ecoScorecard is a free, web-based technology platform that gives product manufacturers the ability to provide environmental information and sustainability documentation about products for all major third-party rating systems.

“Herman Miller realizes that sustainability is a shared responsibility,” said Martin Flaherty, president of ecoScorecard. “By simplifying the rating systems documentation process and identifying product environmental metrics, the ecoScorecard tool allows Herman Miller and product specifiers to work together to achieve sustainability goals.”

Herman Miller’s ecoScorecard site features a training video featuring Mary Kathryn German, Herman Miller A+D representative in Atlanta. Commenting on the new capability, Mary Kathryn notes, “Designers spend hours, if not weeks, pulling together LEED documentation. Now, designers and architects can go directly to our site, access ecoScorecard and start researching our green product offerings, perform calculations and produce LEED documentation in a matter of minutes.”

Paul Murray, Director of Environment, Health and Safety at Herman Miller, added, “As a founding member of the US Green Building Council, Herman Miller has always believed anything we can do to help make green building easier for everyone is a good thing. While our current LEED summary sheets provide the required information to manually calculate and submit a project to the USGBC, we recognize it is a time consuming effort. Herman Miller chose ecoScorecard to make the process easier and we hope that users find it a much more empowering experience.”

About Herman Miller, Inc.
Herman Miller works for a better world around you—with inventive designs, technologies and related services that improve the human experience wherever people work, heal, learn, and live. Its curiosity, ingenuity, and design excellence create award-winning products and services, resulting in more than $1.6 billion in revenue in fiscal 2009. Innovative business practices and a commitment to social responsibility have also established Herman Miller as a recognized global company. In 2010, Herman Miller was again cited by FORTUNE as the “Most Admired” in its industry and among the “100 Best Companies to Work For” in America, while Fast Company has named Herman Miller among its 2010 “Innovation All-Stars.” Herman Miller trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol MLHR and has been listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index since 2004. For more information visit www.hermanmiller.com

About ecoScorecard
ecoScorecard provides product specifiers the ability to search, evaluate and document products based on environmental characteristics. The program does the calculations necessary for rating systems such as LEED, GGHC Labs 21, CHPS, and the NAHB Green Home Building Guidelines and includes and accounts for other third-party product certifications. The tool produces the product documentation necessary for inclusion in the submission process. ecoScorecard is free to users and is supported by manufacturers interested in making the specification of green products easier for customers and salespeople. For more information, visit www.ecoscorecard.com.

Media Contact: Reva Revis, ecoScorecard reva@ecoscorecard.com 312.929.5025

Designers, builders, contractors and remodelers will now have access to a wide range of information about how products from almost 3000 SCS-certified manufacturers meet LEED and other ratings systems’ requirements. ecoScorecard users simply plug products into their online project tracker and the tool provides meaningful information about credits for green building rating systems.

SCS certifies the broadest array of green building products of any certifier, making this partnership a boon to ecoScorecard users. SCS certified products are found in most green building projects, earning LEED and other credits through Forest Stewardship Council, environmentally preferable products, indoor air quality, recycled content, and level™ furniture sustainability certification.

“Specifiers who choose SCS certified products will soon have ecoScorecard enabled data that supports their documentation needs,” explained Martin Flaherty, president of ecoScorecard.

“This collaboration enhances the value of SCS certification for our clients and shares the outstanding performance of their products with building designers and other specifiers looking for green building components,” explained Michael Wolfe, Director of Business Development, SCS. “ecoScorecard is an excellent platform to deliver SCS certification data to those users.”

About ecoScorecard
Introduced in 2007, ecoScorecard provides product specifiers with the ability to search and evaluate products based on environmental characteristics. The program does the calculations necessary for rating systems such as LEED, GGHC Labs 21, CHPS, and the NAHB Green Home Building Guidelines. The tool also produces the product documentation necessary for inclusion in the submission process.
www.ecoscorecard.com

About Scientific Certification Systems:
Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) is a global leader in independent environmental, sustainability, food quality and food purity certification. For more than 25 years, SCS has developed internationally recognized standards and certification programs in pursuit of the highest level of environmental performance and social accountability. Many certifications are based on innovative life cycle assessment methodology. SCS certifications recognize accomplishments in greenhouse gas inventories and offsets, agricultural production, food processing and handling, forestry, fisheries, flowers and plants, energy, green building, product manufacturing and corporate social responsibility.
www.SCScertified.com

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Media Contacts:

Rebecca Graham, SCS
rgraham@scscertified.com 510.452.8020

Reva Revis, ecoScorecard
reva@ecoscorecard.com 312.929.5025

“Building product manufacturers are realizing the competitive advantages to providing customers with their products’ environmental attributes and third-party rating system documentation,” explained Martin Flaherty, president of ecoScorecard. “And now GAF joins a rapidly expanding list of savvy product manufacturers that are turning to the ecoScorecard platform to help them effectively and efficiently provide this vital product information.”

