BuildingGreen and ecoScorecard Announce Partnership

published May 19, 2009

Comprehensive product platform helps architects and designers evaluate environmental attributes of building products

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.