A Letter to the Design Community: How Do We Commit to Using Better Materials?
Dear Design Teams:
It’s 2021, a time for new beginnings. Let’s talk about our work — and I mean all of us — in achieving better building products for people and the planet. With the AIA’s recently reiterated Materials Pledge, we have heard the buzz around the design build community. But we’ve also heard from manufacturers, with whom my company interacts daily as a healthier materials research consultant, that the uptake on their healthier options remains slower than expected. We all know that demand is essential to market transformation, and critical to the equitable distribution of healthier products throughout the marketplace.