About GAF Materials Corporation:

GAF Materials Corporation has grown to become the largest roofing and ventilation manufacturer in North America, with sales of nearly $3 billion annually. Its success is driven by a commitment to provide property owners and specifiers with their best and safest choice in roofing, and by helping supportive contractors and distributors to build their businesses and avoid hassles. Its products include a comprehensive portfolio of steep-slope roofing systems (marketed under the GAF-Elk brand) and low-slope roofing systems (marketed under the GAF brand). These products are supported by an extensive national network of factory-certified contractors. The Company also supports the industry through CARE, the Center for the Advancement of Roofing Excellence. CARE’s mission is to help professional contractors and distributors to build their businesses through sales and management education, and to provide product and installation training to contractors, distributors, architects, property owners, and related industry personnel. Since its inception, CARE has provided education to over 100,000 professionals.

For more information, visit http://ecoscorecard.com/.

“GAF Materials Corporation wants to make it easier for our customers to evaluate the environmental attributes of our products,” explained Helene Hardy Pierce, Vice President of Technical Services with GAF. “As a web-based technology platform, ecoScorecard enables our customers to quickly and easily access environmental information about our products that they need to do their jobs.”

Introduced in 2007, ecoScorecard provides product specifiers with the ability to search and evaluate products based on environmental characteristics. The program does the calculations necessary for rating systems such as LEED, GGHC Labs 21, CHPS, and the NAHB Green Home Building Guidelines and includes and accounts for other third-party product certifications. The tool also produces the product documentation necessary for inclusion in the submission process.

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Media Contacts:
Reva Revis, ecoScorecard
reva@ecoscorecard.com

Arlene Marks, GAF Materials Corporation
amarks@gaf.com

LEED is a registered trademark of the U.S. Green Building Council

This partnership will enable Dinero Solution customers the ability to access the environmental expertise of the ecoScorecard team on a project basis. “The ecoScorecard team has consulted to the US Green Building Council, The Coca-Cola Company, AFLAC, Shaw Industries, Bosch and others on practical solutions around corporate sustainability for more than 10 years” said Chris Goeckel president of Dinero Solutions. “Their tactical focus is vastly different from other firms in their field. Similar to our business practices, this team delivers highly focused, executable plans that affect organizational and behavioral change.”

“With the rise of sustainability, green building and programs like LEED affecting how companies operate, our services including the ecoScorecard software product provides an immediate and quantifiable links between green products, operational activities and cost benefit analysis” said Martin Flaherty, president of ecoScorecard. “Providing our services in combination with Dinero Solutions offerings can help demystify the issue of sustainability and quantify the actions needed to operationalize green thinking.”

About Dinero Solutions

Dinero Solutions, headquartered in Duluth, Georgia, is a recognized leader in the Southeast for providing innovative Oracle enterprise professional services to mid-market and Fortune 1000 companies. Dinero Solutions has helped Utility, Technology, Financial Services, and Retail companies in over 30 states within the US and 12 countries around the world implement individual modules and/or the full suite of Oracle Applications to build a competitive business advantage. Dinero is also a certified Oracle “On- Demand” hosting solution provider. For more information about Dinero, please visit: www.dinerosolutions.com.

About ecoScorecard

ecoScorecard provides product specifiers with the ability to search and evaluate products based on environmental characteristics. The program does the calculations necessary for rating systems such as LEED, GGHC Labs 21, CHPS, and the NAHB Green Home Building Guidelines and includes and accounts for other third-party product certifications. The tool also produces the product documentation necessary for inclusion in the submission process. ecoScorecard is free to users and is supported by manufacturers interested in making the specification of green products easier for customers and salespeople. Formoreinformation,visit www.ecoscorecard.com.

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Media Contact: Reva Revis, ecoScorecard reva@ecoscorecard.com 312.929.5025

And throughout the course of the show, third party rating services stopped by to discuss ways to partner with us. In effect, the ecoScorecard software is being viewed as an enabler to help get green building done.

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The new integration will enable users to easily access environmental product attributes and rating system calculations for ecoScorecard enabled products that are in the Google 3D Warehouse, resulting in faster and more accurate rating system documentation for Google SketchUp users.

