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.
Download Standard Source Sustainable Stone
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.
