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Better Building Products: Intro to Declare + The Living Product Challenge
Designers aim to make informed decisions and put the best products into their buildings. Manufacturers aim to provide the products that best meet the designer’s needs at a competitive price. We are all in alignment, yet it remains a challenge to get the best products into our buildings –why?
The International Living Future Institute (ILFI) provides a conduit for transparent and holistic product data with its Declare Label and outlines a framework for a holistic manufacturing approach through the Living Product Challenge (LPC).
Join Built Environment + The Living Future Community for two introductory trainings by ILFI staff on The Declare Label and its uses for designers in tandem with an introduction to the LPC and what it takes for manufacturers to obtain a label, and beyond.
The two brief training sessions will be followed by a facilitated community dialogue, bringing forward the transparency perspective and barriers of both audiences.
Learning Objectives
Gain a deeper understanding of the Declare program, including key features of the updated label.
Be able to discuss how Declare benefits customers, manufacturers, and designers.
Identify key aspects of the Living Product Challenge Certification.
Have a deeper understanding of the benefits of LPC-certified products
Background photo by Adam Birkett on Unsplash.
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Vice President, AEW’s Architecture & Engineering group
Interior Designer, Jacobs, Boston
Senior Vice President, Market Transformation and Development U.S. Green Building Council
AIA LEED AP BD+C | Senior Associate, Gensler Boston 
LEED Fellow, WELL AP | Founder and Principal, Ecoworks Studio
LEED AP BD+C | Environmental Sustainability Manager, Armstrong World Industries
Sustainability Director, Steven Winter Associates
Assistant Professor of Exposure Science | Director of the Healthy Buildings program
Managing Director, Harvard University Office for Sustainability
Principal & Director of Certifications and Consulting, Epsten Group, Inc.
Vice President of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Jamestown
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Associate Principal, BuroHappold Engineering
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Founder and President, Board of the Healthy Building Network
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Principal, Integrated Ecostrategy
Senior Vice President, International WELL Building Institute
AIA, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP
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FAIA, LEED Fellow, Long Green Specs
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