December 10, 2009
In partnership with the University of Tennessee, the Marble Institute of America, the Building Stone Institute, and the rest of the natural stone industry are developing an independent life-cycle analysis for stone products, initiating industry-wide solutions to reduce life-cycle impacts, and developing mechanisms for communicating environmental performance to the green building market. Once these missions are met, the group will utilize life-cycle assessment to study impacts over stone’s lifetime and in comparison to other building materials and, perhaps most importantly, will work to create sustainability guidelines on a global basis.
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