AIA Materials Pledge Enables Architects, Designers to Create Spaces Where People and Natural Systems Thrive

To meet the challenge and opportunity of materials sustainability, AIA has been working with mindful MATERIALS — a longtime collaborator that emerged from AIA member-led architecture firms — to develop a Common Materials Framework as a critical pathway to providing the clarity and consensus around sustainable materials that can provide a consistent definition for materials with benchmarks that span the five topics of the Materials Pledge statement goals for the entire industry.

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mindful Materials + Material Bank: simplifying the sampling of healthier, more sustainable products

“HKS is thrilled about the partnership of mindful Materials and Material Bank. It is an effective data driven partnership combining purpose and innovation. We use both tools extensively and the shared platforms will enable us to make better informed material selection decisions faster for our clients, our communities, and the earth.”

Rand Ekman, HKS Principal and Chief Sustainability Officer.

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