Sustainable Solutions Guide

Investing in a Better Tomorrow – for Our Community and Families

As a manufacturer of building products, it is essential for SOPREMA to act by promoting sustainable development and to contribute to the future of both current and future generations. To achieve this, SOPREMA has developed sustainable solutions aimed at:

Extending the service life of buildings
Extending the overall performance of buildings
Increasing the resilience of buildings
Ensuring the health and comfort of occupants

With that in mind, we have developed a Sustainable Solutions Guide. This tool gathers all our products and systems that promote green buildings offered by SOPREMA in the U.S. This guide is intended for construction professionals concerned about improving their way of designing, constructing, transforming, and renovating buildings and infrastructure.

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THEMES AND ISSUES

This guide covers more than 18 sustainable development issues and challenges that are addressed under the following four themes:

SUSTAINABILITY

Warranties
Resurfacing, recovering, and repairing
Green building certifications
Built heritage
Transparency – EPDs and HPDs
Renewable energies

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Energy efficiency – Building envelope
Water management
Urban heat islands
Air pollution

QUALITY OF LIFE

Thermal comfort – Building envelope
Acoustic comfort – Soundproofing
Indoor air quality
Space optimization

NATURE

Bio-sourced materials
Biodiversity
Biophilia
Food production
Aesthetics

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COMMITMENT TO QUALITY FROM THE BEGINNING

Our commitments fall under three areas that align our strategies and make sustainable development a reality.

Environmental Protection

Limiting the impact of our products throughout their life cycles contributes to environmental protection.
Creating a circular economy protects the environment by limiting the impacts of the company’s products throughout their life cycle, strengthening biodiversity and intelligently using resources, energy, raw materials and recycling.

PEOPLE FIRST

Protecting public health and well-being by improving quality of life at one or more stages of the product life cycle.
SOPREMA puts people at the heart of its strategy, where working conditions, training, respect and trust are vital to engaged employees and the key to innovation and long-term growth.

BUILDING TOMORROW

Offering eco-friendly building envelop products help address the issues of sustainable construction and energy efficiency.
Fully aware of the constant population growth in urban environments, SOPREMA offers practical solutions (systems, products, etc.) to help develop more environmentally friendly and more livable buildings.

WHAT IS A SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION?

Sustainable solutions are initiatives based on the will to durably and systematically solve several environmental, social, and economic challenges without negatively impacting future generations.

Extending the service life of the buildings

Extending the overall performance of the buildings

Increasing the resilience of the buildings

Ensuring the health and comfort of the occupants

TRANSPARENCY AND PRODUCT DISCLOSURES

Sustainable Minds Transparency Catalog

Sustainable Minds Transparency Catalog is a published resource that offers full transparency on SOPREMA’s product performances, reports and specs.

HPDs

A Health Product Declaration (HPD) aims to communicate information about the effects a product may have on the health of individuals. It requires disclosing all of the ingredients of a product and includes health risk assessment based on public databases.

CERTIFICATIONS

EPDs

An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) provides information regarding a product’s impact on various environmental factors. It usually summarizes the results of life cycle analysis (LCA) metrics in accordance with the requirements of ISO 14040 Standard.

GREENGUARD

Products that have achieved GREENGUARD Certification are scientifically proven to meet some of the world’s most rigorous third-party chemical emissions standards, helping to reduce indoor air pollution and the risk of chemical exposure.

LEED

The LEED® certification is awarded according to a scorecard system aimed at granting credits pertaining to several sustainable development issues relating to a building.

BIM

Building Information Models (BIMs) are the process of creating and managing 3D, 4D, and 5D information for a construction project across multiple disciplines. SOPREMA is proud to offer easy access to this data.