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Digital Product Passports Are Not the End State: Construction Teams Need Usable Material Data Now
Digital Product Passports can help carry product information, but construction teams need material data that works inside BoQs, BIM, procurement, verification and handover workflows.
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From PAS 2080 to Procurement: Why Carbon Management Now Needs Product Data Infrastructure
Carbon management is moving from reporting into delivery. The bottleneck is whether product, material and supplier evidence can move through design, procurement and project systems at the same speed.
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Hutton Stone and the Stone Demonstrator: Building the Case for Structural Stone
Hutton Stone contributes to the Stone Demonstrator, showcasing how structural stone can reduce embodied carbon while rethinking modern construction systems.
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The Most Interesting Brick Products with EPDs on the 2050 Materials Platform
This collection brings together a range of bricks with EPDs listed on the 2050 Materials Platform. They include earth-based bricks, handcrafted bricks, clay bricks, reclaimed bricks, reused clinker bricks, and other specialty brick products.
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A Climate Tech Map for Construction Products
118 technologies · 16 categories · One verified database. Where the innovation is, who is delivering it, and how close it is to your next specification.
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The 2026 Surface Revolution: A Global Briefing
Bans, tariffs, and billion-dollar verdicts are reshaping the surfacing industry. Here's what designers and fabricators need to know about the 2026 shift away from high-silica engineered stone.
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How the Digital Product Passports Bring (Building) Material Passports Into Reality
The EU's Digital Product Passport regulation provides all three simultaneously. A legal mandate across 27 member states. Standardised, machine-readable data requirements defined in law. And a market consequence with real teeth: no compliant passport, no EU market access. The tool hasn't changed. The conditions around it have.
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The Senso Six: Seamless Surfaces, Circular by Design
Through a portfolio of seamless flooring systems based on biobased resins and mineral aggregates, Senso UK enables architects and contractors to deliver continuous surfaces that support both design freedom and responsible material sourcing.
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The Data Center Boom: Why Sustainable Construction Must Keep Pace with Digital Demand
The global data center boom is accelerating fast and the construction industry needs to keep up sustainably. As companies invest nearly $7 trillion in digital infrastructure through 2030, embodied carbon in concrete, steel, and MEP systems is becoming one of the most critical and overlooked levers for emissions reduction. Here's what the numbers say, what industry leaders are doing, and why EPD-verified material data is essential for building responsibly at scale.
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