Stego Sustainability Report

Holistically sustainable building products can often contribute to improved durability, indoor air quality, and performance of buildings.

INDUSTRY DRIVERS

Growing Demand for Holistically Sustainable Products Within the built environment, project team members increasingly want to use “bet ter” building products. This desire has led to an evolving understanding within the design and construction industry of how products can help contribute to ambitious sustainability goals. With a better understanding of the role building products play in a sustainable built environment, one outcome is that single attribute benchmarks (like recycled con tent or regional production) are not the best metrics to meet project goals. Instead, sustainable design and construction must apply a lens with a broader perspective of a product’s overall impacts. “Holistically sustainable building products”, those that are engineered, transparently reported, benchmarked, and optimized to maximize positive impacts and reduce the negative, must become the preferred choice.

This is how we think of “better” product choices.

Holistically sustainable building products can contribute to improved durability, in door air quality, and performance of buildings. This, in turn, improves human and environmental health. Furthermore, this holistic perspective also considers the social and environmental responsibility of the company (manufacturer) behind the products.

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SUSTAINABILITY REPORT | 2023

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INTRODUCTION

CREATING BETTER SYSTEMS

OUR RESPONSIBILITY