Mar 11 2010
GreenWizard, LLC – a web-based expert system that allows architects, engineers, and contractors to a cross-search, compare, and document products for LEED commercial construction – today announced that it has entered into a business alliance with The Institute for Market Transformation to Sustainability (MTS) and its SMaRT Sustainable Product Standard, which has been approved for Federal Government Purchasing Preference and LEED credits.
The Washington, DC-based Institute for Market Transformation to Sustainability is comprised of selected manufacturers, leading environmental groups, and key state and local governments which have come together to achieve a sustainable world through transformation of the way products are designed, made, and sold.
Together, GreenWizard and MTS will work to solve issues relating to the evaluation of sustainable building materials. Indeed, building product manufacturers (BPMs) can already access a web-based database tool to post free green product listings in GreenWizard’s free public database. But now, with this business alliance, GreenWizard will work with MTS to identify, introduce, and facilitate the loading of data from MTS’ members companies into the GreenWizard database. To date, more than 650 manufacturers are already included in GreenWizard’s platform including Georgia Pacific, Sherwin Williams, and Milliken.
Through the business alliance announced today, GreenWizard will also promote the SMaRT consensus sustainable product standard and SMaRT Certified Products. The objective of the SMaRT standard is to provide substantial global benefits for the world’s products through environmental, social, and economic criteria which promote sustainability, business benefits, social equity, reuse, and climate pollution reductions.
“GreenWizard has been eager to form partnerships with the leading product-evaluation organizations in the green building and sustainable sector,” said GreenWizard’s Adam Bernholz. “We have found in MTS an organization that sees how sustainable building can very practically foster change on a societal, even global, scale. Given our aspirations, we saw a natural fit, and we couldn’t be happier for this new relationship.”
“We could not be more pleased with our alliance with GreenWizard. Our organization and its members are at the forefront of the move to a sustainable built environment. GreenWizard provides the tools that allow the Architecture and Design community to readily find and document those products that are going to provide the most sustainable benefit to a given project,” added Mike Italiano, MTS President and CEO, and a Founder of USGBC and its associated LEED standard.
Source: http://www.GreenWizard.com