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• Coldspring
• Colorado Stone Quarries
• Continental Cut Stone
• Cutting Edge Countertops
• Delgado Stone Distributors
• Freshwater Stone
• Independent Limestone Company • Ontra Stone Concepts
• Planet Granite
• Polycor
• Quality Stone
• Royal Bedrock
• Russel Stone
• Stone Interiors
• Stony Creek Quarry
• Valley View Granite
• Vermont Quarries
• Vetter Stone
NSI selected Sustainable Minds® as the EPD program operator because of the com- pany’s innovative EPDs.
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NSI Publishes First Industry-Wide Environmental Product Declaration
& Health Product Declarations for Natural Stone
Documentation gives natural stone an advantage in today’s building & construction industry
industry’s leader for sustainability initia- tives commented: “The EPDs and life cycle analysis reports will help natural stone to be recognized as a lower-carbon building material. We’re also glad to be able to pro- vide this transparency to help design teams accomplish their green building goals.” Ralph Morgan, Director of Environment and Sustainability for Polycor agreed: “The importance of having EPDs for the natural stone industry can’t be overstated. The terms ‘natural’ and ‘environmentally sustainable’ do not mean the same thing. We now have the independent data to show how using natural stone in projects can provide lower embodied carbon options, providing the building community with the information they want and need.”
Eighteen NSI members participated by contributing their lifecycle data. These members can now use these EPDs to repre- sent their products for green building proj- ects. All NSI members can use the HPDs to represent their products. NSI would like to thank the following companies for their participation:
The Natural Stone Institute has pub- lished industry-wide ISO Type III environmental declarations, also called environmental product declarations (EPDs), for three applications of natural dimension stone: Cladding, Flooring/ Paving, and Countertops. Also pub- lished are 13 Health Product Declarations (HPDs) for natural stone found in 15 MasterFormat® classifications.
An EPD is an independently verified and registered document that quantifies envi- ronmental information on the life cycle of a product to enable comparisons between products fulfilling the same function.
These EPDs are cradle to grave in scope to define the environmental impacts through- out the entire life cycle, including quar- rying, fabrication, installation, care and maintenance, and disposal. HPDs provide design teams and owners greater trans- parency of material ingredients and their potential human health impacts. Through a special exception for geological materials, NSI published declarations representative of common stone types used in the dimen- sion stone industry, including granite, mar- ble, quartzite, and limestone.
Sarah B Gregg, Marketing Director for the Natural Stone Institute and the
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