Tile Council of North America (TCNA) introduced the publication of its Materials Ingredient Information at present at Coverings 2021.
In response to TCNA, this Materials Ingredient Information, the primary of its variety by any constructing product {industry}, gives details about the fabric substances used industry-wide by North American tile, mortar and grout producers, gives in-depth well being assessments of these supplies, and is a useful resource for producers to make use of when offering the content material and chemical make-up of their merchandise or “materials ingredient transparency”.
In growing this information, 17 producers collaborated on the most important crowdfunded assortment of GreenScreen Assessments so far for the next two functions: 1) Get hold of GreenScreen Benchmark Scores (listed throughout the information) for the overwhelming majority of fabric substances utilized by ceramic tile, mortar and grout producers, 2) Facilitate referencing these benchmark scores and related GreenScreen Assessments when growing Producer Inventories (MI) and/or Well being Product Declarations (HPD) that qualify for contribution to inexperienced and wholesome constructing “optimization” credit.
“Product ingredient disclosure is in excessive demand,” said Dan Marvin, senior vice chairman of operations for Ironrock and chairman of TCNA’s Inexperienced Initiative Committee. “Via improvement of the Materials Ingredient Information, the tile {industry} is dedicated to thoroughness, consistency, and transparency in reporting details about the supplies from which our merchandise are made.”
The information is authored by Tennessee-based WAP Sustainability who labored with dozens of organizations whereas creating this information to carry readability and construction to the sophisticated topic of fabric ingredient transparency. Ensuing from TCNA’s and its members’ funding in disclosing industry-wide materials ingredient data, suppliers and customers of ceramic tile, mortar and grout may have a extra thorough and uniform understanding when specifying merchandise in accordance with inexperienced and wholesome constructing requirements, TCNA stated.
The next collaborating producers contributed to this reporting:
Ardex
Arto Brick
Bostik
Crest
Crossville, Inc.
Customized Constructing Merchandise
Dal-Tile Company
Florida Tile
Florim USA
Interceramic USA
Ironrock
Laticrete
Porcelanite-Lamosa
Portobello America
Schluter Programs
StonePeak Ceramics, Inc.
American Marvel Porcelain
With a constant, thorough and clear strategy to materials ingredient reporting and the compilation of referenceable GreenScreen Evaluation Benchmark scores on industry-wide supplies, TCNA stated its members intention to have the most important variety of absolutely assessed materials ingredient stories available in the market. These absolutely assessed stories will make ceramic tile, mortar and grout merchandise eligible for contribution to LEED, WELL and Dwelling Constructing Problem “optimization” credit, TCNA stated, including by no means earlier than has an {industry} supplied this stage of transparency, resulting in an industry-wide spectrum of merchandise changing into eligible for these optimization credit.
In response to Invoice Griese, TCNA’s director of requirements improvement and sustainability initiatives. “Following the Materials Ingredient Information’s steered steps and referencing industry-wide GreenScreen Assessments not solely facilitates product compliance with inexperienced and wholesome constructing certification applications, but in addition enhances model belief with prospects.”
TCNA’s Materials Ingredient Information initiative amplifies the North American ceramic tile {industry}’s unified message of well being and environmental sustainability already well-established by initiatives akin to industry-wide Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) and Inexperienced Squared product certification. As Wes Sullens, director of LEED for the U.S. Inexperienced Constructing Council commented when the mission was introduced in 2020, “The results of this collaboration throughout the tile {industry} will push the market ahead and spark even larger innovation and consideration for more healthy indoor environments. This work gives {the marketplace} with key data wanted by these pursuing LEED inexperienced constructing certification as they choose merchandise.”
Mark Rossi, government director of the non-profit group, Clear Manufacturing Motion, and co-founder of GreenScreen, praised the mission from the onset: “We applaud the TCNA for demonstrating {industry} management in chemical and materials well being with their sector-wide strategy to GreenScreen Assessments. It is a mannequin for the way different {industry} sectors can successfully pool sources to compile GreenScreen Benchmark scores of chemical compounds of their merchandise and optimize merchandise for materials well being.”