Category: Materially Better
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Process Over Perfection: The Real Path to Healthier Buildings
Charley Stevenson and Matt Root of Materially Better sit down with Richard Garrett to explore what it really takes to make healthier, more sustainable materials choices in the built environment. Read more
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From Inspiration to Implementation: The Next Phase of the Materials Movement
We don’t need new ideals—we need new ways to make those ideals actionable at every stage of design and construction. That’s what V3 is all about. That’s what Materially Better is built to support. Read more
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Bringing Order to Innovation: How AI and CSI MasterFormat Are Shaping Red2Green’s Future
Red2Green is harnessing AI and CSI MasterFormat to bring clarity, consistency, and innovation to sustainable product categorization. Our smarter system empowers architects, builders, and consultants to easily discover and specify healthier materials—accelerating better choices through an intuitive, industry-aligned library built for the future of design and construction. Read more
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Materially Better Announces Data Partnership with mindful MATERIALS Improving Access to Healthier Building Materials Insights
Integrating this certification-agnostic language into Red2Green allows any certification or standard to demonstrate its alignment with various sustainability objectives, empowering project teams to avoid the trappings of tunnel vision in product selection by uniting disparate initiatives, communities, standards, and data flow within a shared language. Read more
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Breathing Action into the AIA Materials Pledge
Partnering with our consultants enables you to assume a leadership role in this pivotal movement. As an architect, you have a distinctive opportunity to spearhead initiatives for the materials movement and demonstrate how effortlessly the AIA Materials Pledge can be transformed from mere words into meaningful actions. Read more
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Owner Benefits of Healthier Building Materials
Collaborating with our consultants allows you to play a pivotal role in this transformative journey because as an owner you have the unique ability to set goals and direct stakeholders in the selection and installation of thoroughly vetted, healthier materials that reduce embodied carbon and protect and enhance human health and well-being. Read more
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Plastics: Versatile? Yes. Problematic? Also Yes.
Plastic pollution has permeated both natural and built environments, leading to significant concerns for its impact on human health, degradation of ecosystems, and an alarming toll taken on marine species—including those that once enriched our diets. Read more
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The Power of Making Better Choices: Reflections from Greenbuild
The collective mindset at events like Greenbuild is what makes them so powerful, with presenters and attendees from corporate, governmental, and not-for-profit organizations engaging in conversation and collaboration. We move forward as we share knowledge and align our efforts. No one is going to win sustainability; we are all in this together. Read more
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Materially Better Launches New Initiative at Greenbuild
Materially Better announces its “Make Better Choices” program, bringing AEC professionals across the industry to the forefront of sustainable materials management. Launching at the GreenBuild convention in Philadelphia (Nov 2024), the program combines the company’s consulting expertise, its database of 20,000+ materials, and purpose-built platform to architects, contractors, and sustainability consultants. Read more
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Making It Easier: Collaborative Approaches for Better Choices
Rather than allowing the concept of easy to lull us into complacency as we wait for the discovery of a one-size-fits-all solution, perhaps a more productive question is: how can we unify our message to keep the market moving toward healthy and sustainable product selection across all product types? Read more