Alphabet Soup: Making Sense Of The Material Transparency Movement  

How do we make sense of it all? Health Product Declaration, Cradle to Cradle, Pharos Library, GreenScreen, Environmental Product Declaration, Living Building Challenge, and Declare are just a few of the main programs that are driving transparency in the building product marketplace. Monica Miller Brown, Sustainable Design Manager, thyssenkrupp Elevator Americas, will clear up the alphabet soup that is the material transparency movement and how each program works. We will talk about how each program works and its advantages. Writing specifications that allow you to drive the material transparency movement as a designer, builder or specifier will be covered, as well as how these programs can help you earn points in LEED version 4. Lunch will be provided so reservations are essential. This presentation is registered for both AIA Learning Units and GBCI hours. Speaker : Monica Miller Brown studied to become a landscape architect, but her roots in sustainability go way back: “I am fourth-generation farmer so protecting natural resources is engrained in me.” The move from landscape architect to Sustainable Design Manager was a natural one. Both require problem solving on a site and planning scale in order to incorporate the efficient utilization of resources. “I just shifted from the outside to the inside,” Monica explains. She has both LEED AP BD+C O+M and WELL AP credentials.

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