How The Natural Dimension Stone Sustainability Standard can Assist Green Building Projects
This course highlights how the dimension stone sustainability standard (ANSI/NSC 373) can assist projects with sustainability goals. The standard examines and verifies through a third party, numerous areas of stone production such as: water usage, custody and transportation, site and plant management, land reclamation, corporate governance, energy, waste, chemicals, worker health and safety and innovation credits. It also includes a companion Chain of Custody (COC) program, which ensures traceability of certified stone from the quarry to processing and throughout the supply chain and ultimately to their journeys end.
Speaker: Bill Eubank from Coldspring
Lunch generously sponsored by Coldspring
Meeting space sponsored by City of Charlottesville
When:
February 13th, noon to 1:00pm (lunch provided)
Register for Lunch Here!
Where:
City Space
100 5th Street, NE, Downtown Mall, Charlottesville, VA

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