested in product transparency can be easily found in the selection and specification process.”

Design and technology can solve for time and cost efficiency. People should expect better tools. The purpose of the Transparency Catalog is to help accelerate the transformation of the built environment. Education, awareness and enthusiasm for greener and healthier products continue to grow, but for mainstream adoption, tools must be easy to use and easily integrated into current workflows. Finding brands and products with transparency disclosures in one place means people can then apply their own selection criteria. Getting everything all in one place and making it easy to compare is the first step.

Manufacturers and AECOs – Attend the webinar to learn more about using the Transparency Catalog v2.1 and the benefits to you and your organization. https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/2877854438761476876

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ABOUT SUSTAINABLE MINDS
Founded in 2007, Sustainable Minds provides cloud solutions and services to help product manufacturers design and market greener products. In 2013, the company introduced its award-winning SM Transparency Report™, an innovation in EPD delivery and became a program operator to create standardized tools that make product transparency easier to understand and more effective. Today the company is the leading B2B cloud provider of environmental product transparency applications and content for building product manufacturers and AECOs.

The Transparency Catalog radically simplifies the delivery of product transparency information. In 1-click, powerful CSI MasterFormat® filtering enables architects, engineers, contractors, and owners (AECOs) to find EVERY brand and their products with transparency disclosures – in each division and section – making it possible to do in seconds what today takes hours, days or can’t be done at all. Designed, curated and continually updated by Sustainable Minds customer experience and product transparency experts, it delivers the best user experience throughout the construction process, from design to build. It’s free to use, no ads, no login and no selling data or analytics, ever.

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ABOUT HPDC
HPDC is a not-for-profit, member association with over 250 organizational members, representing the full spectrum of the building industry: architects, designers, building owners, manufacturers, consultants, tool developers, and others who all share a common purpose to improve the transparency of information and the material health of the built environment. The HPD Open Standard has become widely adopted as the industry standard for reporting on building product contents and associated health information, since its launch in 2012, with over 5,000 HPD reports publicly available. HPDC members champion the continuous improvement of the building industry’s performance through transparency, openness and innovation in the practices of reporting, disclosure, specification and selection of building products. For more information, visit hpd-collaborative.org.