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Verify Sustainability

As building owners and the public continue to embrace—and demand—sustainable construction, it's up to the construction industry to produce materials that will be used for environmentally friendly homes and buildings. The roofing industry, in particular, is producing recycled, biodegradable and sustainable components for roof structures, decks and coverings.

With the continued trend toward construction that helps minimize detrimental environmental effects and support the built environment's sustainability, construction industry professionals are beginning to look for objective evidence to verify claims about products' sustainability. Roofing contractors who install sustainable roof systems must have a reliable method to determine whether the roofing materials they select truly are sustainable. To address this need, in late 2008, the International Code Council's (ICC's) subsidiary, ICC Evaluation Service (ICC-ES), introduced the Sustainable Attributes Verification and Evaluation (SAVE) Program. more>>