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Leadership in Healthier Materials

Revealing the Story Your Data Tells About Your Project and Portfolio

Our insights uncover the patterns hidden in your siloed project and portfolio data—showing where materials, design choices, and operational decisions align with your strategic goals and human-centered outcomes.

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Proven Consulting Expertise

An industry leader in high-performance green building since 2010, Materially Better facilitates all aspects of sustainable and regenerative design for renovations and construction. Our clients include sustainability leaders such as Harvard, Princeton, Yale, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), ZGF Architects, Brightworks Sustainability, Bruner/Cott Architects, and more. Our collective experience encompasses more than 70 sustainability projects—including over two dozen Living Building Challenge (LBC) projects. We aim to deliver optimum results for the lowest possible fee, enabling rapid proliferation of these market-transforming buildings.

Materially Better Buildings

The Materially Better Advantage™ utilizes products evaluated against such standards as the Common Materials Framework, AIA Materials Pledge, and LBC Red List. This approach empowers you to make better choices today while we stay proactive in advocating for healthier products from manufacturers with our eyes on the future.

We gather momentum in this movement by bringing owners, architects, engineers, and construction professionals across the industry to the forefront of sustainable materials management. By collaborating with us, our clients play a pivotal role in advancing the sustainable materials movement, contributing to improved health for occupants, workers, and the community, all while actively minimizing embodied carbon in their projects.

Consulting Services Supported by Red2Green

Get a FREE MATERIALS INSIGHT REPORT that will help you make better choices on your project. Just upload a few products or part of a finish schedule. We’ll benchmark them and send back the results.

Let’s Get STarted

Why Materially Better?

The Materially Better Advantage™

Our approach translates complex project and portfolio data into clear insights that reveal how your choices shape outcomes. Across projects and portfolios, small decisions ripple into larger patterns. We help you understand the choices embedded in your buildings and reveal where your attention will have the greatest impact—so your investments reflect both your operational goals and the health of the people who use them. This framework combines expert guidance, curated materials data, and advanced analytics—empowering your team to make informed, impactful decisions on individual projects and across entire portfolios.

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Unmatched Expertise

The Materially Better team includes leaders in sustainable materials research and implementation, with extensive experience across diverse building types and scales. We are uniquely positioned to help you navigate the complexities of materials compliance, embodied carbon reduction, and client sustainability goals.

Strategic Partnership

We go beyond making recommendations. We collaborate alongside clients to transfer knowledge, create internal expertise, and support your long-term success. With Materially Better, our clients achieve immediate project wins while establishing a sustainable materials strategy for the future.

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Actionable Insights

We equip our clients and partners with criteria and tools proven to drive continuous improvement, generating wisdom that leads to even better outcomes on future work.

Documented Success

Our guidance and the power of Red2Green will help you meet and exceed industry standards, including the AIA Materials Pledge, ensuring compliance while enhancing project performance.

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The People behind the scene

Meet Our Team

A collective of innovative minds and spirited individuals committed to environmental leadership.

Charley Stevenson, Founder and Principal, Materially Better

Charley Stevenson, LFA, LEED AP, Founder

Charley Stevenson has been delving deeper and deeper into sustainable building materials since beginning work on his first Living Building Challenge project in 2011. With the Materially Better team, he has developed processes and software to integrate better materials selections into all project types and to transform the market as quickly and easily as possible. The Red2Green platform has reduced Red List research and documentation effort by a factor of three while building up a library of over 20,000 products screened for compliance.

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