Builder Magazine: Sustainability is a vital part of home builders’ vocabulary in 2023. But how do builders work to shorten and improve the supply chain to benefit everyone involved?
Kathleen Hetrick, a sustainability engineer with Buro Happold, is one of the authors of "The Regenerative Materials Movement: Dispatches from Practitioners, Researchers, and Advocates." She spoke to BUILDER about supply chain considerations, unsafe materials in the home, and advocating for a net-zero supply chain.
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Supply chains in general are certainly a concept that finds itself shrouded in a lot of mystery. It’s not surprising to me that the article mentions that most of the sustainability concepts that get talked about a lot tend to be exclusively focused on the occupant of the house. I thought it was really interesting how the interviewee mentioned that rather than a sort of “greenwashing” situation taking place, we simply just don’t know everything about every material. It wasn’t that long ago that asbestos and lead were super commonly used materials in home construction. I had never heard of the “Red List” before reading this article, and I think it’s pretty cool that there is that developing database sharing information about what materials to avoid in order to increase safety in residential housing. I also thought it was really interesting how the interviewee mentioned another commonly used material, PVC, and discussed how it’s associated with formaldehyde during it’s creation and supply process, as I had not heard that before.
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