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- Low carbon and healthy material selection made understandable
- Live, up-to-date transparency documents, thousands of brands
- Real-time AIA Material Pledge & LEED v5 status reports
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to get the right products into Projects and Libraries.
For Building Product Manufacturers
It's the only high-performance product selection, specification & construction intelligence solution that gets your products into Projects and Libraries – and you'll know about it.
For Architects, Engineers, Contractors, and Owners
It operationalizes product selection and closes the gaps in workflow, data and tools between each stage – from design to specification, planning, building and management – revolutionizing the end-to-end process for teams.
The Transparency Catalog is revolutionizing high-performance building product selection, specification and procurement by radically simplifying the delivery of product transparency information.
Product transparency documents for 10s of thousands of products:
EPDs | Material ingredient disclosures | Low-emitting material certifications
2,360+
Manufacturers &
industry associations
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MasterFormat®
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1070+
MasterFormat®
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Make your investments in product transparency pay off.
Find out how to get your brand and products in front of the most targeted & motivated AECOs and dramatically improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your sales, marketing and education efforts.
Partners in embodied carbon, material health, circularity, safety, specifications, AIA & LEED CEUs, BIM and material samples
Our commitment to architects, engineers, construction, owners (AECOs)
Free access to the most comprehensive, curated and continually updated source of building & construction products for high performance, low embodied carbon buildings – organized by MasterFormat® section.
You'll find EVERY building product manufacturer anywhere in the world making products available in N. America, investing in product transparency.
20+ new brands added monthly as each creates EPDs or material disclosures for the first time.
See the thousands of brands investing in product transparency
Comprehensive, ethically-sourced transparency content, made understandable
Transparency Catalog content is ethically sourced by our data team through human-driven partnerships and research, with proper consent and attribution, not through AI extraction from other organizations' websites.
Includes every:
- EPD program operator in North America, all EPD types: product-specific, industry average and optimized for LEED v4 and v5
- Material ingredient disclosure programs eligible for rating systems credits
- Low VOC-emitting material certification programs eligible for rating systems credits
Filter by each green building rating system transparency credit. Find products and documents that contribute to each of the EPD and materials credits that reward transparency. Learn more.
Best user experience to simplify complexity
No more wondering which documents go with which product. Unique product table design displays EVERY product with all the transparency documents for that product.
In-a-glance results make it easy to evaluate a lot of MFRs and products quickly. Using text, graphics and handy tooltips to explain each document type, we make transparency more understandable and meaningful to help make better informed decisions.
Do more in 1 click.
Powerful CSI MasterFormat® filtering. Displays EVERY brand and its products with transparency documents in each division and section, making it possible to do in seconds what has taken hours, days or couldn't be done at all – especially when you need three equivalent options.
Now it's even easier to integrate transparency into your organization's spec and basis of design product libraries and get sample, specification, quote & submittal help from manufacturers when you need it.
Custom EC3 API simplifies finding lower embodied carbon products
The first product data provider to partner with Building Transparency & the EC3 tool in 2019. We collaborated to create a custom API to provide simple, in-a-glance comparative results.
A 50-page methodology document in a tool tip. The methodology is an innovation in comparing embodied carbon impacts. The tooltip provides a description of the process and key to the visual results with interpretation guidance.
Every EPD in EC3 links back to the MFR's Transparency Catalog listing to find the products, transparency documentation and contact information for you to select, specify and procure lower embodied carbon materials.
The first program operator (PO) to partner with Building Transparency & the EC3 tool and one of only a few POs to include publishing your EPDs in EC3 as part of our EPD delivery services.
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How filter and/or search works
MasterFormat® filtering will ALWAYS give you results. We add division and section numbers only when there are products or disclosures.
Search looks at names: MasterFormat division and section (not numbers), brand, product type and product.
For best results
1. Use MasterFormat filtering when you want to reliably find all MFRs in a division and section. You do NOT need to use the section pulldown to get results. Use it when you know specifically the section you want info on, fast.
2. Use Search when you're not sure which MasterFormat division/section includes the products you're looking for.
- Searching by product type is quick, but may not always reliably return results that are as comprehensive as MasterFormat filtering.
- Searching on a MFR name will return their list of products and/or disclosures.
- Featured Brand and Standard listings include products, all disclosures, contact info, communication tools and more. You’ll find these MFRs at the top of search results.
- Free listings include names of disclosures and links to EPDs and/or material disclosures, but no product or other info. Use the handy email link to recommend the MFR create a Standard listing. People specify products with disclosures, not just disclosures.
3. Use MasterFormat filtering AND search when you want to further parameterize your results. For example, selecting a MasterFormat division and/or section plus a company name will show you all the products from that MFR in that division, fast.
4. Be sure to go the MFR’s listing page to find all their products, specs, contact, other info and communication tools. On the:
- Front page: click ‘See ALL brands at a glance’ or scroll down to find ALL the brands in North America investing in product transparency.
- Search results page: Click a MFR’s name and go to All brands at a glance and select a letter range (# A–B C–D, etc…); browse the section and click on the brands you know, and be sure to investigate the ones you don’t know yet.
Using filter and/or search on results page
There are more filters available on the results page. You can use as many as you like, IN ANY ORDER, to find brands and products the way you want.
For example, if you are working on a:
- Specification – Use the Masterformat section selector to find 3 MFRs with equivalent products.
- LEED or Living Building Challenge project – Use the rating systems filter first to select the transparency credits you want to earn.
- California public works project – Use the Buy Clean CA Act filter to find all MFRs with conformant EPDs for eligible materials.
Trouble getting results? Clear the filters to make sure one isn't accidentally still turned on and limiting your results.
We're making it super easy to find, specify and procure greener and healthier products for high performance building projects — and reward manufacturers for making them.
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You can now get started using the Transparency Catalog, the leading building & construction products platform for high performance, low embodied carbon buildings.