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Widely regarded throughout the building industry as a preferred sustainability standard, Cradle to Cradle Certified gives architects fact-based, at-a-glance assurance that EQUITONE’s facade materials meet some of the world’s most rigorous sustainability standards. Today, all EQUITONE fibre cement facade materials are Cradle to Cradle Certified at the Bronze level.
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The materials we use in our built environment today have a direct impact on the health and well-being of people and our planet now – and in the future. Cradle to Cradle Certified is one way building material suppliers and architects alike can ensure that the materials and products we make and use today are designed to enable a safe, equitable, and sustainable tomorrow.
Cradle to Cradle Certified is a holistic, multi-attribute product standard. The certification promotes a circular approach to making materials and products using ingredients that are safe and healthy for people and planet, manufactured responsibly, and designed to enable a circular economy.
Cradle to Cradle Certified gives EQUITONE a pathway for transforming our 2030 ambitions for zero waste to landfill, circular design, and the lightest possible environmental impact into meaningful actions. Cradle to Cradle certification requirements offer a world-class framework of best practices that reflect our own values, including continuous improvement, innovation and collaboration across the value chain.
Even better, the holistic nature of Cradle to Cradle Certified makes it easy for architects, designers, and other building professionals to immediately see how our materials can help them achieve their own ambitions for sustainability, circularity and green building.
Cradle to Cradle Certified is one of the most ambitious science-based third-party sustainability standards. Certification is awarded based upon independent assessment of a product or material according to five critical categories of sustainability performance:
Material Health: the ingredients used are verified as safe for humans and the environment
Product Circularity (Material Reutilization*): the material is designed to enable a circular economy through regenerative ingredients and process design
Clean Air & Carbon (Renewable Energy and Carbon Management*): the material is made in ways that help protect clean air, promote renewable energy, and reduce harmful emissions
Water & Soil Stewardship (Water Stewardship*): the material is made in ways that safeguard clean water and healthy soils
Social Fairness: the material is made in ways that respect human rights and contribute to a fair and equitable society
Certification is achieved based upon ascending levels of performance, from Basic** to Platinum. To achieve certification, a material receives a rating (from Basic to Platinum) in each category, then full certification is awarded to the material’s lowest performance rating.
All EQUITONE fibre cement facade materials are Cradle to Cradle Certified at the Bronze level according to version 3.1 of the Cradle to Cradle Certified Product Standard.
Our materials are already earning performance ratings of Silver for Material Reutilization and Social Fairness, and we’re already working hard to accelerate advancements in the carbon, water and energy footprint of our operations.
As part of our quest to ensure we are equipping architects with the best possible materials for achieving their own circularity and green building ambitions, EQUITONE is already implementing a growing number of sustainability and circularity initiatives in the production of our Cradle to Cradle Certified products.