“The BIM process is built on the concept of coordinated information, and ecoScorecard takes that process a step further by providing an immediate to link to environmental product attributes and rating system calculations,” said Martin Flaherty, president of ecoScorecard. “Users can now pull data from ecoScorecard enabled products directly into the model and use that information throughout the design process.”

Introduced in 2007, ecoScorecard provides product specifiers with the ability to search and evaluate products based on environmental characteristics. The program does the calculations necessary for rating systems such as LEED, GGHC Labs 21, CHPS, and the NAHB Green Home Building Guidelines and includes and accounts for other third-party product certifications. The tool also produces the product documentation necessary for inclusion in the submission process. ecoScorecard is free to users and is supported by manufacturers interested in making the specification of green products easier for both their customers and their salespeople.

“Our original mission for ecoScorecard was to help make the specification of green products easier, and that has not changed,” explained Paul Shahriari, CEO of ecoScorecard. “Now, parallel to the growth of the green building movement, BIM is changing the entire building process. Never before has there been a single system that could provide context to all parties thinking about building. And the ecoScorecard technology platform is perfectly poised to link environmental product attributes and rating systems to BIM tools.”

Mr. Shahriari explained that ecoScorecard’s initial BIM integration was designed for Google SketchUp because of the accessibility and popularity of a Google tool. Plug-ins for other BIM tools such as Revit are slated for release next year.

For more information, visit http://ecoscorecard.com/.

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Media Contact: Reva Revis, ecoScorecard
reva@ecoscorecard.com 312.929.5025

LEED is a registered trademark of the U.S. Green Building Council
Google SketchUp is a registered trademarks of Google, Inc.
Revit is a registered trademark of Autodesk, Inc.

“General Casework wants to make it easier for architects, designers and other product specifiers to evaluate the environmental attributes of our products,” explained Steve Johnson, president of General Casework. “That’s why our products are ecoScorecard enabled and available in Google’s 3D Warehouse.”

ecoScorecard’s new integration will enable users to easily access environmental product attributes and rating system calculations for ecoScorecard enabled products that are in the Google 3D Warehouse, resulting in faster and more accurate rating system documentation for Google SketchUp users.

“Both ecoScorecard and General Casework share a common goal: to make green building easier,” explained Martin Flaherty, president of ecoScorecard. “And we’re delighted to have the opportunity to highlight General Casework’s products as we demonstrate the ecoScorecard platform and Google SketchUp plug-in at Greenbuild.”

About ecoScorecard
Introduced in 2007, ecoScorecard provides product specifiers with the ability to search and evaluate products based on environmental characteristics. The program does the calculations necessary for rating systems such as LEED, GGHC Labs 21, CHPS, and the NAHB Green Home Building Guidelines and includes and accounts for other third-party product certifications. The tool also produces the product documentation necessary for inclusion in the submission process. ecoScorecard is free to users and is supported by manufacturers interested in making the specification of green products easier for customers and salespeople.

About General Casework:
Based in Denver, General Casework builds environmentally-friendly frameless cabinets using materials that contain no added urea formaldehyde (NAUF) and come from plants that are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). These forests are monitored so that only a sustainable amount of wood is harvested, plus new trees are planted to regenerate the land for future generations to enjoy and harvest. Product lines include 4d Casework, for the educational and healthcare markets, and boks, a contemporary European-styled line of kitchen and bath for the residential market. Although General Casework products are available nationally, the company markets its products to specifiers within a 500 mile radius of its Denver facility in order to focus on service and more sustainable materials supply and distribution.

Media contacts:
General Casework: Steve Johnson, (303) 373-2106 ext. 301, sjohnson@generalcasework.com
ecoScorecard: Reva Revis (312) 929-5025, reva@ecoscorecard.com

Brattleboro, VT (May 18, 2009)—BuildingGreen LLC, publisher of the GreenSpec® Directory and Environmental Building News™ today announced a partnership with ecoScorecard℠, an Atlanta-based organization advancing green building by organizing and simplifying the product evaluation and documentation for important environmental rating systems.

This partnership pairs a respected and independent source of green building information with a platform that enhances the usefulness of green product information. The GreenSpec Directory helps the green building community find sustainable products, while ecoScorecard offers an effective way to identify and evaluate products against every significant environmental rating system. ecoScorecard also provides documentation of third-party certification for the products in its database.

“The ecoScorecard platform provides a deeper level of functionality to our GreenSpec Directory,” explained Nadav Malin, President of BuildingGreen. “The value for our clients is having all of this information in one place.”

BuildingGreen’s online GreenSpec Directory will provide links to ecoScorecard sites; likewise, ecoScorecard will identify manufacturer’s products that are also listed in the GreenSpec Directory.

