How to Use the Standard

Points for using certified quarries and fabrication facilities are available through LEED, Living Building Challenge, and other green building schemes. Learn details for obtaining these credits and other ways to specify responsible stone sourcing in your projects.

 

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LEED

Potential credits for using natural stone materials:

Transparency

v4.0 / v4.1 Materials and Resources Building Product Disclosure and Optimization - Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)
v4.0 / v4.1 Materials and Resources Building Product Disclosure and Optimization - Material Ingredients
v5 Materials Materials Transparency and Optimization

Health & Wellness

v4.0 / v4.1 Indoor Environmental Quality Low-Emitting Materials
V4.0 / 4.1 Innovation Innovation: Designing with Nature, Biophilic Design for the Indoor Environment
v5 Indoor Environmental Quality Occupant Experience

Responsible Industry

v4.0 / v4.1 Materials and Resources Building Product Disclosure and Optimization - Sourcing of Raw Materials
v5 Materials Responsible Sourcing of Materials

Material Sourcing

v4.0 / v4.1 Materials and Resources Construction and Demolition Waste Management
v4.0 / v4.1 Materials and Resources Building Life-Cycle Impact Reduction
v5 Materials Building & Materials Reuse

Embodied Carbon

v5 Materials Embodied Carbon Reduction and Disclosure

 

Living Building Challenge

Under the Materials petal of the Living Building Challenge, the Responsible Industry imperative requires certification for stone products under the Natural Stone Sustainability Standard – ANSI/NSI 373 by quarries and/or manufacturers of all dimension stone products used within the project.

 

Specification Language

Include a requirement for sourcing sustainably produced stone in your projects.

  • Stone detailed in this section must be certified to the ANSI/NSI 373 Sustainable Production of Natural Dimension Stone standard.
  • Minimum __% of permanently installed building products are sourced from companies who have third-party certified to a multi-attribute sustainability standard and/or have an EPD.

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