by Rebecca Walker — February 19, 2010—The Green Roundtable/NEXUS launched the Green Product Association (GPA) to advance the sustainability of building products and help manufacturers promote their products.
The GPA says its main aim is to bring sustainability to all of the products used in buildings and make those products’ performance criteria and metrics transparent and available to anyone.
Founding members of the GPA include Xerox, CBC Flooring, Jandris & Sons and Bostik. UL Environment has teamed up with the GPA to bring in its trusted third-party product certification services.
The Green Roundtable/NEXUS, a non-profit focused on mainstreaming sustainable design, developed the GPA as an outgrowth of its Green Building Resource Center. The association was also partly inspired by a survey NEXUS conducted last year, in which the majority of its 16,000 building industry subscribers said that the main issue affecting their ability to make informed decisions about products was “access to unbiased product information.”
