Slate Reports at NSC Website
The reports, made available today, are the latest in a series of life-cycle inventories, developed in partnership with the University of Tennessee’s Center for Clean Products (CCP).
The life-cycle inventory (LCI) on slate joins a series that offers an environmental profile of natural-stone industry operations by providing an estimate of embodied energy, water consumption and material resource utilization per ton of stone extracted and produced, as well as identification of areas of improvement.
The one-page fact sheets, now including slate, provide information on a stone’s natural formation, region(s) of deposits worldwide, physical properties, applicable ASTM standards, as well as environmental and human health considerations.
Slate is the fifth stone profiled by the NSC. Life-cycle inventories and fact sheets are available for granite, limestone and sandstone; a fact sheet for marble is also offered. The online reports are available, along with other industry information, here.
A comprehensive life-cycle assessment comparing stone to other types of cladding materials will be available this fall.
“The NSC listened to our colleagues in design and architecture regarding the information they wanted when considering natural stone for projects,” said John Mattke, chairman of the NSC’s Sustainability Committee. “Our LCI data sets and material fact sheets enable us to fulfill their expectations and further establish Genuine Stone® as a green building material through our research. Adding this data to our online library continues to allow anyone seeking credible information about natural stone to access it at no cost.”
The NSC is a collaborative organization representing business and trade associations serving the natural-stone industry.