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Even with new products on the back burner, there still was plenty to see at Greenbuild 2013.
A After walking the Greenbuild 2013 exhibitor hall Nov. 20-21 it became evident that major manufacturers did not pack as many new products or technologies for the Philadelphia incarnation of the premier sustainable building trade show.
Still, there was plenty to see and learn at the Philadelphia Convention Center.
TOTO announced a new way to report product transparency that will enable customers to earn LEED v4 credits by installing certain highefficiency toilets. In the past TOTO could not comply with LEED v4's option to provide Environmental Product Declarations for the company's HETs because LEED contained no Product Category Rule for toilets.
TOTO and Sustainable Minds - a cloud-based software and services company helping manufacturers design and market greener products - teamed up and found that current EPDs provide so much life-cycle analysis and other environmental data that they are difficult to understand for a nontechnical reader. Now, the companies put together more concise SM Transparency Reports. These are new three-page reports...