“We’ve built a system that makes product evaluation easier” said Martin Flaherty, President of ecoScorecard. ”And we’re excited to partner with BuildingGreen to offer ecoScorecard to their committed audience of green builders and product manufacturers.”

“We’d like to see manufacturers that are truly committed to sustainability work together to help simplify the product evaluation process for the architecture and design community, through platforms like ecoScorecard or other means. We need to eliminate the confusion around green building products,” said Malin, “and today BuildingGreen is taking that step with ecoScorecard.”

For more information, visit http://ecoscorecard.com/.

About BuildingGreen

BuildingGreen, www.BuildingGreen.com, has provided the building industry with quality information on sustainable design and construction since its founding in 1985. It is headquartered in Brattleboro, Vermont. Its publications include Environmental Building News; the GreenSpec Directory; the residential design and construction resource GreenBuildingAdvisor.com; and the integrated, online BuildingGreen Suite. For information, visit www.BuildingGreen.com or call 802-257-7300.

About ecoScorecard

ecoScorecard℠ is a Web-based tool that supports a manufacturer’s web site by cataloging its green products and providing architects and designers with the ability to evaluate each product based on its environmental characteristics. ecoScorecardSM does the calculations necessary for six environmental rating systems; (LEED, GGHC, Labs 21, CHPS, NAHB, Re:Green and third-party certifications) and produces the product documentation in a saved project folder or as a PDF necessary for inclusion in the submission process. For additional information visit ecoScorecard℠ or call 866.527.0225.

Boston, GA, November 19, 2008— Launched at Greenbuild one year ago, ecoScorecard returns to the conference with 12 new manufacturers on board and a track record of success helping architects and designers identify and spec environmentally-sensitive products and materials.

Using a system of embedded algorithms, ecoScorecard lets manufacturers catalogue their green products and provide architects with the ability to search and evaluate each product based on its environmental characteristics. The program does the calculations necessary for 5 rating systems; LEED, GGHC Labs, CHPS, NAHB and third-party certifications; and produces the product documentation necessary for inclusion in the submission process.

Manufacturers new to the site include flooring providers Azrock, Bigelow, Bolyu, Cambridge, Designweave, Karastan, LEES, Patcraft, Roppe, Shaw Contract and Shaw Hospitality; furniture manufacturers el and HBF; wallcoverings by Novawall and textiles from HBF Textiles.  They join Armstrong,  J&J / Invision,  and Kirei, among others, who have been on the site since its inception.

“We have had so much positive feedback from both manufacturers and architects who had been frustrated in the past by the amount of time and research required to investigate and spec green products,” said Martin Flaherty, founding partner, Viridity Inc., the Atlanta-based company that launched ecoScorecard. “We have responded by making upgrades to the site, adding more manufacturers and incorporating the specs of certification programs as they emerge and change.”

The algorithms for ecoScorecard were designed by Chief Technology Officer, David Carlson.  “We realized that there was a critical need in the marketplace to bridge the information gap simply and inexpensively. So we created ecoScorecard for manufacturers to do just that.”

ecoScorecard is free for architects and designers to use and is paid for by manufacturers interested in displaying their products’ environmental attributes more simply.

ecoScorecard will be exhibiting at USGBC’s Green Build this year. ecoScorescard’s booth 2200, will feature group as well as individual demonstrations.

About ecoScorecard

ecoScorecard is a web-based tool that supports a manufacturer’s web site by cataloging its 
green products and providing architects and designers with the ability to evaluate each product based on its environmental characteristics. Through embedded algorithms, the program does the calculations necessary for 5 environmental rating systems; (LEED, GGHC Labs, CHPS, NAHB and third-party certifications) and produces the product documentation in a saved project folder or as a PDF necessary for inclusion in the submission process. www.ecoscorecard.com or 866.527.0225

About Viridity

Viridity is a consultancy that helps executive management teams develop a full circle view of environmental standards. Viridity delivers a clear analysis of what has to be done to fulfill the needs of the green consumer and a plan to make the analysis real. Viridity, LLC. www.viridityinc.com or  866.527.0225

The ecoScorecard founders work in the field of sustainability and bring their perspectives on rating systems, the green building movement as well random thoughts to the discussion. 

About ecoScorecard

ecoScorecard is a web-based tool that supports a manufacturer’s web site by cataloging its green products and providing architects and designers with the ability to evaluate each product based on its environmental characteristics. Through embedded algorithms, the program does the calculations necessary for leading environmental rating systems; (LEED, GGHC Labs, CHPS, NAHB and third-party certifications) and produces the product documentation in a saved project folder or as a PDF necessary for inclusion in the submission process. www.ecoscorecard.com or 866.527.0225